Because it remains important to show the world what Russia looks like, the country that continues to spent hundreds of millions of dollars every night trying to freeze and terrorize the Ukrainian population, I have compiled a "best of" from my guides through Russia's cities.🧵

This man is clinically insane. Not an exaggeration.

Spain and France have now joined Britain and Germany in asking the European Commission to open an investigation into Elon Musk under EU's DSA, openly (and rightfully might I add) accusing him of spreading misinformation and interfering in European politics.

Seeing how the USA now hellbent on emulating their newfound ally of Russia, both at home and abroad, I find myself obliged to repost my dive into Russia's posh cities, just to give your average MAGA a glimpse into the greatness Trump is sure to bring about! Do enjoy!🧵

Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced on Friday that they will be completely withdrawing from Twitter, as a result of Elon Musk's "discussion" with far-right AfD's Alice Weidl.

I'm increasingly struggling to understand the lack of reaction coming from non-Maga Americans. If a president tried doing in Romania what Trump is now doing in the US, half the country would take to the streets that same day. Same goes for most if not all European countries.

The pro-Trump "free speech enthusiast" owner of this platform decided to just delete the viral anti-Trump ad I posted I few days ago (and replaced it with a "This Post was deleted by the Post author" message). So here it is again Elon, enjoy!

Musk's mother, who it turns out is every bit as evil as she looks, is on Twitter (@mayemusk) and apparently fuming over people burning or not buying Teslas and daring to criticize that vile fascist she calls son.

Meet our Nicusor Dan, the new President of Romania. Genius IQ, twice winner of the math olympiad, both times with perfect scores, PhD in Math at France's Sorbonne and all round a soft spoken, hard working, decent man!

Former President of Romania (Traian Basescu): "That butcher in the White House is knowingly weakening Ukraine's defensive capacities in order for Putin to strike cities and critical infrastructure without warning".

This evening, Maia Sandu, the pro-EU president of Moldova, delivered an unprecedented address to the nation following today’s large-scale arrests of pro-Russian agents across the country: "In all solemnity, I have to inform you that the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and future of our country are in grave and immediate danger. The Kremlin has spent hundreds of millions in an attempt to destabilize and spread violence and fear across the Moldova. I am addressing all loyal citizens: do not permit the surrender of our country. [...] Russia is not acting alone, they have many accomplices here in Moldova, traitors to their homeland that will sell it for a profit, as they have done before. These men don't have a country, they don't believe in Europe or in Russia, they believe in nothing but money. [...]" The Kremlin believes that we are all for sale, that we are too small and few to resist, that we're not even a country. But Moldova is a country and is our home and we will defend it. [...]"

Hungary, right now, anti-Orban protest:

Thousands of people are flooding Bucharest tonight with Romanian and EU flags, with the crowd surging in size every few minutes, to chant and tell the world that Russian attempts be damned, Romania is Europe, now & always!

In the eyes of a schizophrenic reader, yes, he does.

There's just something deeply sickening in seeing the nation accounting for 25% of the global economy, despite having just 4% of the population, claim they've been ripped off by the men and women working themselves to the bone for $3 a day in Lesotho and Cambodia.

Starting with 7AM, January 1st, 2025, Ukraine will block the transit of Russian gas. Best of luck to these two!

You can almost grasp the Italian for "I will personally unplug his life support one day" just by looking at Meloni's face.

For the sake of making myself as unlikable as possible with the MAGA community, to whatever extent MAGA is still a thing or a community right now, I've decided to do a short thread tackling the most common misconceptions they seem to have about Europe.🧵

Zelensky: "We will not sign the contract with Russia regarding the continuation of the transit of gas through Ukraine. This is the end!"

During the recent Vietnam visit, given Russia's vast experience on the topic, Putin graciously offered to assist Vietnam in building "smart cities" and urban infrastructure. Inspired by it, I made a list of posh Russian cities you should consider for your next travel abroad.🧵

This woman is 100% a Russian agent.

This is one of those rare weeks in history when decades happen. Spare a thought for Ukraine, Georgia, Syria and Romania.

In about four hours, after more than 300 consecutive days of protests and just as many consecutive days of regime brutality, people from all across Georgia are heading en masse towards the capital city for a demonstration intended to be a peaceful revolution. Russia can and must be defeated in Georgia! Good luck brave people!

OTD 35 years ago, Ceaușescu delivered what would become his final speech, addressing 100k people forcibly gathered there so he could stage a facade of popular support for his regime. In one of the most iconic moments of modern history, he will lose control of the crowd.🧵

Do enjoy however many Canadian friends this comment is about to make you, tough guy!

