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00:00:43press investigation claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
00:00:46Netanyahu would have been warned about Hamas'
00:00:49plans. This will be the story of the week. At
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00:01:32contested in the streets on the
00:01:58An investigation published by the newspaper claims
00:02:00that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have been
00:02:04warned by the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin
00:02:07Zayed, 10 days before the October 7
00:02:10attack that Hamas was planning a major operation against
00:02:14Israel. Netanyahu claims it is a lie and an electoral
00:02:18attack. The opposition accuses him of treason.
00:02:21The legislative elections of October 27 are
00:02:24considered decisive, not only for the longest-serving Israeli
00:02:28prime minister, but also for the Middle
00:02:30East.
00:02:35Cătălin, therefore, the investigation by Haaretz journalists caused
00:02:38consternation and anger in Israel. Netanyahu would
00:02:42have been warned by the leader of the United Arab
00:02:45Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, 10 days before the October
00:02:497 attack that Hamas was planning a major operation against
00:02:52Israel. Netanyahu states that it is a lie and
00:02:55that he will sue the publication. A
00:02:58few days
00:03:00later, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal and again Haaretz reported
00:03:04that the head of the Egyptian Secret Services, Abbas
00:03:07Kamel, secretly traveled to Israel to warn
00:03:11Netanyahu again after previous warnings had remained
00:03:15ineffective. How credible is the
00:03:19information? Could it just be an attack in the electoral campaign
00:03:22currently taking place in Israel, against Netanyahu, as he
00:03:26claims? It can certainly be linked. and
00:03:30it is also linked to the campaign, because Netanyahu
00:03:33has enough political adversaries to instrumentalize
00:03:37such information and use it, which logically, anyone
00:03:41would do in an electoral campaign, but
00:03:44the information is quite credible, on the
00:03:48one hand we are talking about some publications that
00:03:51are among the most known and
00:03:53verified in international
00:03:57and Israeli journalism, Haaretz, although it is left-wing and
00:04:02it is a prestigious publication that has had a series of extremely
00:04:06serious investigations over time. On the other
00:04:09hand, this information has not
00:04:12been denied convincingly, so to speak, by the
00:04:16others involved in this whole story, Egypt has not
00:04:21denied it either. The United Arab Emirates said something like
00:04:25they don't comment, so they didn't confirm or
00:04:27deny it, which again
00:04:31suggests that Netanyahu would
00:04:34have indeed been warned,
00:04:38but we must take into account
00:04:41an aspect here, it is similar
00:04:43to the September 11
00:04:46attacks, it's the kind
00:04:49of information where you are told that something is being prepared, it
00:04:52was a specific one, on the date that Hamas would
00:04:56attack Israel in the following way, although. uh,
00:05:00this
00:05:03is the big problem related to October
00:05:067, including those data regarding the specific
00:05:10way in which the attack. was to take
00:05:13place, had reached
00:05:16the possession of Israeli officers, let's say, of
00:05:19Israeli services, of the Israeli army, long
00:05:23before, a year before, Netanyahu was warned, he received these
00:05:26general warnings about 10 days before and there were
00:05:29multiple ones, including from Egypt, but
00:05:33the services knew the plan, it was in their possession, they
00:05:36had given it a code name, the Wall
00:05:39of Jericho, approximately a... a year
00:05:43before, this is actually the story that is known
00:05:46in Israel, it became known almost immediately after the October
00:05:507 attacks, on the one hand they had come into possession of the plan, which was
00:05:53followed step by step, a plan of several tens of pages, which was
00:05:57followed step by step by Hamas when
00:06:00it attacked, a few months before
00:06:04the actual attack, they identified
00:06:06training by Hamas that
00:06:09matched what was written in... the PLA
00:06:13Why didn't they take these warnings seriously?
00:06:17Netanyahu, for example, apparently didn't even communicate after he was
00:06:20warned, he didn't communicate to his subordinates.
