🇷🇴⚖️⚡️ THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HAS CANCELLED THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!

🔗 https://www.antena3.ro/politica/alegeri-prezidentiale-2024/decizie-fara-precedent-curtea-constitutionala-a-anulat-alegerile-prezidentiale-surse-729835.html

🟦🗳⚡️ Journalists uncovered that some 130 TikTok influencers, who were accused of taking Russian money to promote Călin Georgescu to their audiences, were actually paid by the National Liberal Party!

They promoted a hashtag, #EchilibrușiVerticalitate which was named in one of the reports declassified by the Supreme National Defense Council, to be ”akin to the TikTok campaign ”Brother for Brother” which was promoted by Russia prior to invading Ukraine.

The influencers promoted these two qualities, ”equilibrium (balance)” and ”verticality” as the ”right ones” for a Romanian president, and answered ”Călin Georgescu” to users leaving comments asking who are they referring to.

The investigation revealed the firm paying them gave them guidelines on how to make TikTok posts promoting this ”candidate” and how to avoid TikTok's safeguards for political content, which the influencers respected.

However, when analysing the posts with the guidelines, journalists noticed that the hashtags used were different but similar at the same time. Rather than using #EchilibrușiSeriozitate as was instructed, the influencers changed it to #EchilibrușiVerticalitate.

PNL paid the firm who managed those 130 influencers and didn't complain, didn't tell anyone that their hashtags were changed. Responding to journalists the marketing firm said the campaign was meant to get people to vote in general, not for someone specifically, but didn't answer questions if they knew that their instructions were deliberately disregarded.

📝: The only theory that makes sense in light of these finds is that PNL tried to set up PSD to fail after the Constitutional Court booted Diana Șoșoacă off the president candidate list, which many believed led to a scenario Marcel Ciolacu vs George Simion and liberals would have been ”forced” to vote for Ciolacu instead of Simion because a liberal will never pick a nationalist. In other words, PNL or someone within PNL may have propped up Călin Georgescu to take revenge on PSD.

🔗 https://hotnews.ro/documente-pnl-a-finantat-din-bani-publici-campania-pentru-calin-georgescu-firma-pnl-sustine-ca-i-a-fost-modificata-campania-dar-exista-acte-care-dovedesc-ca-influencerii-au-respectat-indicatiile-pr-1866568

🇺🇸❌🇷🇴 Ukrainian newspaper, KyivPost, talking to three unnamed American and European officials, learned that the U.S. will withdraw a brigade or 800 troops from the 2k man strong garrison deployed in Romania!

This withdrawal might not be the last.

The news confirms a news report from April 2025 when it was said that the U.S. planned to withdraw 20k troops from Europe, Romania and Poland especially. The matter was a hot topic of debate in the Pentagon these past months and they decided to withdraw from Romania only, likely noting the increased commitments and deployments made by the French Army.

Both Republican and Democratic congressmen protested plans to reduce the troop garrison in Romania but their protests were ignored. Republican think tanks demanded that the American garrison be reduced as early as February 2025 citing the cancelled 2024 elections and the inadequate explanations for its cancellation as a motive.

An unnamed Romanian military official told KyivPost that the decision of the U.S. to withdraw troops was “hard to understand”considering that the number of U.S. troops deployed in Europe still hasn’t reached Cold War levels despite tensions with Russia reaching new highs.

This is understandable those that do not watch American politics and only get their news from the Romanian press who only bothers to use AI translation tools on articles written by other American mainstream publications.

The American Secretary of War (Defense) Pete Hegseth, has said multiple times this year that under him the American defense and strategic policy will reorient itself to Asia and the Americas. This was seconded by the foreign secretary, Marco Rubio, an ethnic Cuban migrant, who has ideological and personal reasons to fight with Cuba’s socialist allies, such as the Chavista regime in Venezuela.

Also about Rubio.. Literally not even a month ago he promised to the Romanian foreign minister, Oana Țoiu, that the U.S. won’t be removing troops from Romania. Trump himself too stated multiple times that he wants Europe to pay for its own security.

Romanian politicians have to realise at some point that the U.S. is not a trustworthy partner and a generally bad ally and need to adapt Romania’s foreign policy to this reality. They can start now and avoid the worst case scenario or put themselves into a similar situation like in 1940, when Romania bet on French and British support after they allowed the Germans to remilitarize the Rhineland and after they allowed to annex Czechoslovakia, found itself abandoned by the allies who gave it guarantees which ultimately were proven to be empty promises, with the consequences that followed like the Bessarabia Ultimatum, the 2nd Vienna Award and the Treaty of Craiova.

The U.S. has already proven multiple times that its promises are empty. How much longer until Romania changes course?

@Wallachian_Gazette