Journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu reacted, on Wednesday, to the interview given by President Nicușor Dan to the Politico publication, stressing that it is “the first decisive and clear foreign policy gesture” of it.
“Finally, President Dan’s first decisive and clear foreign policy gesture – the interview given in Brussels to the prestigious publication Politico. The President put aside the humiliating and useless curling and curling language practiced for months by many European leaders towards Trump”wrote Cristian Tudor Popescu on his Facebook page.
He recalled the statements made by President Nicușor Dan, according to which: “The world has changed. We went from – in a certain sense – a moral way of doing things, to a pragmatic and economic way of acting».
“It’s the first time since the real estate shark’s reinstatement at the White House that I’ve heard a head of state say the word “morality””the journalist also wrote.
The journalist added that: “Indeed, post-war Western politics was much more democratic. At the UN, in the EU, in NATO, small countries had the right to speak, to vote and even to veto. The United States helped many underdeveloped countries, tried to open a path to democracy for them, defended Europe from the Russian danger. All this is about morality. But Trump, who is destroying this world order like a rabid bulldozer, the friend and client of Jeffrey Epstein, is a amoral ins. The network of international relations, delicate and woven with difficulty, is reduced by the choice of the Americans to a tribal policy, based on the principle of “who has the bigger stick, is right”.
According to him: “The Trump administration’s attempts to break up the EU are exposed as such by President Dan: “It’s ok for American politicians to express their opinions. But it’s a problem if the US tries to influence European politics in an undemocratic way – for example, by paying European media, as the Russians do””. He believes that the US-Europe alliance is “natural”because they share (rather shared – nm) more values than other regions of the world.
“Does President Dan think European leaders are ‘weak’? “Yes. There is some truth to what Trump says. Europe can be too slow to make decisions. For example, it took months of talks and a summit last week that lasted until 3am to agree on a way to finance Ukraine. But in the end, the big decision has been made – 90 billion euros so that Ukraine can continue to fight Putin over the next 2 years, despite the opposition of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic»”he also wrote.
CTP also claimed that: “No Dan has any illusions about the long-talked-about word ‘peace'”recalling that the head of state stated: “I’m more of a pessimist than an optimist in the short term. Putin and his ilk believe that an imposed peace in 2-3 months would be more profitable for them than peace now. That’s why they’re attacking so fiercely, to wrest some more territory.”
“Dan agrees with Zelenski that Trump needs to increase pressure on Putin. He considers the sanctions on Lukoil and Rosneft to be “extremely strong”. And he welcomes the new willingness of the US to provide Ukraine with NATO-style security guarantees. The President of Romania has no reservations on the side of Ukraine. “We support Ukraine. Any kind of peace in which the aggressor is rewarded is not good for Europe and for the future security of the world. The decision of peace is on the shoulders of Ukraine. They suffer so much so much so that we cannot blame him for whatever decision he makes”. After more than 10 years, Romania’s voice is heard in Europe and in the world”the journalist concluded.
