Caught off-guard, the West’s political cocktail shakers realized too late that a pro-Russian candidate had won the first round of the Romanian elections. Set aside for the final round, December 8^th was looked forward to by the electorate.

​The voters should have learnt from local history. You do not vote your country out of the Western Alliance. Among much else, an ambitious plan to install Europe’s largest NATO base in Romania was threatened.

What followed was a swiftly organized intervention by the same Western players who organized the 2014 coup in Ukraine.

Let us recall that in November 2013, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych decided to withdraw from an association agreement with the EU and opt for a Russian trade deal and bailout.

Washington DC immediately mandated Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to organize a violent regime change operation. Yanukovych barely escaped with his life when fleeing to exile in Russia.

Fast forward to November 2023. As it became clear that Washington approved Volodymyr Zelensky with a popularity rating of just 16 per cent would not be reelected, Ukraine’s head of state cancelled elections for the foreseeable future.

Recent elections in Georgia highlight this same dynamic. The electorate in this quasi-European nation placed their ballot slips on a candidate whose anti-Western mandate invited closer relationships with Russia,

Not so fast. Again, a regime change coup using the same playbook methods used at Maiden was organized by Western Alliance actors.

The US and Brussels supposed a flawed electoral process. However, violent pro-Western clashes failed to depose the incoming Russian-friendly administration.

“Georgia has prevented an attempted overthrow of the government orchestrated by foreign powers,” Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said.

State Duma deputy from Crimea, Mikhail Sheremet: “The failed Maidan in Georgia is a vivid example that Western color schemes are not a death sentence.

He emphasized that the hellish Ukrainian scenario and the bitter fate of Ukraine can be avoided by successfully resisting the West’s color revolutions, which are external attempts at a coup d’état.

An EU and NATO member state, Romania is Europe’s 12th largest nation but for how much longer? A pro-Moscow presidential candidate hostile to both NATO and the European Union was unpredictably elected in the first round.

For the Western Alliance, it was intolerable that a fiercely independent Romania-first candidate could be elected.

When this likely successful contender for Romania’s highest office proposed to withhold aid to Ukraine the Western brake pedal was pressed to the metal.

December 8 Romania’s electorate was poised to vote in the runoff election for their next president. Voters had two candidates to pick from: centre-right small-town mayor Elena Lasconi and far-right Călin Georgescu.

The latter had been dismissed as an also-ran by the cocksure Western ineptocracies. However, Georgescu confounded the pundits when he was catapulted from obscurity into the lead in the first round of voting on Nov. 24. 

There was no way that Washington could abide a head of state whose platform is anti-NATO and skeptical of the European Union.

Two days before the final round, Romania’s Constitutional Court decided the first round of the election was flawed by what the court claimed to be a Russian operation to influence the result and that the entire process needed to be scrapped.

A bemused Romanian President Klaus Iohannis was obliged to extend his term. The United States upheld findings of Russian involvement so no surprises there.

Taken by surprise election contenders re-grouped. For what? Something that might slip past the Washington DC gatekeeper? No date has yet been set – but that will have to happen soon. 

Are we expected to believe that the Kremlin, ultra-sensitive to any fascistic tendencies in Ukraine, would put the Kremlin’s weight behind a Romanian candidate unashamedly supportive of Corneliu Codreanu (1899-1938).

The charismatic leader of Romania’s pre-war Iron Guard Codreanu was an outspoken supporter of National Socialism and a fervent opponent of Stalinist Russia.

Georgescu now says he’s a victim of a plot to keep him out of power and thwart the will of the people. He compared his treatment to that of Donald Trump inflicted by the establishment in the United States. 

Much is at stake: Thwarted in 2014 by a Kremlin-inspired annexation election in Crimea from seizing Russia’s Sevastopol naval base, NATO is currently expanding its base near Constanta in Romania.

Situated a mere 200 miles from Russian territory it will be the largest US base in Europe – unless foiled by the incoming government.

The Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania is set to be the largest NATO military base in Europe. When completed it will surpass the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, in size.

The new base will give Romania an increased role in NATO’s security architecture and a position of greater strength in the Black Sea, which is militarily dominated by Russia. It will be able to host 10,000 soldiers and civilians by 2030 – unless stopped.

Georgia has steadily drifted from a liberal to a national model, much to the frustration of its Western patrons. This is not due to sympathy for Russia but rather pragmatic national interest, especially economic survival. By avoiding full alignment with the anti-Moscow coalition, Tbilisi has reaped economic benefits that resonate with its population. The fact that most Georgians support the government reflects this success