Calin Georgescu’s political and public activity, in the service of Russia’s interests, needs no introduction.
It has been documented in many press investigations and by Romanian prosecutors’ probes, and numerous public statements made by the defendant speak for themselves.
Moscow’s support for this wolf in sheep’s clothing has been highlighted in official Romanian documents, in international research, as well as – surprise, surprise! – in official positions taken by the SVR, Putin’s regime’s foreign espionage service.
But the obscene links between Calin Georgescu and the Russians is alive and kicking if you look at Moscow’s present agitation related to the Moldova’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
Not missing a good opportunity to stay silent, the SVR on Tuesday issued a military statement dressed up as a press release.
Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service’s statement, deliberately mirrored what was said by Moldova regarding Russian meddling. It claims that European countries themselves are plotting the “blatant falsification” of the result on Sunday in order to provoke protests.
The SVR even warns that the EU could mount “an armed incursion and de-facto occupation” of Moldova, falsely claiming that the EU is deploying troops.
“This is Russia openly planning for Plan B,” Sergiu Panainte warns. “If PAS do get a majority, it means they [Russia] will resort to violence and staged attacks. This is the option they are preparing for.
It adds that “currently, NATO member states are concentrating their armed forces in Romania, near the border with Moldova.” Finally, that “a NATO landing in the Odessa region of Ukraine is being prepared to intimidate Transnistria”.
In short, the SVR accredits the idea that Europe is intensively preparing for the siege of the Republic of Moldova, that the attack will be carried out by NATO troops and that Romania plays the double role of a space of concentration and a starting point for the ambush.
If Russia in general, and Putin-led Russia in particular, has excelled at something over time, this has been neither building a functioning economy, nor building a free society, nor cultivating a foreign policy that corresponds to international law.
Russia in fact has excelled at cultivating a tradition, in which the wolf shouts “The wolf!”, posing as the aggressor while in fact it is aggressing itself. The “hard” case of Ukraine and the “soft” case of the Republic of Moldova are just the latest examples.
But even this is not the main point of Tuesday’s SVR communiqué, but rather the similarity between what the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu said not long ago and what the head of Putin’s spies is saying now.
Because this idea, of Romania as a gateway through which NATO troops would go on the attack in the eastern space, was also propagated by Georgescu, at the beginning of the year, in an interview with one of the conspiracy fans in the MAGA universe: “Mr. Rutte, the head of NATO, tried to impose his rules and force the Third War in the Ukraine region via Romania in particular. (…) Now they want to impose the Third War in Ukraine via Romania.”
Of course, unlike the SVR cartoon, which today reduces the story of monsters to attacking the Republic of Moldova, the caricature of Georgescu had raised the eye, in January, talking about an attack on Russia itself and the outbreak of World War III.
The fact that the overlap between the narrative of the domestic pro-Russian and that of Russian espionage is slightly imperfect in letter should not be misleading, given their perfect overlap in spirit and idea.
After all, it is well known that the Russian intelligence archipelago is not reduced to the SVR, being instead made up of a multitude of other Russian services with attributions, in turn, externally – beyond the SVR, the most famous being the GRU and the FSB.
That said, the Russian intelligence archipelago is so vast that even the Carpathian genius, Călin Georgescu, would not always find it easy to know from the beginning or to decipher along the way which of these entities pull harder on the threads to which he was “attached”.
It should be noted, however, that the bizarre dynamics of coincidence suspiciously constantly project the same picture: what you hear today from the mouth of Călin Georgescu, you find out tomorrow from a Russian intelligence service communiqué; and sometimes, it is the other way around.
Calin Georgescu is more and more zealously exposed by the Russians, but this is not because the benefactors want evil, but because they have no choice.
Two days after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, we had a theory related to the strategic imperative felt by Moscow, that of “the ritual sacrifice of agents of influence or of another nature, from the territories in the crosshairs, directly or indirectly, throwing them head-on into battle. In other words, the opening of cans, laying bare pearances, and thus their operative unveiling, begins.”
At that time – February 26, 2022 – I was forever remembering Archbishop Teodosie (and not only). Details – HERE
But more than three and a half years have passed since then, the Kremlin’s needs have evolved, in the context of the unexpected blockage of its operation in Ukraine, so that today another can, in the person of Calin Georgescu, is opened by the Russians unsparingly begins to smell.
“It may be a bath for Teodosie”, I wrote then and it will be a bath for Georgescu, I update now, “but it is not a bath for those who probably guided him through instructions in Cyrillic – they will recruit or have already recruited another. They will reward the unfortunate man for years and sacrifice him in the same way, when necessary.” Details – HERE
Both Copenhagen and Oslo airports closed last night as mysterious drones passed over them
