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So if Brexit and now the results of the world's most important election were not enough to make Vladimir Putin ecstatic, the world's least important election (I talked about it here) has just ended with the pro-Russian candidate beating the pro-EU candidate solidly (by ten percent of the votes). Igor Dodon (I took a picture of him here) is the president-elect of Moldova. He ran under the "Re-establish and strengthen our relations with Russia" slogan.

Well if that is not enough, then in Bulgaria, an actual EU member, the pro-Russian air force commander general Rumen Radev is now winning the election too.



And if that is not enough too, in Ukraine the very famous heavily pro-US former president of Georgia (a huge Putin's adversary) who was appointed by the new pro-west Ukrainian president the mayor of Odessa has resigned with much noise and heavy condemnations towards the Ukrainian new pro-west government, accusing it of corruption and everything else basically.

Seriously, it could not get better for Vladimir Putin. I bet he has the tears of the US protesters and media collected for him by the undercover KGB agents and flown to Moscow on fighter jets for him to bath in in his gold bath tub probably designed by the same Italian designer to the rich who gold leafed Donald Trump's penthouse.



We fucked up. Many people seem to have stopped voting for our message all over the world. I think I could agree with Seth MacFarlane quite a bit:



As much as I find the protests going on in the US ridiculous, I could still be this guy right now (the only protester in NYC who made sense to me):

We are thinking about going away for the weekend and are choosing between Odessa, which is on the Black Sea in Ukraine and Constanta, which is also on the Black Sea but in Romania.



Both cities are their respective countries' largest ports. Odessa is slightly over 110 miles away, Constanta is a bit further away at 285 miles.

Odessa is a Russian speaking city even though it is in Ukraine. We were told that in Soviet Union it was known as one of the most Jewish cities in the USSR and also as the "capital of humour" (yes, I also struggled to put "USSR" and "humour" together in a sentence). It was founded in 1794 by a decree of the Empress Catherine the Great and was known as "Southern Palmyra" and "pearl of the Black Sea".

Constanta is the oldest city in Romania, Ovid used to live in exile there. It is about three times smaller than Odessa (which has a population of about a million).

I think we are leaning towards Odessa.