00:06:24Yes, Yoav Galant, the Minister of Defense, stated that Netanyahu never
00:06:28informed him or the Chief of Staff of the
00:06:32army about these warnings. And here there are several
00:06:36explanations, one that his
00:06:39opponents suggest. Some
00:06:43say it openly, but nothing
00:06:46has been proven in this regard, it
00:06:49is that he knew and let it happen,
00:06:52period, the second, which in my opinion
00:06:55is somewhat more plausible, is that even if
00:06:59these warnings existed, no one in
00:07:03the Israeli security establishment or almost no one
00:07:06believed that Hamas was really capable
00:07:09of carrying out such plans,
00:07:13they believed that they were very well controlled there in the Gaza Strip,
00:07:17Gaza was practically an area under siege,
00:07:20encircled, heavily militarized
00:07:23border, not just from yesterday, but for years, and there were numerous
00:07:26wars before in which Israel
00:07:30limited Hamas' ability to attack and they
00:07:33imagined, I think, that Hamas
00:07:37would not be capable from a military point of view to
00:07:41launch such an operation and after
00:07:44that, I think they thought, because there were other types
00:07:47of information, they thought that Hamas was not even interested
00:07:51at that moment? Opposition leader Air
00:07:54Lapid, former prime minister, says that Netanyahu knew months before
00:07:58October 7 that a violent eruption was taking
00:08:01shape, he says, the disaster could have been prevented,
00:08:05but the prime minister seemed bored when he was told about the dangers during
00:08:09the joint briefing. The paradox is that as early as
00:08:122023, a few days after the attack, the New York Times published an
00:08:16article claiming that Israeli military and intelligence
00:08:19officials had obtained this detailed
00:08:22plan, so not just a year ago regarding
00:08:25the October 7 attacks. And here
00:08:29the question arises and accusations also arise against this
00:08:32establishment you are talking about. Not only
00:08:34Netanyahu knew, perhaps, and did not
00:08:38do anything, but also the establishment. It was
00:08:41enough to... read the New York Times, the information has been
00:08:45public for a long time, now it has a
00:08:48much greater effect and weight, because it is about
00:08:51people who, as you said, neither confirmed
00:08:55nor denied from Egypt and the
00:08:59Arab Emirates. How can the return to this
00:09:02information after more than three years be explained? Because
00:09:05new data appeared, the initial data was
00:09:09that the security establishment had been informed.
00:09:12to a certain level and Netanyahu always
00:09:15denied it, this has been his strategy in these three years that have passed
00:09:19since then. Now the latest information that has come in
00:09:23this month is that on the contrary Netanyahu
00:09:27personally was warned that he was about
00:09:30to be attacked. We don't know if he
00:09:33also saw this plan, the Wall of Jericho,
00:09:37or it was just that general
00:09:40warning, but he didn't take any measures and beyond the fact
00:09:44that he didn't take concrete measures when Mohammed bin Zayed
00:09:48called, because after all, Israel
00:09:52controlled very well from an informational point of view, but not only did
00:09:55he not take measures to strengthen the border with
00:09:59Gaza then, but some time before
00:10:02the war in Gaza broke out,
00:10:05Israel, through the composition of the government, the last
00:10:09government that Netanyahu formed, the current government that
00:10:12depends on the extreme right and focused
00:10:15its attention on the Palestinian territories
00:10:19in the West Bank. Before the outbreak of the war
00:10:22on October 7, if we remember, it was... the most violent year
00:10:26in the West Bank, I think, in the last few decades, since the
00:10:30intifada, clearly, from multiple points of
00:10:33view, Palestinian protests, attacks by
00:10:36terrorist groups, some coordinated from Gaza and there are
00:10:39information, for example, that Netanyahu, in order
00:10:42to maintain the status quo in Gaza, refused
00:10:46the advice or exhortations
00:10:48of his people in the security apparatus,
00:10:52to eliminate the Hamas officials in Gaza who
00:10:56coordinated attacks in the West Bank, but also in
00:10:59the West Bank there was a serious
00:11:02increase, which has continued since then, in attacks by
00:11:05Jewish settlers against the Palestinian
00:11:08population, military operations, so some
00:11:12of the army was moved in the direction of the West
00:11:14Bank, which the extreme right,
00:11:18because here comes the explanation, the extreme right wants
00:11:21annexed by Israel, for them it is. extremely
00:11:25important the West Bank and then that's
00:11:28why Netanyahu focused
00:11:31his attention on the West Bank, believing
00:11:34that Gaza was secured. And because that brings
00:11:38him votes from the parties.
