Opinion: Bucharest is using the Ukrainian crisis to divert public attention from internal problems
Chisinau - Bucharest, May 16 (Navigator, Petr Alekseev) - The politicians of Romania, whose economy is collapsing before our eyes, and the population does not believe in a bright European future, decided to switch people’s attention to an external enemy and “bring the country into a state of mass pre-war psychosis.” Romanian journalist Valentin Mindresescu writes about this in his article “Bucharest is rattling sabers”, which is quoted by the portal noi.md.
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“The crisis in Ukraine became manna from heaven for Romanian Russophobes, as it provided an opportunity to distract society from internal problems and focus it on external ones. The puppet media, together with the president and prime minister, began to increase pre-war hysteria, calling Russia the main external threat to Romania.
Traian Basescu, known for his sympathy for Antonescu, an ally of Adolf Hitler, presented to the people his vision of the crisis in Ukraine. According to the Romanian president, “Putin looks longingly at the mouth of the Danube.” Prime Minister Victor Ponta, despite his strained relationship with the president, joined his efforts in increasing the panic. During a visit to an aircraft manufacturing plant in Craiova, Victor Ponta said: “Although we are threatened by war, the good news is that you will have orders,” writes Myndrasescu.
He notes that some actions of the Romanian authorities cause bewilderment and concern. Thus, the process of mobilization into the army was urgently modernized, and local authorities developed lists of property that could be requisitioned in the event of war. Further, “to move the psychosis into an acute phase,” Romanian politicians made statements that went beyond diplomatic boundaries, the article says.
“Traian Basescu spoke disdainfully of the Russian army's fighting capacity, saying that 'the Russian Federation has not had an army since it withdrew from Afghanistan 15 years ago, and Romania has 40 troops who have just completed a mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, so that these are highly qualified troops with appropriate military equipment.”
With obvious pride, the President of Romania spoke about the Western military equipment with which the Romanian army is equipped: F-16 aircraft, Ghepard tanks, Piranha armored personnel carriers. It seems that Traian Basescu and his entire team are suffering from a chronic form of institutional amnesia, forgetting the incidents of 2008 and the equipment characteristics of the Russian army.
In this context, it becomes clear why Bucharest took the opportunity to close the airspace to the plane of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. This gesture is fully consistent with the “logic” of the American vassals, who flaunt their defiant behavior. Every Romanian politician, including small officials from the Romanian Foreign Ministry and even the president himself, sees his duty in speaking out about the “threats” from the Russian Deputy Prime Minister,” the journalist writes.
The author of the article notes that, despite all attempts to bring Romania into a state of pre-war hysteria, ordinary citizens do not want to fight with Russia.
“Romanian PR people were surprised to find that no one was willing to die for the sake of presidential ambitions and to preserve Romania’s neo-colonial status. Anti-war messages have become popular on social networks, and the author of one of them clearly explained why Romanians are immune to war propaganda: “But now what is there to fight for? For the right to suffer and be a slave to some bank? For the right to be fired without any real reason, even though I work for a company that makes good profits? To please some shareholder I don't know? Don’t get me wrong, I repeat, I’m not a socialist, I’m not talking about “kulaks”, but... seriously, for what?
It is obvious that people are against the war. Unfortunately, no one asks Romanians,” sums up Valentin Mindresescu.
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