Romania is being marched, eyes half-closed, into a confrontation with Russia that our people neither asked for nor consented to. The state’s current doctrine of “readiness” looks less like defense and more like a reckless provocation dressed up as patriotism: mobilizing reservists to prove a geopolitical point is malpractice, and it will make cannon fodder of Romanian sons and daughters in a war that is not ours.

For eight years, from 2014 to 2022, the Ukrainian army was recruiting, being financed, trained, and equipped. Eight years of preparation! The real spending figures on rearming aren’t even known. Estimates range anywhere from $150 billion to $300 billion, all paid by the United States of America.

So, Mr. ‘poodle general’ Gheorghiță Vlad  – how can you say that Romania could resist like Ukraine, when Ukraine, a much larger country both in size and population, prepared for eight years, had hundreds of billions invested in it, and only then went to war with Russia? And how long did Ukraine last? Nothing. I don’t think they’ve had a single day of victory in these almost four years of war, which we’ll soon mark in February. Nothing. The Russians went in with old equipment just to use it up. What nonsense is he talking?

If the United States itself is afraid of Russia, we’re supposed to go to war with Russia? We’re supposed to go into Moldova to ‘defend’ it from Russia? That’s the idea, we’re going as cannon fodder. Say the truth! Pray! Pray! Be responsible!

Bolojan, you have two daughters. Nicușor, you have two kids — a boy and a girl. Oh, yours are still little, so you say: ‘Mine won’t be called up.’ Aren’t you ashamed? Bolojan says: ‘Well, mine are girls, they’re not targeted…’ Yes, but other people’s children are! And ours too! They even tried to send me. How can you not care?

Any Romanian soldier, whether we send a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, or a hundred thousand, though we’re far from that, would become cannon fodder, all of them slaughtered within minutes given the level of weaponry Russia possesses, if, absurdly, Russia ever wanted to attack us. What is this madness of going to war?

Radu Tudor, Mihai Gâdea, Hellvig’s disciples say ‘let’s go to war!’ Why, Eduard Hellvig? So you can live comfortably while strolling through Amsterdam with Ion Țiriac Jr., as you did this week? Hellvig, who’s about one and a half meters tall, and Ion Țiriac Jr., who’s two meters tall, walking hand in hand through Amsterdam — interesting, isn’t it? They’re such good friends, holding hands…

Ion Ion Țiriac and Eduard Hellvig, go on, tell me quickly if I’m wrong. Challenge me, and I’ll tell you the exact streets, where you ate, and what hotel you stayed at in Amsterdam, you two. You think I’ve stayed alive all these years fighting these people without knowing what I’m up against? I have to be informed. I’ve got a few friends, very few, that I still get along with, people I still defend or meet with, but that’s about it.

This is utter madness! We have to stop this stupidity about war. Romania has no business being in any war with Russia. We must reconcile with Russia. Fortunately, we have the channel of our shared past, yes, a communist one, unfortunately, but a shared past nonetheless. That’s life. We functioned for half a century within the same systems. Okay, they hurt us, they exploited us, but there are still common bridges. We are both Orthodox. Putin will not attack an Orthodox country. He has never threatened us. He doesn’t confuse the fact that we have idiotic leaders, totally subordinated to the interests of the Rothschild family, with the Romanian people as a whole. But the Romanian people must wake up!

By Cozmin Gușă