On the day when, an unprecedented thing happened and Poland’s airspace was penetrated for hours by Russian drones, on the day when its armed forces shot down, for the first time, the unmanned aircraft, on the day when Warsaw invoked Article 4 of NATO, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned in Parliament that his country was “the closest to an open conflict since World War II”, well, on this completely out-of-the-ordinary day, it took the US president a few hours to have a reaction.
As a matter of fact, his reaction was short, and bland, and lacking in clarity (this, in order to maintain decent language). In fact, Trump’s reaction was telling for a White House that excelled in the almost eight months of the current president’s mandate for not really bothering the Kremlin, no matter how odious, dangerous and contrary to the interests of the United States Russia’s behavior was.
As things look at least for the moment, the breaches that the Russian test brought to light were rather proof, at least over the Atlantic of the reaction of the American president. Of course, there is still room for maneuver and to roll them back, but until then, Moscow has every reason to open at least one small bottle of vodka.
For us, Romanians, the kind of escalation that Putin’s Russia showed itself so blatantly on Tuesday night is undoubtedly something ominous.
But, remember, because it is still a recent fact, Romania only this spring adapted its legislation to meet the current challenges. And the road getting there was difficult, Moscow meticulously undermined it through local “engineers” – lawmakers and leaders of the pro-Russian parties, AUR, SOS, POT.
The virulence with which the three political forces opposed draft legislation to provide the Romanian army with the optimal framework to optimally defend the national territory was mind-boggling. Not only did they come out with perverted anti-propaganda in the public space, not only did they oppose it by voting, but they went to the full hog, challenging at the Constitutional Court the law that would allow for enemy drones that penetrate the airspace to be shot down and thus become a clear threat to Romania’s population and infrastructure.
At the time, it seemed rationally, patriotically and technically, incomprehensible the obstinacy with which the “sovereignists” opposed the timely updating of the legislative framework, which aimed to consolidate the country’s sovereignty itself, by providing the Romanian army with instruments with which it could fully defend Romania’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, however, the Russian operation against Poland and NATO itself was the litmus test. It has fully clarified the anti-national, non-sovereignist, subversive and profoundly pro-Russian nature of the game played by the three parties, AUR, SOS and POT, on the occasion of the adoption of the law that today allows the Romanian military to shoot down hostile drones.
By abusively using religious symbols (crosses, icons, Bibles) and national symbols (traditions, costumes, literature), the Romanian so-called “sovereignists” serve with nonchalance and Stakhanovist zeal precisely the interests of the country that represents today, as it has represented throughout the entire twentieth century, the greatest threat to Romania’s security, sovereignty and territorial integrity. This country is Russia.
Russia, on Tuesday to Wednesday, sent drones into Poland that were supposed to cause death in Ukraine, but which could very easily have caused death in Poland. Moreover, this kind of operation narrowly missed triggering a possible regional, if not global, conflict.
Imagine if Moscow would have done the same thing in Romania. Imagine that it could do it in the foreseeable future, because, as the saying goes, it’s not a wrap yet.
Imagine what it would have meant if the Romanian army had been forbidden by the political authorities in Romania to defend its citizens and to support its foreign partners who contribute massively to Romania’s security.
Using AUR, SOS and POT, Russia has forged a veritable fifth column on the territory of Romania. What happened in Poland on Tuesday night should have made this reality more than obvious.
We will never be able to truly protect ourselves from the Russians until we learn to truly protect our people, organizations and parties from within.
Remember three words: AUR, SOS, POT! (In Romanian the acronyms mean GOLD, Sauce and I/they CAN).
- PS: What could be more telling, in addition to the above, than the fact that AUR has just asked the Romanian Government to refuse a loan of almost 17 billion euros, through the EU’s SAFE program, which will revitalize Romania’s defense industry? Attention: Romania would be the largest beneficiary, after Poland. So, how much sovereignty, how much NATO, how much protection against Russia is in this profoundly anti-national approach of the AUR and, on the other hand, how much Russia, how much Putinism, how much poison against their own country lie at the request of the party led by George Simion? Weigh it up with your own mind, ignore for a moment the Kremlin-style propaganda mess, promptly delivered by AUR as if it’s been ordered from above. And take a look at the details of the SAFE loan that you can find them HERE.
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