00:11:42Because here we already have another problem, that brings him
00:11:46political survival. Let's also think about the political
00:11:49situation in Israel when the war in Gaza broke out.
00:11:53Netanyahu was extremely
00:11:57one hand, but not only in the streets, he was
00:12:00contested even by reservists from the army, there
00:12:03were, if I'm not mistaken, even letters signed
00:12:06by air force reservists, the air force being the elite
00:12:10arm, the pride of the Israeli
00:12:13army, Netanyahu had legal
00:12:16problems that could
00:12:19become extremely complicated if he lost
00:12:22power, so Netanyahu had. to
00:12:26remain in power at that
00:12:29moment when the war in Gaza broke out and this has
00:12:33also been seen, there are numerous
00:12:37reports that a series of moments when he could
00:12:40have ended the conflict, after half a year, for example, were
00:12:44missed precisely because Netanyahu was
00:12:47faced with a choice between his political survival
00:12:51and the end of the war and the benefits that would have
00:12:55been brought to him as an image and his political legacy, because at
00:12:58one point, six months after the war in Gaza had broken out,
00:13:02when the destruction had not yet reached this
00:13:06scale as it is today, he could have made peace
00:13:10in Gaza and that would have also led to mutual
00:13:13recognition with Saudi Arabia, so practically you would have had peace in
00:13:16the Middle East, the continuation of the Abraham
00:13:20Accords, practically what has been pursued for decades
00:13:24there. but he was threatened by those on the extreme
00:13:27right, by Smotrich, if you do that, the next day you will be
00:13:31without a government and Netanyahu would have chosen
00:13:34the government. And in the meantime the conflict has expanded to
00:13:38Lebanon and Iran. Netanyahu again seems
00:13:42to have missed a great opportunity. It was a
00:13:44disaster for his image on October 7, so it was
00:13:48clear that the Israeli
00:13:51electorate would find him responsible, he couldn't really escape
00:13:55this responsibility, that the signs were missed.
00:13:58We are not even talking about intention here, simply
00:14:01negligence, if you will. So he would
00:14:04have paid for that. In the two years that passed until the summer of
00:14:082025, in the next two years, Netanyahu managed
00:14:12to make a remarkable comeback,
00:14:15winning the war in Gaza, as it happened with
00:14:19the terrible excesses that were committed there, because
00:14:23that territory was destroyed, not to mention the over 70,000
00:14:26dead, winning the war in Lebanon,
00:14:30practically eliminating a good part of the Hezbollah threat
00:14:34through several exceptional operations from the
00:14:38pager one to the elimination of Nasrallah and
00:14:41winning a war with Iran, the 12-day war
00:14:45in 2025, at that moment in June
00:14:482025 Netanyahu, I think, was
00:14:52again like in his good times in terms of. popularity, and
00:14:55Israel was doing extremely well
00:14:59in the region, it was the great power, hard to
00:15:02challenge, the mistake was when the other war with
00:15:06Iran began in 2026. On
00:15:08October 27, legislative elections will take place in Israel,
00:15:11they are decisive not only for Israel,
00:15:15but also for the Middle East, and
00:15:17for Netanyahu, who is the longest-serving prime minister of
00:15:21Israel. The Guardian documented the electorate's options
00:15:25and writes that those who support Netanyahu say he is the only one who
00:15:28can, I quote, finish the job in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and
00:15:32the West Bank. Those who criticize him and will
00:15:35not vote for him say he is guilty of October 7,
00:15:37of the permanent state of war and the economic crisis. October 7
00:15:41will count enormously in this
00:15:43election, but what could Israel look like if, for
00:15:47example, Netanyahu's opponent, who is now
00:15:51leading in the electorate's options in polls, the former
00:15:55head of the army, were to win. What
00:15:58would happen, what are his options regarding
00:16:02the regional conflict? No matter who would come to
00:16:05power in Israel, I don't think we can
00:16:09talk about overnight changes, yes,
00:16:12what we could see is a
00:16:15less aggressive
00:16:18policy in the West Bank, perhaps
00:16:21the government would finally get involved to
00:16:25calm down the settlers a bit, because
00:16:29they do a disservice,
00:16:31a serious disservice to Israel's image, on the one hand there we
00:16:35could see...