Seeing how every single pro-Russian/MAGA propagandist on this platform is tweeting furiously and having an absolute meltdown over us banning Georgescu is just delicious. Defeat tastes bitter, doesn't it? Enjoy you bastards! Cheers from Romania!

Romanians are taking to the streets in various cities across the country to send a clear message to the openly fascist pro-Russian candidate: "better dead than fascist". Expect these demonstrations to spread and grow exponentially every day until round 2 of the election.

Over 100k people are protesting right now in Belgrade, asking Kremlin puppet Aleksandar Vučić to step down.

Article 5 has been invoked only once, in the wake of 9/11. Every single NATO member answered America's call. To whatever MAGA needs reminding, here's how many lives your allies have lost, fighting by your side: UK: 457 Canada: 159 France: 90 Germany: 62 Italy: 53 Poland: 44 Denmark: 43 Spain: 35 Romania: 27 Netherlands: 25 Turkey: 15 Czech Republic: 14 Norway: 10 Estonia: 9 Hungary: 7 Sweden: 5 Latvia: 4 Slovakia: 3 Finland: 2 Portugal: 2 Albania: 1 Belgium: 1 Bulgaria: 1 Croatia: 1 Lithuania: 1 Montenegro: 1

Enough is enough. As much as I feel for the so many anti-Orban Hungarians, for our very own sake and survival, Hungary cannot be allowed to remain a NATO and EU member. If there's no legal path for it, make one. Enough half-measures. Kick. Hungary. Out.

‼️In what might be catastrophic news for Romania, for Ukraine and Europe in general, in the first round of the Romanian Presidential Election, an almost completely unknown individual somehow managed to win some 16-18% of the votes (for now, still counting and still growing every minute) and might actually end up qualifying for round 2. This man does not belong to any party (thus no party machinery to back him), no vast fortune to fund his campaign that we know of and has a face and name not even 1 in 50 Romanians would have recognized 1 month ago while his score tonight was not predicted by any pollster, even remotely. As I'm writing this, probably every third Romanian just discovered, upon googling the guy, that he is openly pro-Russian, openly and unapologetically pro-Iron Guard (Romanian WW2 fascist movement), violently anti-NATO, anti-EU and an all round terrifying monster of a man (all views which he kept hidden during his "campaign"). I am absolutely convinced, as is everyone else here tonight, that this man is a Russian asset and his meteoric rise from 0% to God knows how much, could not be explained in any other way but by a massive and unprecedented Russian interference.

Has Elon Musk ever criticized Putin, Xi Jinping or any other dictator and autocrat out there for that matter? I'm starting to suspect his very concerned tweets of condamnation are restricted solely to the leaders of Western democracies.

For the sake of better understanding the inner workings of the "mysterious Russian soul", I've compiled a long list of polls which, put together, make for a rather compelling image, one that I hope will dismiss the idea of the "silent majority of the good Russian people". 🧵

This morning's events are yet another absolute shock for the Russians still holding the childish belief that they will get to bomb everyone and nobody is going to bomb them. Massive drones attacks have hit 6 Russian regions (Moscow, Kursk, Tula, Voronezh, Belgorod and Nizhny Novgorod). The Lukoil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod, the biggest refinery of the Lukoil Group - responsible for about 5% of the total Russian refining capacity, has been critically hit. Ukraine has been increasingly degrading the Russian energy sector, the backbone of their economy, for the past several months. Cracks are forming...

BREAKING: The Romanian Electoral Commission has banned the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu from running!

With 201 votes for and 100 votes against, all 100 coming from the parties that support the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu, Romania's Chamber of Deputies has finally passed the law permitting the Romanian Armed Forces to shoot down Russian drones entering Romania's airspace.

Jokes aside, Trump's birthday parade really achieved some Belarus levels of cringe.

F16s will arrive soon. With Sweden finally in NATO, so will Gripens. Taurus will come, with or without Scholz. The Czech shells are days away, EU military industries are moving to war production. The French are going full Napoleon. Russia will lose. Take it to the bank.

With Russian ships sabotaging our cables and getting themselves sunk all over, I figured I'd do a thread on arguably the greatest feat of incompetence in Russian naval history. This is going to be a TLDR of the utterly idiotic voyage of Russia's "Second Pacific Squadron".🧵

The Romanian Senate has now passed the law allowing the Romanian Armed Forces to shoot down Russian drones violating Romanian airspace. The law should reach be reaching the Romanian President shortly and come into full effect in the coming days.

