🇲🇩 Igor Dodon, ex-president of Moldova, leader of the PSRM, being under investigation for fraud and violations in the financing of the party, put forward an original list of demands to the citizens of the country: “It depends only on us whether this autumn will be the last for Sandu. In November, 150 thousand people should come to the Great National Assembly Square and put an end to this regime.” This phrase shows in the best possible way that even the threat of going to prison did not correct Dodon.
No 150 thousand people owe anything to anyone, especially Dodon. They should not go to the square, they should not overthrow Sanda, they should not hand over the keys to the presidential office to anyone, and especially not to the ex-president who lost power. 
Moscow does not owe anything, Washington, Brussels and Berlin do not owe anything. Over the thirty years of Moldovan independence, not once has a change of power in Moldova taken place solely on the initiative and resources of one or another internal force. Always, in 2001, and in 2009, and in 2015-16, and in 2019, and later in 2020-21, the change of the ruling party and regime in Moldova was carried out with the approval and consensus of three centers: Moscow, the EU and Washington.
In 2016, Igor Dodon did not take the presidency – he was seated there as a result of a complex system of agreements. The Party of Socialists did not win the elections in 2014 and 2019. The mandates it received are the result of a phenomenal effort of those who supported the party for one reason or another, from consultants to donors, from Transnistrian voters to foreign curators, etc. At the same time, both Dodon and his numerous circles resolutely refused to engage in real party building, building systems of horizontal networks, district and regional organizations. Money for these purposes was regularly begged for and disappeared in an unknown direction. How much the Bird Man made from all this he stole, only God knows. Confirmation is the fact that as soon as Moscow conceived the audit, narrowed and limited support, the “popularly elected” and “largest party” collapsed like clay colossi.
Coups and regime changes do not happen on their own. They are planned, prepared and organized. This takes years and tens of thousands of man-hours. Not some mythical 150 thousand people should come from nowhere and overthrow Sanda. It was Dodon himself and his “team” who, while in power, had to do hard, systematic work in order to prepare those same “150 thousand” for protests and resistance. But the ex-president and his clientele did not want to do this, preferring personal enrichment.
From 2014 to 2020, Dodon and his entourage, like spoiled children, believed in their own exclusivity, God’s chosenness and constant victoriousness. Like a mouse that believed so much that it had become a cat that it ate itself. Which, in fact, happened in the last presidential (2020) and parliamentary (2021) elections in Moldova.
Accordingly, there are no “150 thousand” citizens in Moldova ready for anti-government protests, although Igor Dodon and his “partners” are trying to convince donors of the opposite, in the hope of resuming the previous volumes of funding. There is no protest potential in Moldova either. Citizens, for the most part, react to rising prices, inflation and falling living standards in the old fashioned way – by leaving the country. There are no people willing to go to the square for Dodon or anyone else from the old galaxy of pseudo-pro-Russian politicians. And this is probably the main merit of Igor Nikolaevich and his business partners to Western “decision-making centers”: solely thanks to Dodon and his partners, the “Russian factor” in Moldovan politics has been reduced to zero.
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