{"id":1508182,"date":"2024-12-16T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1508182"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:05:00","slug":"romanias-constitutional-coup-is-meant-to-buy-more-time-for-nato-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/romanias-constitutional-coup-is-meant-to-buy-more-time-for-nato-in-ukraine\/1508182\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania’s Constitutional Coup Is Meant To Buy More Time For NATO In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania’s Constitutional Coup Is Meant To Buy More Time For NATO In Ukraine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It was assessed late last month that \u201cThe Outcome Of Romania\u2019s Presidential Election Could Spoil The US\u2019 Potential Escalation Plans<\/a>\u201d if then-frontrunner Calin Georgescu, a populist conservative-nationalist that\u2019s critical of NATO\u2019s proxy war on Russian in Ukraine, had won the second round on 8 December. His first-round victory was\u00a0annulled<\/a>\u00a0by the Constitutional Coup in a move that he\u00a0condemned as a coup<\/a>, however, on the pretext that his pre-election support on TikTok might have been due to foreign backing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nothing like this has ever happened before.<\/strong> Nobody alleges that the electoral process itself was fraudulent. The only claim is that classified evidence supposedly exists allegedly suggesting that the popularization of Georgescu\u2019s content on TikTok might have been inorganic. When all was said and done, however, more voters still chose him over anyone else. This means that speculative degrees of separation between them and a foreign actor via social media was enough to annual the election.<\/p>\n

This is a disturbing precedent that can easily be exploited by the West the next time that a populist conservative-nationalist with \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d foreign policy views wins an election. <\/strong>At the time of writing, a redo hasn\u2019t yet been scheduled, but it\u2019s expected after the\u00a0new pro-Western parliament<\/a>\u00a0convenes on 20 December. About that, their elections were held after the first presidential round, but no accusations of foul play followed. This is obviously due to the West receiving its desired result.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear who\u2019ll serve as Commander-in-Chief until the next one is elected, but whoever it is, nobody should anticipate them implementing any radical policies like Georgescu\u2019s. Accordingly, more time has been bought for NATO to organize its\u00a0reportedly planned peacekeeping mission<\/a>\u00a0in Ukraine, even if it\u2019s carried out under a non-NATO mandate. Had Georgescu won the second round and been inaugurated later this month, he could have ruled out his country\u2019s participation in this possible plan.<\/p>\n

Romania isn\u2019t as indispensable for NATO\u2019s military logistics to Ukraine as Poland is, but it still borders Ukraine\u2019s western and southwestern regions that are of strategic importance for the bloc<\/strong>. Even if Romania wouldn\u2019t directly participate in any such mission, regardless of whether it\u2019s carried out under the peacekeeper pretext, it could still let the alliance\u2019s troops and equipment transit through its territory\u00a0to Odessa<\/a>\u00a0for example. Georgescu, however, could have cut that off and greatly complicated their plans.<\/p>\n

Keeping him out of office or at least delaying his victory, if he\u2019s even allowed to run again that is (and the results aren\u2019t annulled again or defrauded like they were in\u00a0neighboring<\/a>\u00a0Moldova<\/a>), is therefore of supreme Western importance in order to keep their military logistics options open.<\/p>\n

Even if they succeed, there are still \u201c10 Obstacles To Trump\u2019s Reported Plan For Western\/NATO Peacekeepers In Ukraine<\/a>\u201d that he\u2019d have to overcome, which readers can learn about from the preceding hyperlinked analysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It might therefore turn out that all of this meddling was for naught if no such peacekeeping mission follows or if Romania doesn\u2019t play a significant role therein. In any case, that\u2019s the cost that the West was willing to pay simply to keep such options maximally open, thus showing how its leaders really feel about the democratic process. At the end of the day, Western democracy is just a process for legitimizing elite interests, and these same elites sometimes repeat the process until they get their desired result.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 12\/16\/2024 – 10:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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