In what is a miraculous turn of events, by a margin of just 0.02%, Elena Lasconi (the most pro-West/pro-Ukraine candidate) managed to secure the second place in the first round of the presidential election and will be facing the guy planted by Russia in round 2.

When the pro-Russians "won" in Georgia, it took Orban 0.1 seconds to congratulate them. Few hours later, he was on a plane bound for Georgia to congratulate them in person. Let's see how long it takes him now to congratulate Maia Sandu for defeating the pro-Russian candidate.😅

Time so say it openly, Elon Musk is at war with Europe.

There's just something poetic about Ukraine blocking the transit of Russian oil towards Hungary, a country that's been blocking the transit of all military aid (of which they themselves supplied none) towards Ukraine. I thinks the part where Orban starts to find out has began.

Pete Hegseth decided to wear a Russian tricolor flag tie at to the White House meeting with President Zelensky. I don't believe for a second this is accidental or that "he was actually wearing the colors of the US flag". For once, Hegseth knew very well what he was doing.

Per exit-polls, following an election that saw the highest voter turnout in almost 3 decades, the pro-EU Nicusor Dan crushed the pro-Russian Simion and will be the next president of Romania!

While a romantic sunset, sunrise or the sun in general is not something you're likely to experience in Norilsk - a city that fields a beautiful bi-annual Biblical plague when the local river runs red with pollution, is one for sure bound to go straight to your heart. And lungs.

She will spend the next 15 years of her life in a Russian prison for having donated $52 to a Ukrainian charity. Ksenia Karelina is her name and as far as I'm concerned, she has done more to end this nightmare than all the fucking "heroes" of "Russian opposition" put together.

Vladimir Plahotniuc, the fugitive Moldovan oligarch that stole about 12% of Moldova’s GDP and was sanctioned by the EU for attempts to destabilize and threaten the territorial integrity of both Moldova and Ukraine, has been brought back to Moldova in chains today.

In all seriousness, this man is clinically insane.

There seems to be a breakthrough in Belgorod and there are lots of UA helicopters landing troops in the area. Grab a coffee, this will be an interesting night. Turns out this might not be just another incursion into Belgorod.

The pro-Russian George Simion is debating the pro-EU Nicusor Dan right now and it is one hell of a debate to watch. Not only did Simion just melt his lead today, but I think he might have just lost the elections.

This is one of the most respected Romanian journalists.

In what I believe might be one of the most satisfying pieces of news you'll be reading today, the Moldovan authorities (I'm guessing with some outside help) managed to get substantial information on the Promsviazbank - one of the banks used by the Russians to mass purchase votes in order to influence the Moldovan elections. To get a sense of the scale of what Russians attempted to do here, the amount of votes purchased (at least through this bank) amounts to 138k, meaning roughly 9% of the total votes cast in this election. The total suspected number goes as high as 300k votes, when accounting for all the other banks and means used by the Russians. Because getting a wire transfer right now from a sanction Russian might just be the worse way to go about doing this, the Moldovan authorities were apparently able to identify all the 138k people that have sold their votes. The first 400 of the bunch have already been fined with about $1500 each, roughly 10 times the sum of money they sold their vote for. The "recruiters" and "heads" of this operation have also been identified and are looking at ample "me time" to reconsider their choices in all the comfort a Moldovan prison can pamper you in.

Having a Romanian car beat Tesla to a pulp does feel incredibly satisfying, following Musk's incessant meddling in our elections.

Famous world-wide for having its acclaimed post-apocalyptic urban scenery depicted in various TV shows, and more recently for having God attempt to whack it with an asteroid, Chelyabinsk is guaranteed to give you the zombie apocalypse experience you always dreamt of.

BREAKING: The European Commission gave TikTok a 24-hour ultimatum to send all information regarding Călin Georgescu's campaign.

If you need one for this, it won't do you any good I'm afraid.

Given how Musk, USA and Russia have now united their effort in helping an insane man become president in my country, I figured it is very relevant to show and remind everyone just how crazy Calin Georgescu is, through his very own words.

In less than 48 hours, Moldova will stand before one of the most significant sets of elections in its history, a day which in all likelihood, will finally and definitely see the country truly break away from Russia: a referendum to inscribe EU accession into its very constitution, alongside a very crucial presidential election. According to the polls, both the EU referendum as well as the pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu (current president), stand to win overwhelming victories, and just to add to the legitimacy, those victories will probably be won with a massive voter turnout (estimated to go as high as 75%), all while the pro-Russian candidates stand to register crushing defeats. Knowing it essentially stands to "lose" Moldova for good, Russia has been burning through all the means at its disposable to prevent and if needed overturn the result of this election: from economic pressure and propaganda, to very direct military threats aimed at frightening the population into submission and outright flying-in Wagner mercenaries and training pro-Russian individuals willing to stage a coup. Despite everything, this small nation of not even 3 million souls and limited economic means, with one separatist and one autonomous region both controlled by Moscow, a country that was totally dependent on Russian gas pre-2022 and one that has Russian troops on its very soil, survived it all and stands to serve Russia a defeat which will echo far beyond Moldova.

