Hallelujah! There is good news from Europe at last:

The election in Moldova — viewed as a significant factor in the neutral country’s possible path to EU membership — has seen President Maia Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) walk away with a solid majority in Parliament.

Warning of “massive Russian interference” in the election, President Sandu has hammered home to her people the warning that the entire future of their country was at stake. And the party’s leader, Igor Grosu, said that their victory had been secured despite Russia’s having thrown “everything it had” into swinging the election toward the opposition. [Sarah Rainsford and Paul Kirby, BBC, September 29, 2025.]

Opposition leader Igor Dodon tried claiming victory before results had even come in, and called for protests outside Parliament on election day. But the protests were small, and the results — after 99.9% of the vote had been counted — were definitive: PAS had taken 50.17% of the vote, and Dodon’s pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc only 24.18%. [Id.]

Wedged between Ukraine and Romania, tiny, land-locked Moldova is strategically positioned as one of Russia’s potential next steps (after Ukraine) on its path to European expansion. What Vladimir Putin probably considers an easy mark from a military point of view has today proven itself a tougher political foe than he may have anticipated.

Three cheers for Moldova!

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/29/25