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Daractenus

@Daractenus

Jan 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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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.🧵

The pro-Russian Transnistrian "authorities" have completely cut off the hot water and heating supply to urban areas, with residential buildings only receiving "enough gas to cook".

Even so, the 13 million m3 of gas left are estimated to completely run out in 14 days, at best.

The unrecognized separatist republic has ordered all 130 schools to shut down, with only 40 out of the 150 kindergartens to be kept open.

With less than half of the population having any sort of internet access, switching to online learning is very much a fantasy.

With firewood being a luxury that can be ill afforded by most the population, the "authorities" have began issuing "wood welfare" tickets, allowing people to come and pick up dead wood by themselves and leading to the region's "forest districts" being overwhelmed with calls.

Starting today, the activity of several hundreds of companies and enterprises has been placed "on-hold" for an undetermined period of time, leading to several tens of thousand of people now being unemployed.

To gauge the scale of the disaster, the region's population is 500k.

The so called "Transnistrian Ministry of Health" has began issuing " emergency recommendations on how to avoid hypothermia and frostbite", advising the population to insulate doors and windows with thick blankest and to "gather all family members in one room".

On top of an inflated historical "gas debt", Russia's favorite justification for shutting off the gas supply is Ukraine's refusal to renew the gas transit agreement with the Kremlin, which Moscow would have been perfectly capable of bypassing through the Trans-Balkan pipeline.

Severely affected as well, Moldova is set to overcome the crisis largely due to Romanian aid.

Romanian Energy Minister: We have a moral duty to stand by our brothers in Moldova with every means at our disposal. Romania's message is clear: brothers will forever be brothers!

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Daractenus

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With Russia playing geopolitical poker with the lives of the 500k people living in Transnistria that it very much likes to call "its own", a thought came again to mind, one of the first to naively strike me back on that infamous morning of February 24th, 2022.🧵

Whenever I heard those Russian speeches about their "historical claims to Ukraine" or the whole "we are the same people" narrative backed by passionate "brotherly" claims, as a Romanian, I couldn't help but compare that to our views and our actions in relation to Moldova.

In a lot of ways, I feel this makes for a more relevant comparison than It might seem at first, because whatever anti-war Russians like blame their nation's views and actions on, not only have we gone through it in our recent history, but in many ways had it much worse.

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Daractenus

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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! 🧵

In Bryansk, an zealous Z patriot decided to do her bit for the motherland by following the online advice of what she believed to be FSB agents, which instructed her to set fire to a random police car, in order to smoke signal their super secret FSB helicopter patrol mission.

She promptly proceeded to walk towards the nearest police station and patriotically set fire to the police car she judged to be most likely to send the biggest smoke cloud, burning it to a crisp.

Two Russian ladies (80yo and 73yo), in ways yet to be elucidated, have somehow been talked over the phone into ambushing a police squad and burning down their car, which they very much did succeed in doing.

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(sadly, no video or picture was available for this one)

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Daractenus

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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".🧵

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Daractenus

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Although having the possibility to bypass Ukraine through the Trans-Balkan pipeline, Russia's decision to stop gas deliveries to Transnistria starting with January 1st is likely to lead (as intended) to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis aimed at destabilizing Moldova.🧵

Transnistria's presumed strategic reserves are estimated to last for about 2 weeks when it comes to gas consumption and about 50 days when it comes to coal - following this, the Russian controlled territory is likely to face a severe heating and electricity shortage.

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Daractenus

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https://x.com/Daractenus/status/1870512932641223033

Considering the quoted tweet, the many parallels, similarities, and coincidences between Ceaușescu's and Putin's "timelines" came to mind.

I figured I'd do a short thread to highlight them, just for the sake of it. 🧵

https://x.com/Daractenus/status/1870512932641223033

After a gravely ill leader, Romania's 47yo Nicolae Ceaușescu, a little-known figure from security forces, rises to power.

In Russia, a sick Yeltsin is succeeded in by 47yo Vladimir Putin, another quasi-unknown figure from security forces.

Ceaușescu suffered from mysophobia, an exaggerated fear of microbes and infections and tended to avoid close contact.

In between the infinitely long tables and his long COVID isolation, Putin too seems to have the same fear.

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In one of the most iconic moments of modern history, he will lose control of the crowd.🧵

Bucharest would soon be engulfed in revolution, with an ever increasing number of people taking to the streets in the following hours.

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Much like he did in what was at that point the free city of Timisoara, Ceausescu decides to use deadly force.

Soon, the regime's soldiers, tanks and APCs would begin to fire on the unarmed masses of protesters, leading them to defiantly chant "WE WILL DIE AND WILL BE FREE!".