Horatiu Potra, the fugitive pro-Russian mercenary leader that attempted to violently overthrow Romania's constitutional order, has been arrested in Dubai alongside his son. Both of them are soon to be brought back to Romania where they face up to 25 years in prison.

Having "Leave" as the most common answer to the "Things to do in..." question, Magnitogorsk's mix of local dishes is widely recommended as an excellent way to encourage hair loss, while a dip in the local river is equally advised to those looking to possibly acquire superpowers.

Sporting several new strains of yet undiscovered hepatitis , Chita's public sanitation system and the city's vast array of culinary delights are guaranteed to take dysentery to a whole new level and make for a truly incurable experience you will not easily forget.

Despite having spent an amount roughly equal to 1.5% of Moldova's GDP trying to interfere in this election, I have the feeling the Russians are about to get crushed tonight. This wonderful woman is shaping up to be one of the most effective and capable leaders in Europe.

What most would consider an insignificant piece of news, one of the so many that get lost, will forever stay with me. OTD 2 years ago, shortly after the Russian invasion started, the residents from Pietroasa (Romania), a tiny and impoverished mountain village of 300 souls - most of them elderly, decided to help Ukraine with whatever little they had. No NGO or humanitarian organization told them to. They didn't have to. Nobody had much money to spare, but as pretty much everyone keeps a little garden to supplement their necessities, they did have potatoes. So that's what they stared with and gathered 1.5 tons of potatoes! Then each household donated whatever other non-perishable items they had around, which amounted to about 2 tons of flour, rice, cooking oil and various cans. And sweets, sweets for the Ukrainian children... The problem remained actually sending it to Ukraine, so they went and looked around and very soon, a van owning volunteer from a nearby town decided to do his bit. For every vile, wicked, hateful voice out there bent on bringing misery and suffering, there's hundreds of people like this. For the sake everything good and kind, Russia will not win this war.

Thank you Vladimir, we were all holding our breath here, eager to hear the latest edition of "What the West must do for Russia!". But no Vladimir, there won't be a clean slate, there won't be a start anew this time, not with us, not again. Once that collapse arrives, and someday it will, there won't be any "reconstruction funds" coming, there won't be any armies of "Western" volunteers crowdfunding aid for Russians like we do for Ukraine, there'll be no donations and no open arms extended. For a very long time to come, even those sympathetic presidents and chancellors which you will occasionally find, won't be able to give you that, because in the process of doing it, they'll be committing political suicide. The unspeakable atrocities committed by hundreds of thousand of Russians, cheered on by tens of millions of other Russians, is imprinted in the minds of this generation, which will imprint it into the minds of the next, which in turn will do the same to the one that will follow. We don't want to integrate Russia, we don't care much anymore for whatever new version of hell Russia will inevitably descent next into, just like it did every single other time. What we do want is to see Russia isolated and evicted out of Ukraine, and Georgia, and Moldova and every other place the Russian cancer managed to reach. What we do want, is to see your Russian empire so militarily and economically devastated by this war it started, that you will tremble in fear at the idea of waging another war again.

The streets of Romania are erupting in celebration tonight!

With Russia cutting off the gas supply in an attempt to destabilize Moldova ahead of its 2025 parliamentary elections (a last ditch effort after the pro-EU Maia Sandu won a second presidential term), Transnistria is quickly spiraling into a full blown humanitarian crisis.🧵

Tried my best to make sense of your comment and I couldn't, so cut the patronizing nonsense and educate us then perhaps, since you alone seem to hold the answers.

BREAKING: The Romanian Supreme Council of National Defense just decided to give mission commanders the authority to down any military aircraft entering Romanian airspace, while the decision to down civilian aircrafts entering illegally will remain with the Minister of Defense.

With the impending Russian made humanitarian crisis in Transnistria bound to increasingly make its way into the news, I figured I'd do a short thread on the history of the place to offer a bit of a context, inevitably also touching on the history of Moldova and Romania.🧵

Worth keeping in mind that, for the most part, the online fan base of your country's right-wing party is probably tweeting from Karachi, Mumbai, or Chelyabinsk.