00:16:38a moderation of Israel, to
00:16:41see again a moderation
00:16:44in Gaza, the Trump administration is pressing
00:16:48very hard for Israel to move now towards the next steps
00:16:51of the ceasefire agreement from
00:16:552025, until now Israel has been
00:16:59reticent, practically the campaign has continued
00:17:02this year in Gaza, even if with a
00:17:05much, much lower intensity. but still we are talking about
00:17:08I think about 1500 deaths there, meaning it is quite serious
00:17:12what is happening, reconstruction, what
00:17:14reconstruction, so we cannot talk about a
00:17:18serious reconstruction effort, it is a
00:17:21humanitarian crisis unfolding and the next stages of the
00:17:24plan, the White House has publicly pressured for them to be
00:17:28implemented, and Netanyahu has
00:17:31resisted because the extreme
00:17:35right does not even conceive,
00:17:38they have publicly stated this, that Gaza should be
00:17:41recolonized, not to mention certain statements
00:17:45that are downright extremist, even in
00:17:48the sense of emptying Gaza, encouraging the population there to
00:17:52leave, because at one point there were such
00:17:55statements made in Israel, but massive
00:17:58changes in Israeli politics in
00:18:01the sense of, let's say, a rapid
00:18:05return to what it was... in the 90s, when they talked
00:18:09about the two-state solution, towards,
00:18:12I don't know, handing over the West Bank to the Palestinians, I
00:18:16don't imagine that can happen now, because
00:18:19the public and the Israeli
00:18:22electorate is now much more
00:18:25right-wing on average than it was in the 90s, for
00:18:28example.
00:18:34Moscow is resorting to increasingly sophisticated strategies in its
00:18:37disinformation campaigns regarding Ukraine, from manipulated
00:18:41images to articles and video reports, falsely attributed
00:18:44to well-known newspapers and television stations, with the
00:18:48aim of undermining public trust in democratic
00:19:00boxes with the label for the servant of the people. This is
00:19:04the title of an article published in English on September
00:19:0723 on a Ukrainian news website. The alleged
00:19:11news is accompanied by a video that allegedly shows a raid by the National
00:19:15Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, NABU. The story claims that
00:19:18the money was found in the offices of Arsen Zhumadilov, the former head
00:19:22of the agency for defense procurement. The
00:19:25$140 million would have been in cash, in boxes that had
00:19:29a sticker with the text "for the servant of the people" in
00:19:33Ukrainian, thus referring to President Volodymyr
00:19:37Zelenskyy. "Servant of the People" was a Ukrainian
00:19:40television series in which the main role was played by President
00:19:44Zelenskyy, who was an actor before his political
00:19:47debut. The clip also contains the logo and name of the Ukrainian
00:19:51Anti-Corruption Agency, NABU, as well as the Specialized Anti-Corruption
00:19:54Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, SAPO. However, NABU denied
00:19:57the information and specified that the video is a fake created with
00:20:01the help of artificial intelligence. Furthermore,
00:20:04AFP verified and there is no footage on the official channels
00:20:08of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Agency or the
00:20:11Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. The sequence
00:20:14went viral on social media in various languages,
00:20:17including Romanian. However, the authors did not stop at creating
00:20:21an AI-generated video. To give this
00:20:25story the appearance of authentic news, the perpetrators created
00:20:29a fake website on another domain that mimicked the site of The New
00:20:32Voice of Ukraine. They copied all elements of the
00:20:36original site from Disney. sections and contact details,
00:20:39up to real articles, sneaking a fake one
00:20:43dated September 23 among them. In addition to the
00:20:46Ukrainian version of the alleged news, they also published an
00:20:49English variant. The next
00:20:53day, on September 24, the Center for Strategic Communications and
00:20:57Information Security of Ukraine found that the fake
00:21:00news had been picked up on important Russian Telegram channels, on
00:21:03X and on other Russian propaganda sites that support
00:21:07the war. On September 25, the fabricated news was
00:21:09distributed by Kirill Dmitriev himself. Dmitriev is
00:21:13Putin's representative in discussions with United States officials and
00:21:17the director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. On September
00:21:2125. New Voice of Ukraine issued a statement drawing
00:21:25attention to the fact that the article in question did not belong to it and recommended
00:21:29careful verification of the web domain. It can be observed that
00:21:32the original version of the site has a different domain from
00:21:36the fake site. According to verifications carried out by AFP,
