Romania at the Crossroads of History

Yesterday, Calin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential elections in Romania.

The Media, both domestic and international, painted him with the same broad-brush as pro-Putin, pro-Russia, pro-East.

Nothing further from the truth. And no, before I go on, I did not vote for him.

The man is not even controversial, and no matter how much the media is trying to reshape his statements, what he said does not make him a Putin lover.

Georgescu said: “NATO is the weakest alliance on the globe.” He also said he would exit NATO if elected president. The man stated that it was also an honor that Romania was not invited into Schengen.

Context

In a recent TV interview, Georgescu said that if things, meaning the war in UKR, continued to escalate, he would exit NATO.

The man stated publicly that Neutrality was the way forward for Romania. And that the country should be friends with everybody. And if that included Putin’s Russia and Communist China, so be it.

And guess what, that used to be until February 2022, the official policy of the Swiss Confederation.

Neutrality made Switzerland rich and safe. And just because those idiots readily abandoned a policy that made their land secure for five centuries, and war free for two, that doesn’t mean Neutrality, Armed Neutrality does not work.

It worked and it works.

But I digress.

Georgescu was asked by a media shill if he admired Putin. This is what he said:

“If Putin is a Russian patriot in his own country, that’s their internal problem. We, Romanians, should be concerned with the circumstances affecting our own country.”

Yet the perfidious media, already in the pay of NATO and Western business interests, has always attempted to make this guy into a Russia-lover.

Case in point

In February 2022, immediately after Putin’s Special Military Operation in UKR, Georgescu stated that “Putin is a man who loves his country.”

I honestly do not see how this statement makes him into a Putin lover.

I am hesitant to throw myself in Georgescu’s camp for several reasons.

1. He is old. Born in 1962, he came of age before the fall of Communism, which makes him susceptible to corruption. He was a Party member, and he might have also been recruited by the Securitate.
2. He is an old technocrat who served on Theodor Stolojan’s government back in 1992. Afterwards, he went on to serve at United Nations HQ in Viena and Geneva. That makes him a clear asset of the Romanian Intelligence services community. With all the good and the bad this entails.

Good: because Romania is as safe as it is because the “blue-eyed people” of the intelligence community have informants in all walks of life and know who passed gas the previous night, let alone who intends to harm Romanians.

Bad: because they also know all the secrets. There are basically no secrets in Romania. They listen in on all communications, all the time, and if you say the wrong stuff, you get a call replaying your conversation back to you.

Yeah, I know: Ceausescu and Biden/Macron/Putin/der Leyden’s/Sunak’s (et al.) wet dream come true.

Georgescu has been validated by the Romanian intelligence community and that is not a stamp of approval that makes him worthy of my vote.

Furthermore, whereas Romanians see him as a providential leader, who found recognition in the West, and was validated by his diplomatic career, I see him as a man who never knew the trials and tribulations of the Romanian people.

Georgescu was never down in the mud. He does not like to get his hands dirty, and he is aloof.

He may claim a Trump-gene or affiliation. But he ain’t no Trump.

3. He is pedantic: I cannot take an elected leader who has a vision so clear that he feels compelled to feed it to you like a teacher, imbued of its own self-importance and with no second thoughts. The man is full of himself, and he knows it.

4. He is poetic: Perhaps I am jealous of his capacity to evoke Eminescu, Romania’s greatest poet, to the masses. I am not sure.

5. He is a Politico first and foremost. Accused of being a Putin lover, he was content with rejecting it out of hand, but embraced the publicity, whereas his persona has nothing, but nothing in common with the current Kremlin resident.

As for people who mistake his deportment as emulating Putin’s, I have nothing to say to them.

Georgescu is a shifty politician, well-versed to pass as the Pedagogue of the People, and well-spoken enough to induce the masses to vote for him because he looks experienced and non-threatening, but the man is a fox in sheep’s clothing.

He reminds me of Ciano, Mussolini’s Foreign Minister. He gives me the same blue blood wannabe, with messianic vibes, who is too sure of himself and might as well send Romania’s boys to war for a cause he believes in, as he is to keep Romania neutral.

And his penchant for showing deference to Antonescu, who did more than Hitler’s bidding at a time, when he could have been Romania’s Mannerheim, and kept us within the national borders, without advancing an inch inside Russia, that penchant bodes ill for the country.

But the man got a lot of votes, like a ton.

Nobody saw this coming.

And now the whole political class, the old guard, Left and Right NATO and Western collaborators, are in panic mode.

They do not know how to come to grips with this monumental earthquake.

Romanians decided clearly that they are done with the West, as it looks now.

They know that Romania deserves better than be a cheap well-trained labor source for English nursing homes, hospitals, Italy’s farm hands, Spain’s construction sector, America’s IT sector, Canada’s public service, and France’s services industry.

They know that Romania can and actually does better economically than the West is ready to acknowledge.

And they want Romania to get her cake and eat it too.

When you add to this, the rejection of all woke BS, neo-Marxist, neo-communist feminist propaganda, you get the critical mass that shifted Romanian voters towards Georgescu and Simion.

This ain’t a vote for the Right. It is a vote for traditions, culture, nativism, the sovereign people. It is a vote against the globalization that forced six million people into exile, into the Great Scattering.

It is a vote for Life, for what works, and for the reconstruction of the country on common sense bases that work and a rejection of decadent, putrid, rancid tendencies that have made the Western world into a pigsty.

The West is dying, and Romania doesn’t want to die with it.

Pure and simple.

PS As for people being afraid he’s going to pull Romania out of NATO, rest assured he won’t do that. NATO is a one-way street. Just like Hotel California, you may check in, but you may never leave. Romania will be lucky if Georgescu can pull an Erdogan or a De Gaulle. That is to stay in but assume an independent non-aligned stance at the same time. Who knows? Time will tell.

As I write this, the United States of America acknowledged giving Ukraine the green light to hit a resort in Russia using ATACMS. The resort was hit by a Storm Shadow missile that killed 500 North Korean soldiers and 18 Russian officers. The Russian Federation has vowed to retaliate against NATO anti-missile base in Redzikowo, Poland, making it “a priority target for potential neutralization.”

Ladies and gentlemen, if there was a second planet that I could take my family to, I’d leave this Blue Dot behind faster than you can say Hasta la vista, baby! But there ain’t and no such luck. These are our leaders: ready to sacrifice all our lives to advance their agendas. So, when someone talks of peace, yeah, you should pay attention. Because living through an unjust peace beats dying in a just war.