Coincidence? USAID Funds Cut, Romanian President Resigns

I doubt many of you have been following the drama in Romania–who does?–but if so you would know that the Romanian election was invalidated by the courts (at the behest of the European Union), and the incumbent president stayed on despite his term being up. 

Beege wrote about this Monday, and I want to throw in my 2 cents because this example shows how corrupt the system has become. 

This was all done to “protect democracy,” of course. Just as all the efforts to ban AfD in Germany are all about protecting “democracy,”

🚨🇪🇺 THIERRY BRETON: WE DID IT IN ROMANIA, WE’LL DO IT AGAIN IN GERMANY IF NEEDED

After Romania’s elections were canceled due to foreign interference, mostly on TikTok, former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton warns that Germany could be next.

Breton:

“Now we are equipped, and… pic.twitter.com/5qX2sk2f7d

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 10, 2025

I LOVE how the European Union gets elections canceled due to “foreign interference.” What can be greater interference than a transnational body canceling an election in a democratic country?

I have no dog in the hunt when it comes to Romania’s election. These days, it’s hard to have an opinion on anything you don’t deeply research because most of what we read is propaganda anyway, and likely was funded by the USAID in some fashion or another. Your news, paid for by Internews, which USAID funded to the tune of half a billion dollars. 

Perhaps the “far right” candidate really is a Putin stooge and a bad guy, but then again, I was told this about Trump, so who can I trust? Any time I hear “far right” or “Putin” I quit listening because what comes next is almost always pure BS. 

While the EU is the villain in this story, it turns out that USAID has been deeply involved in “reforming” Romanian society through “judicial reform” and, of course, building “civil society.” The US and EU have done much to “reform” the judicial system that has kept the just-resigned president whose term had already expired in power. 

When the EU-backed court cancels a legitimate vote over shadowy claims, is it protecting democracy or burying it? Klaus Iohannis may have fled the chaos, but the real question lingers: who decides the fate of a nation when elections are mere suggestions? If democracy is dead,…

— Evola (@MemeticPrimer) February 11, 2025

As I said, I don’t have a dog in the fight over Romania’s presidency, and if the US and EU really were only helping Romania build up a non-corrupt society, I would likely support the effort. On the other hand, George Soros has been the “democracy” guy in Eastern Europe for decades and has been our partner there and in the US, so “democracy” promotion means something different to them than to me. 

But let’s face it, when the EU and US complain loudly about “Russian interference” in the election–something that no doubt happens at some level through propaganda–it’s more than a little…hypocritical. We essentially invalidated the election because we didn’t like the results, which is a bit more interference than Russia producing TikToks. 

📝Romania is one of the most blatant cases of globalist intervention. And, of course, USAID is more than involved. @FilosofiaPolti on @hu_conservative👇 https://t.co/gP2975kXQG

— Hungarian Conservative (@hu_conservative) February 7, 2025

Really, that was the Russian “interference.” We canceled the election because Russia produced TikToks! And we are the democracy defenders. Or should I say, the EU and the Romanian courts did, at our behest. As Thierry Breton made clear, it was the EU which did the deed, using EU and USAID-backed courts in Romania. 

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis has resigned, a day before he faced an impeachment vote sparked by the cancellation of the country’s presidential election last year.

Opponents had been pushing to suspend him over his decision to remain in office until a new vote in May.

Romania’s top court in December controversially annulled the election because of Russian state meddling allegations Iohannis had helped raise.

The centrist, pro-EU leader cited national security concerns, but critics and candidates in the poll said his actions were undemocratic.

In December, just 48 hours before Romanians were due to vote in the presidential run-off election, the nation’s constitutional court made an unprecedented ruling scrapping the entire process.

That left the country without an incoming president. Iohannis – who has served two terms since 2014 – chose to stay in office until his successor could be elected.

But his role in the cancellation of the election, and his reluctance to lead the country decisively since then, has led to a groundswell of popular anger.

Tens of thousands of Romanians have demonstrated in the streets, and lawmakers were due to begin a parliamentary process this week to suspend him from office.

Both the left and the right in Romania are livid and actually joined together to fight this outrage, which is the proximate cause of Iohannis’ resignation. But one has to wonder when the chaos at USAID has something to do with it, as the financial flow to the transnationalists in Romania dries up. 

Iohannis, who has been president since 2014, was due to leave office after Romania’s presidential elections at the end of last year. However, his term was temporarily extended after the Constitutional Court ordered a rerun of the vote following concerns about Russian interference.

Romania has been in political turmoil since the first round of voting in November saw Călin Georgescu, a far-right independent, catapulted from obscurity into the lead. 

Shortly before the second round, Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled that the first round of voting had been so badly tainted by a Russian influence operation on social media that the entire process had to be scrapped and started over.

Iohannis was allowed to remain in office until the rerun of the presidential election, which is scheduled to begin on May 4. 

Now that USAID funds have been temporarily stopped, the Romanian president resigns. Coincidence? I doubt it. 

The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.

The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates around the world.

Conservatives around the world were targeted.

Romania is the latest example.… https://t.co/cmPqYojRzs

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 3, 2025

One thing is clear: “democracy” promotion means something to USAID bureaucrats and another thing to the rest of us. Democracy doesn’t mean empowering people to choose their futures; it means submission to the dictates of the transnational elite.