I am counting on legendary Slovenian stinginess to win out.
BTW for those who don’t know, Melania Trump is Slovenian and her son Barron, speaks Slovenian fluently. Barron Trump could also vote in the referendum, being a Slovenian citizen himself. 🤪
Oh yes, and when I recently talked to one well-off Romanian guy, who sounds apolitical, he was like “Yeah, ok, ‘communism bad’, but at least back then we could have our own place to live in.
I had this machine-translated and hilariously enough, the article is basically blaming the “hostile foreign powers” manipulating “social media”, so probably “Russia, Russia, Russia”.
In socialist Yugoslavia, we definitely considered socialist Romania a backwater country ran by a weirdo, since they were doing quite a bit worse than we did, at the time, but it makes me think that Romanians must be massively disillusioned and disappointed with their transition to capitalist country.
My readout is, Ursula started her arrogant lecturing about Russia, but the annoyed Chinese, who expected trade negotiations not lectures, would have none of it, and just walked away. Ursula concluded how this was “excellent”…