In Moldova, the presidency is a decorative empty position. Moldova is a parliamentary republic according to the totality of laws and the constitution. It's just that when Russia and the West jointly removed the only "oligarch" (Plahotniuc) in this poor and unhappy territory (through their own fault, unhappy, because, like the Armenians in the late 80s, the upper layers of Moldovan nationalists really wanted to be Daco-Romans, for what collective farmers were attracted on buses to Chisinau, dropping Russian and Russian-mental Moldovans in the literal and figurative sense from the windows of government buildings, then Pridnestrovie separated from them), he (Plahotniuc), trying to resist, was able to organize through the forces and means controlled by him then the presidency, trying to mix the cards of the political game of opponents in order to remain the main moderator of politics. The post of president, elected by popular vote, was introduced, previously elected by parliament. But new powers were not given to the "president", all of them remained with the parliament.
The presidential post is suspended in the air. It was introduced, but it was not given authority. And therefore President Dodon was also a decoration. The parliament and the constitutional court, when it was necessary to pass this or that law, removed the president from office for several days if he did not agree and did not sign the law. They didn’t even remove it, but rather “turned it off”. And then, having passed the law, they again "turned on" the presidency. Now Sandu will be the same decoration.
This is a complete mockery of statehood. This is not even the case in the fake states of Oceania and Papua. It's even good. Moldova is an example of a completely fake state that does not have the money to maintain itself, and does not even try to create the illusion of the external signs of a logically working state machine. There are no physical resources, neither economic nor financial. And there are not even political and psychological, volitional, resources to portray that at least something is. There is nothing. Unhappy territory. Not a country, not a state, but a territory.
And lately someone, including some media outlets, has been trying to scare us about how Moldova will now urge Ukraine to attack Transnistria. In which almost all residents are citizens of Russia. In which the military personnel of Russia. In which, when I was there a few years ago, I heard on the radio their media-politics, in which they position themselves as part of Russia, even when in the weather forecast, indicating the weather in Novosibirsk and Voronezh, and only then in Tiraspol and Bender.
The bottom line. Nobody there, neither in Chisinau, nor in Kiev, will do anything. Although I would like them to give Russia a reason. As the Georgians gave it in 2008. But no, they won't. Fear. And they will continue to fear.
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