In the first quote, he says that Romanians, "as we all know", aren't a nation, but "a lifestyle", paraphrasing Hruschev's quote from the early 1960s that "the мамалыжник aren't a nation, but a whore"

NB: Hruschev, who was paraphrasing Otto von Bismarck, of course.

This is a pretty sad situation indeed, as some Western EU countries would definitely like to stir some shit there

Holy shit, I called it:

Guvernatoarea Găgăuziei a fost reținută după ce Procuratura Anticorupție (PA) anunțase că a finalizat prezentarea probelor în cazul Evgheniei Guțul și a secretarei fostului Partid Șor, Svetlana Popan. Cele două sunt acuzate de complicitate la finanțarea ilegală a partidului politic, declarat neconstituțional în iunie 2023, și a unui concurent electoral din partea unui 'grup criminal organizat', scrie Agerpres.

Surely, the timing must be purely coincidental, just as well as the "illegal financing" gargle which is nowadays also a pretext for detaining people in the neighbouring country across the Prut.

The topper to this punchline would then be:

Statuia Reginei Maria, care o reprezintă în ziua încoronării de la Alba Iulia, a fost instalată în curtea unui liceu din centrul Chișinăului în data de 27 de martie, zi în care se împlinesc 107 ani de la unirea Basarabiei cu România.

So a Romania-RM union, when?

Let's leave our little country aside for a moment and move our mind's eye towards the core of the empire, the US and A: is it in their national interest to leave their southern border open to allcomers? and is it state policy to keep things as they are? well... I mean, each of these things definitely serves *some* interests, but I don't believe these have anything to do with anything as abstract as a "nation". American nowadays aren't a nation anymore, they're a population. Just like just about every Western peoples in existence. While the East, well, that's a whole other story.

The times of nations have now gone from the West and while the sad remains struggle to remain relevant, the world is being restructured into a feudal conglomerate which actually never went away. The modern state as an entity just came and went, as they say, or rather, it's just a tool nowadays.

Haha, brilliant! :D

> "Mămăligari", in Romanian. Not sure how this translates to English

Polenta-eaters? Polentists?

> after WW2 Romania provided war restitutions to all the parties involved

If I were to be mean, and I am, I'd say Romania provided the ultimate in war restitutions. The whole freakin' country was unofficially sold off to foreign interests, which is why, as you say, we haven't had any policy of our own for quite some time, neither external nor internal.