00:21:40the site that disseminated the news regarding the $140 million in cash that
00:21:43would have been found in Ukraine, was registered on
00:21:46September 21, 2026. The website
00:21:50was populated internally with articles taken from the authentic New
00:21:54Voice of Ukraine site, including the titles and photographs
00:21:57used. The article about the alleged NABU
00:22:01raid was published on September 23, 2026, and on
00:22:03September 28, the fake site was no longer available. In
00:22:07short, the scheme was as follows: They created the images and text with
00:22:11artificial intelligence and to make them
00:22:13credible, they built a fake version of the New Voice
00:22:17of Ukraine website. Then the fake news was amplified
00:22:20on Russian social networks and pushed by Russian propagandists to
00:22:24the international public. It is
00:22:26interesting that this fake appeared one day before the meeting that took
00:22:30place in New York between US officials Steve Wildkov and Jared
00:22:34Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev. CNN reported
00:22:37that among the topics discussed was the resolution of Russia's
00:22:40war against Ukraine. Practically,
00:22:43Russia and Russian propaganda promoted this fake news in
00:22:47an attempt to present to the West that Ukraine is. fighting, even
00:22:51while Vladimir Putin's special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, was holding
00:22:54discussions with the American delegation in New York. It is true that in
00:22:58Ukraine, since Russia's invasion in 2022, there have been several
00:23:02major corruption scandals confirmed by official
00:23:05sources. Just recently, on September 15, President
00:23:08Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the Prosecutor General of Ukraine,
00:23:12Ruslan Kravchenko, who denies the accusations that he received bribes
00:23:16and states that he initiated a lawsuit against the
00:23:20Anti-Corruption Agency. In November last year, a NABU investigation
00:23:24revealed a $100 million corruption scandal, which
00:23:28involved dilapidation in the Ukrainian energy sector.
00:23:31The head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, was forced to
00:23:34resign after information emerged regarding his involvement in this
00:23:38case. The way this fake news was created and propagated
00:23:42online shows how the enemy can use the latest artificial
00:23:46intelligence tools in information warfare. This
00:23:49time the goal is to discredit anti-corruption
00:23:52bodies, undermine trust in state institutions and
00:23:55damage Ukraine's image abroad. According to a report
00:23:59by NewsGuard, a company specialized in media monitoring
00:24:02and news credibility assessment,
00:24:06the Western press is facing a systematic attack that
00:24:09exploits the reputation of credible news sources to
00:24:12spread propaganda and undermine public trust in
00:24:16democratic institutions. The report
00:24:19demonstrates that... these campaigns aim to weaken the military and
00:24:22financial support given to Kyiv by Western
00:24:25nations, relying on the trust that readers place in established
00:24:29media brands. Russian operations faithfully
00:24:32reproduce the logos, fonts and official graphic elements
00:24:36of newspapers. In some cases, to mislead
00:24:40less informed users and camouflage the false
00:24:43content, even web domains with addresses almost
00:24:47identical to the authentic ones are registered. According
00:24:50to NewsGuard, since the launch of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the network
00:24:54of counterfeiters has generated 906 articles and
00:24:57video reports, falsely attributing them to a total of
00:25:01163 newspapers and television stations from
00:25:0421 countries. Among the targeted publications are
00:25:07La Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano, BBC, CNN,
00:25:11Bloomberg, Politico. The Euronews channel, based in France, is the
00:25:15most targeted, being attributed 82 fabricated
00:25:18materials. Frequently imitated media are
00:25:21French publications such as Liberation, the satirical magazine
00:25:25Sharley Hebdo, the public broadcaster France
00:25:2824, Le Figaro and Le Parisien. Most
00:25:31of these fake materials are produced by three Russia-associated
00:25:34influence campaigns, known as
00:25:38Matrioshka, Storm 1516 and
00:25:41Doppel Ganger. Matrioshka produces numerous
00:25:45fake videos daily, which it attributes to real publications. They are
00:25:48distributed on X and Telegram and target Ukraine, Europe and
00:25:52the United States. Storm 1516 produces fewer
00:25:56clips, but builds more elaborate fake stories,
00:25:59using the names and images of real publications, journals, or
00:26:02organizations. The materials are then distributed on
00:26:06X and can reach millions of users. Doppel
00:26:09Ganger has used similar tactics of imitating real news sites,
00:26:13but currently seems to have reduced
00:26:15its activity.