When you see Musk's attempts to promote a pro-Russian lunatic as president of Romania, don't go thinking he's attacking us just cause that's what happened to randomly catch his attention. While this might come as a surprise, Romania plays a crucial role in Europe right now. 🧵

Meet our Nicusor Dan, the man who'll run against the pro-Russian hooligan Simion. Genius IQ, twice winner of the math olympiad, both times with perfect scores, PhD in Math at France's Sorbonne and all round a soft spoken, decent man!

Tonight. Bucharest. Romania. Europe!

When the hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers return home, and they inevitably will at some point, completely void of whatever sensitivity was there to begin with and very much used to killing people for $2000 a month, you won't get them again to work 10h shifts in a factory for $300 a month and refrain from doing what you've taught them to do. When this war ends, and it will someday, much like it happened to almost every other country that fine-tuned their entire society and economy to fight a war and then suddenly found themselves without a war to fight, there will be a blow-back. You'll feel it in your economy, you'll feel it on your streets and you'll feel it in your homes. When Putin and his circle of power dies, and they will, they all will, no matter how excellent of a medical care they afford, you'll understand why handing all power to a handful of men, unbound by any rules or structures, is something that other half of humanity, the one you so bitterly hate and mock, fought so hard to rid themselves of. When his nightmare ends for Ukraine - which have no doubt will sooner then you expect, the true nightmare will start for Russia, and you've made bloody sure there will be nobody able or willing to save you from yourselves this time.

On average, in August, 6% of Russia's refining capacity was out of action. In early September, it averaged 18% while on September 28th, nearly 40% of it was out. The rate this is going, Ukraine is about to make Russia hit every climate goal by Christmas.

Take a second to contemplate the absurdity of it. That's 17 million sq. km. And they still need more land. And are willing to die and kill for it. What for? What will you do with more land you fools? At least finish building indoors plumbing in the one you have first..

The fact that the Russian stock market booms minutes after every single Trump–Putin conversation tells you all you need to know.

Diana Sosoaca and Victor Ponta, two of the main pro-Russian politicians that have backed Georgescu in his presidential bid, have now fled the country for Doha.

In a November poll, Orban's FIDESZ party is now being credited with only 36% (a drop of 3% in just 3 weeks), while the opposition TISZA party reached 47% of voting intentions. Fair to assume Orban's downfall is just a matter of time at this point. And not a lot of it..

It feels like tonight all of Romania has finally understood the existential danger we are facing. We will win!

What the fuck is wrong with this man?!

Unreal images from today's pro-EU march in Poland.

Hungary, ruled with an iron fist by Viktor Orban for 15 years at this point, is now officially the poorest nation of the European Union.

To whatever Americans need to see this, here's how it looks when a nation erupts in revolution.

Tulsi Gabbard. Director of National Intelligence. This is catastrophic. If you do not know who she is or quite how bad this is, think "covid came from Ukrainian bio-labs" level of bad.

With both countries finally in Schengen, time to tell the world about the impenetrable Romanian-Bulgarian border wall.

By popular demand, as promised, I compiled a short thread of the funniest and most absurd of Russia's recent arsons (with a bit of a bonus something at the end). Do enjoy! 🧵

As I've split my Russian cities "travel guide" into a myriad of different threads and posts, I've decided to finally gather them all in one place (mostly so I can have something to pin on my profile). Welcome to "Posh Russian cities - The Definitive Edition" 🧵

The pro-Russian Calin Georgescu has been detained and stands likely to be accused of actions against Romania's constitutional order, falsifying records regarding his campaign finances, public incitement to violence and establishment of an organization with a fascist character.

With its 200k inhabitants enjoying a life expectancy of 42 and having "life may be bad but at least it's short" as the unofficial motto, Dzerzhinsk is a must among worldwide chemical weapons enthusiasts, with popular tourist hotspots such as "The White Sea" and the "Black hole".

Some more images of how last night's win was celebrated throughout Romania.

Elon Musk has now began to give the Russians a helping hand in their attempt to take over Moldova.

Tens of thousands of Romanians (with the number is rapidly growing) have taken to the streets of Bucharest right now. People are chanting "Europe, we belong!" and, as heard in the video, a chant that roughly translates to "Russia, Romania will never be yours!".

With "My town and destiny" as its motto and often described as a "breath of fresh air" by its 70k proud inhabitants, the city of Asbest, possibly named after the absolutely gigantic open-air asbestos mine sitting right in the middle of it, is guaranteed to take your breath away.

Calin Georgescu's right-hand man and one of the leaders of paramilitary groups sympathetic to the Iron Guard, who had planned to incite violence in Romania last week, has just been arrested at a Bucharest airport while attempting to flee the country.