Comments on: Romania at the end of 2013: an exercise in geopolitics http://thetarpit.org/2013/romania-at-the-end-of-2013 "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:21:18 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2013/romania-at-the-end-of-2013#comment-3119 spyked Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:23:23 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2013/romania-at-the-end-of-2013#comment-3119 Oh man, the abundant source of lulz in this one! Let's just leave aside the fact that Ukraine got way more headlines than Romania (yes, what else do you think this was supposed to signify) -- I hope everyone loves how they exchanged Yanukovych, the dude under Putin's "militarized" spell, with the superstar Zelenskyy who now rules with an iron fist and makes use of all that NATO infrastructure to wage a war with Putin. Does anyone even wonder who's gonna pay for them bills? Now moving on the main subject, it's terribly lulzy how Romania's pretense to relevance, then, as now, yielded absolutely nothing in particular for that poor country. Yes, they did manage to drive Chevron out for good, since Chevron won't even touch the gas reserves in the Black Sea now, but... what else? Well, naught else. Romania was simply a geostrategic bridge to Joe's project, and it's going to serve this role as long as Russia needs "extending". I have no idea when that's going to be over, but it will be over one day, and then I fear so will be NATO's interest in the region. After all, this region has gone through so many Aurelian retreats over millenia. Oh man, the abundant source of lulz in this one!

Let's just leave aside the fact that Ukraine got way more headlines than Romania (yes, what else do you think this was supposed to signify) -- I hope everyone loves how they exchanged Yanukovych, the dude under Putin's "militarized" spell, with the superstar Zelenskyy who now rules with an iron fist and makes use of all that NATO infrastructure to wage a war with Putin. Does anyone even wonder who's gonna pay for them bills?

Now moving on the main subject, it's terribly lulzy how Romania's pretense to relevance, then, as now, yielded absolutely nothing in particular for that poor country. Yes, they did manage to drive Chevron out for good, since Chevron won't even touch the gas reserves in the Black Sea now, but... what else? Well, naught else. Romania was simply a geostrategic bridge to Joe's project, and it's going to serve this role as long as Russia needs "extending". I have no idea when that's going to be over, but it will be over one day, and then I fear so will be NATO's interest in the region.

After all, this region has gone through so many Aurelian retreats over millenia.

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