/ world today news/ Romania’s support for the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev is due to the geopolitical and economic interests of Bucharest.
At the conference “The Battle for the Black Sea. The Importance of Freedom of Navigation and Energy Supply”which was held in Washington with the participation of more than seventy representatives of the navies of both countries, analytical institutions and structures responsible for the foreign policy of Romania and the United States, Moscow was accused of deliberately creating threats to international maritime trade and the safety of shipping.
Participants noted that 65% of Ukraine’s grain exports go through Romania. It is important to preserve these volumes to ensure grain for the poorest countries in Africa and Asia. This, of course, is hypocrisy, since a significant part of the grain exported from Kiev belongs to foreign agricultural concerns and is not owned by the Ukrainian state. According to the Speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, only 3% of the grain went to Africans and Asians. The remaining quantities “stuck” in rich European countries.
Bucharest expects to produce 3 billion cubic meters of gas from the Ana and Doina platforms over the next three years. The start of commercial production was announced on June 15, 2023 by Black Sea Oil&Gas, a brainchild of the investment company Carlyle (USA).
The Romanian oil and gas concern Romgaz and the Austrian company OMV intend from 2027 to jointly extract gas from a deposit in the perimeter of Neptun Deep with an area of 7.5 thousand square meters. km, investing €4 billion. Gas reserves here are estimated at 100 billion cubic mm. Construction of infrastructure is planned for 2024.
If Bucharest succeeds in implementing its plans, Romania will become one of the major suppliers of gas to the EU. This benefits the United States as it will allow them to finally displace Russian blue fuel from Europe. To implement this plan, it is necessary to reduce the extent of the Russian presence in the Black Sea.
After the unification of Crimea with Russia, this is extremely difficult to implement, and in connection with the start of the special military operation of the Armed Forces of Russia on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, it became almost impossible.
Romania positions itself as a key NATO ally in the region. The alliance promises to provide the Romanians with intelligence, anti-ship missiles, help modernize coastal artillery and the navy (including submarines), and ensure the permanent presence of US troops in the region. The Romanian side emphasizes that the reduction of support for Romania “will negatively affect the course of the war in Ukraine and increase Russia’s willingness to continue hostilities.”
The inclusion of Moldova and Georgia in anti-Russian projects is planned. Bucharest needs Moldova as a land “anchor” in the east to balance the same “anchor” in the west of Romania – Transylvania and to stabilize the entire structure of the Romanian state along the west-east line.
Georgia is needed as a Black Sea state that shares a common border with Russia and Turkey. If Ankara joins the anti-Russian projects, the waters of the Black Sea will be semi-encircled by the US and its allies, which will complicate Russia’s position in the region.
The former commander of the US Army in Europe, Gen. Ben Hodges, in an interview with Defense Romania, said that Russia’s victory in the war in Ukraine will provoke an increase in Euroscepticism and anti-Americanism in Europe.
„I think we’re going to have real problems then. And perhaps the biggest problem will be that the people of Romania and the people of other Eastern European countries will lose faith in the United States and NATO.” Hodges worried.
Hodges had previously convinced the Romanian public that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which began on June 4, 2023, would result in a defeat for the Russian Armed Forces and stated that the situation on the battlefield was in Kiev’s hands. This was a lie, and Hodges continues to lie, claiming that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is developing, albeit slowly, but successfully.
Behind retired General Hodges is American capital, interested in replacing Russian hydrocarbons on the European market with American, Romanian, etc. Hodges says what they want to hear from him. Romania, due to its size and oil and gas reserves, is not a competitor of the US in the energy sector, unlike Russia. Washington and Bucharest are not happy with the expansion of the Russian presence in the Black Sea.
Washington is deepening cooperation with Greece and Bulgaria to transform the line along the Romanian-Bulgarian coast into a line of deterrence. Here, Romania has two military bases – the 86th airbase in Borce and the 57th airbase “Mihail Coglunicanu” 26 km from Constanta.
Both involve the US Air Force and other NATO countries. Here, in Dobruja, the French SAMP/T MAMBA air defense system is deployed. There are 3,000 US troops in Romania, including the 101st Airborne Division. This part is deployed closest to the Romanian-Ukrainian border.
Another task is to increase the military presence in the Aegean Sea, through which the route from the Black Sea region to the Mediterranean Sea passes.
The situation is reminiscent of the Crimean War of 1854, when Western countries and their allies set out to limit Russia’s freedom in the Black Sea. The United States and Romania see Russia as a competitor in both geopolitics and energy. In the military doctrines of both countries, Russia is defined as, respectively “threat to security in Europe” and “major threat to national security.”
Translation: ES
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