00:26:22President Donald Trump banned CNN,
00:26:26MSNBC and Politico from his press events,
00:26:29accusing them of producing fake news. The next day, however,
00:26:32ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News announced that they were
00:26:36withdrawing their White House correspondents in solidarity
00:26:39with their media colleagues. How it once was
00:26:42in America and why the American president's gesture would have been
00:26:46inconceivable then, Gabriel Giurgiu tells
00:26:48us.
00:26:53The America of the 90s is the one I knew and fell in
00:26:57love with. I went several times to Washington, Norfolk or
00:27:01New York for journalism study scholarships. I also
00:27:05caught George Bush senior and Bill Clinton,
00:27:08meaning both Republicans and Democrats in power, a certain
00:27:12type of power, a certain type from each, Democrats and Republicans. In
00:27:16those times, people with sympathies in both camps would
00:27:20meet, drink beer, watch election results
00:27:23together on TV and tease each other, like at a game
00:27:27where some supported the Washington Redskins and others the Dallas
00:27:30Cowboys. The example is not chosen randomly at all, you know.
00:27:34Back then, the separation of powers worked perfectly and the only
00:27:38stridencies in the public space were emanating from the buds
00:27:41of political correctness. Thus, the question
00:27:44regarding the legitimacy of the word
00:27:48"history" had already appeared. Perhaps "herstory" would have been more correct, right? Similarly,
00:27:52the formal rigor of "Menstruation" was questioned.
00:27:55Correct would have been "Femstruation",
00:27:58right? We all laughed. Back then, Wokism and its
00:28:02offshoots, all sorts of
00:28:05Maga-isms, did not exist and were not even in
00:28:09the pipeline. Just as rationally and naturally, the
00:28:12press functioned through newsrooms, whether at CNN Washington, where I
00:28:16had the privilege of being an intern on the late
00:28:20Larry King's show, or at Channel Seven ABC in Norfolk, things were
00:28:23settled, clear, without many question marks.
00:28:27The supreme value was considered equidistance, meaning
00:28:30journalistic objectivity. The relationship with politicians was
00:28:34based on mutual respect, commercial was separate from
00:28:38editorial, and no congressman or member of
00:28:40the administration would even dream of trying to
00:28:44interfere with the content of a news story. If they had only
00:28:47tried to express themselves about journalist X or Y, they would have been
00:28:51eaten alive by public opinion. And years
00:28:55passed. Political correctness became wokism, and
00:28:58as if from nowhere, as a reaction, Trumpism also came, that is,
00:29:02the MAGA movement. Inter-party beers slowly
00:29:06disappeared, and benign teasing was replaced by
00:29:09harsh words, unbridled sarcasm, threats of
00:29:13all kinds of reprisals. If you had told the average American of
00:29:17the 90s that, in 20 years, a
00:29:20president would ban some publications from the White House
00:29:24because he doesn't like their
00:29:27editorial content, you would have been frankly
00:29:31told to get lost.
00:29:55The next day, the other four big ones, namely ABC,
00:29:58CBS, NBC and especially Fox
00:30:02News, sent a clear message of solidarity. They withdrew from
00:30:06the group of television stations that provided the White House broadcasts, those
00:30:10so dear to Mr. Trump, without which the shows from
00:30:13the Oval Office no longer make any sense, because they are not seen on
00:30:16television. Meanwhile, the United States has reached
00:30:2064th place in the World Press Freedom Index,
00:30:24while Romania is 49th, and the Republic of Moldova is even
00:30:2831st. That's how I come to regret the 90s,
00:30:31because I was younger, not for any other reason,
00:30:33obviously.
00:30:39Empires continued to exist even after the Second World
00:30:42War. Capitalist or socialist, they continued
00:30:46to expand their territories through wars, coups or
00:30:50alliances, in the name of democracy. Today we are talking
00:30:53about the Soviet Union and