{"id":2523,"date":"2024-12-28T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factcheck.lt\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2025-01-11T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:29:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factcheck.lt\/eng\/news\/final_global_democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Factcheck: Is 2024 really the end of Western democracy and the beginning of a global crisis?","raw":"Factcheck: Is 2024 really the end of Western democracy and the beginning of a global crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 27, 2024, in the program *”LAVROV: Beyond the Edge”* on the ONT TV channel, the following statements were made:<\/p>\n

\n“I will start closing the doors of Ward 24 for this year’s patients, beginning at the end\u2014the end of the model Western democracy, which seems to have reached a point of no return this year. <\/p>\n

I barged in with the first phrase from one of Moldova\u2019s last presidents, a citizen of Romania, Maia Sandu. This is about when George Soros Jr. orchestrated Moldova’s elections and a referendum on a Western course for the country, backed by votes from faraway Western diasporas. Even with those additional votes, Moldova barely scraped a win. To which Maia made a statement that will undoubtedly become iconic: ‘The percentage doesn’t matter.’ By this, she shattered the feminine trend in international politics completely and irreparably. Following this, there were elections in Georgia, where the pro-Western position lost and couldn’t settle, and elections in Romania, where the West annulled the results via Hungary’s court after losing. Henceforth, the slogan of any election overseen by Washington, Brussels, and Bucharest, along with Chisinau personally, will sound as follows: ‘Vote with us, vote like us, vote better than us. Or you lose.’<\/p>\n

Speaking of losers: for the entire year, the head of EU diplomacy, a career humanitarian and longtime philanthropist Josep Borrell\u2014author of the phrase ‘Europe is a garden, and the rest are wild, unkind jungles’\u2014tore apart peace fund budgets and more, pouring as much money as possible into war efforts. As the year ended, after the U.S. allocated $100 billion to Kyiv and the EU $130 billion (generously siphoning off a lion\u2019s share to party-linked arms donors for corrupt schemes), Josep ran into a battleship, or maybe even a dreadnought. ‘My gardener does not understand why he should pay for Ukraine out of his own pocket,’ complained the head of European diplomacy Borrell in an interview. And you know what? If even the gardener of a gardener in this Europe doesn\u2019t understand, one thing can be said with certainty: the love for Kyiv in Brussels, Paris, and London has withered. The tomatoes are rotting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our verdict based on conducted analyses:<\/p>\n

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Verdict: Incorrect<\/h2>\n

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\nReason:<\/p>\n

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  • Statements or claims are entirely false: information from multiple sources or opinions of experts in the relevant field contradicts them.<\/li>\n
  • Cause-and-effect relationships clearly do not exist as claimed.<\/li>\n
  • Events occurred in substantially different ways than stated.<\/li>\n
  • When quoting, significant parts are omitted, rearranged, altered, or mistranslated from a foreign language, fundamentally changing the meaning of what was said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n


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