Romania Epicenter Of Liberal-Globalist Vs Populist-Nationalist Struggle

Romania has been under liberal-globalist control for decades after these forces exploited its political dysfunction and endemic corruption to continually install their preferred candidates into power.

Georgescu represents the most promising opportunity in years for a populist-nationalist revolution that could finally resolve the aforementioned systemic challenges and thus restore Romania's sovereignty. His appeals to history, religion and national interests genuinely resonate with many of his compatriots.

Georgescu can therefore be described as a“Romanian Trump”, but both figures are really just tapping into the populist-nationalist zeitgeist that's been spreading across the West for years in reaction to the liberal-globalists' socio-political and economic excesses.

He's his own man, as is Trump, and both simply embody the trend of the times. Like all revolutionaries (or counter-revolutionaries from the perspective of regaining the power that was seized from the people), however, they're also facing lots of resistance.

It took Trump over eight years before he was able to neutralize the“deep state's” subversive plots so it's no surprise that Georgescu, who only just recently began his political career, is having a hard time.

Trump was a trailblazer, whereas Georgescu is following in his footsteps, so it's possible that Trump could lend Georgescu a helping hand to greatly speed up the time that it takes for him to neutralize his own“deep state's” subversive plots. It's here where the ongoing struggle between the US and EU is relevant.

Vance's Munich speech vindicated Putin's Summer 2022 prediction about political change in Europe and made clear that the US stands on the side of all populist-nationalist movements on the continent.

The Romanian“deep state's” latest attempt to take down Georgescu is essentially a gauntlet thrown at the Trump administration by its liberal-globalist opponents in Brussels who fully back Bucharest. They want to test whether the US will do anything in response to the EU's rolling coup in Romania.

What's unfolding in this Balkan country is nothing less than the opening of another New Cold War front, albeit this time an ideological one between liberal-globalists and populist-nationalists, which also interestingly pits nominal NATO allies against one another as the EU and the US take opposite sides.

It's incumbent on the Trump administration to do what's needed to ensure that Georgescu is allowed to run as president in May's election redux and that the vote is truly free and fair instead of flawed as usual.

To that end, targeted sanctions against Romanian figures, credibly threatening to withdraw its troops from Romania, suspending arms contract and extending full political support to populist-nationalist protesters could pressure the authorities into reconsidering the wisdom of doing Brussels' bidding.

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At the same time, a comprehensive pressure campaign could also backfire if the German-led EU exploits it as the pretext for deepening its already immense control over Romania, though that could backfire too.

The likely next German chancellor's pledge to“achieve independence” from the US that military, economic and energy factors make that a lot easier said than done.

If provoked, like could soon happen if the German-led EU pushes back against the US' potentially impending pressure campaign on Romania, then Trump could weaponize each of them in his own such campaign against the EU and Germany that he stands a good chance of winning on both fronts.

Altogether, what just happened in Romania places the country at the center of the intra-Western ideological dimension of the New Cold War, which will determine the future of Europe.

Liberal-globalists will either entrench their power in full defiance of Trump, possibly at enormous costs to their countries, or they'll be democratically deposed by populist-nationalists who share the same worldview as his team.

This struggle is historic, and the consequences of its outcome will reverberate for decades.

This article was first published on Andrew Korybko's Substack and is republished with kind permission. Become an Andrew Korybko Newsletter subscriber here.

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