Russia had reportedly spent vasts sums to thumb the scales and very nearly succeeded.
Some of the evidence of that almost eclipses elon_musk trying to buy out the states election … for instance:
…with actual rampant vote buying by Russia. Moldovans flying back to Moldova from Russia and Turkey had over a million euros in cash held by customs authorities on suspicion of being funds from a criminal enterprise, yet none of the people who had the cash from them has filed an application to have it returned.
(“The 2020s were characterized by overt plutocratic assaults on democracy at various levels…”
–From a fictitious history book copyright 2042)
