Geopolitics of Romania.
by Alexandr Dughin
1.Romanian geniuses and romanian identity.
Romania has given the world,especially in the 20th century,a whole range of world class geniuses:Nae Ionescu,Mircea Eliade,Emil Cioran,Eugen Ionescu,Stefan Lupascu,Jean Parvulescu,Vsile Lovinescu,Mihail Valsan and many others.
Altough a small country in Eastern Europe,Romania had,in the intelectual field a semnificative contribution to civilisation,comparable to that of the greau european nations,almost surpassing them.This caracteristic of romanian intelectualism reflects the spirit of european thought,indissolubly connected with the spirit of tradition,having its origins,with the ground,roots and tendencies in Antiquity as well as in the eternal european orthodox Orient,which remained virtually unchanged.
The italian professor Claudio Mutti in his article "Mircea Eliade and the unity of Eurasia" refers to the "eurasian nature of the romanian culture".He quotes Eliade:"I felt the descendat and heir of an interesting culture,because it's situated between two worlds:the western world,pure european,and the oriental world.I draw my roots from this two worlds.The western one,through the latin language and by the roman inheritance in customs.But,i was also drawing my roots from a culture influenced by the Orient and rooted in the neolithic.All this are true for a romanian but I think that they are just as true for a bulgarian,a serbo-croat,and finally for the Balkans,for south-eastern Europe and a part of Russia."(M. Eliade, L’épreuve du Labyrinthe, Entrétiens avec Claude-Henri Rocquet, Pierre Belfond, Paris, 1978, p. 26 – 27)
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2.Romania and the structure of her geopolitics option.(euroatlantism and eurocontinentalism)
And now,a few words about the geoplitics of Romania.In the current conditions the term of "Romania's geoplitics" is not apropiate if we consider Romania as a subject of geopolitics.In the architecture of the contemporary world such subject doesn't exist.This comes from the logic of globalist implementation,situation in which the problem is presented thus:there will be one World State,with one world goverment,ruled and dominated by the "rich West",mostly by the USA or an equilibrium will be established between the "large spaces" (Grossraum) of the "new empires" which will integrate whate wete,until then,"nation states".In our world the passing from sovereign nation states will be made towards a world goverment(unipolar world) or towards a new world empire(multipolar world).
Romania's size as a state doesn't allow us to say that in both cases Romania,not even theoretically can become a "pol" ,situatian in which even today's Russia,with all her nuclear armament,natural resources and messianic history finds herself.
Under such conditions,"the geoplotics of Romania" falls under the category "geoploitics of a united Europe".This fact is not just a present political certainty,Romania beeing a member of the EU,but also inevitably comes from her's geoplitical situation.But more then that the "geoplitic of a united Europe" herself is not something guaranteed and secure.Even Europe as a whole,the EU,can count on sovereignity only in a multipolar world and only in such a case Europe will be sovereign and therefore,Romania as a part of it will be sovereign.Adopting the unipolar model of american dominance which refuses Europe's sovereignity,will afect Romania to,as she's a part of Europe.
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3.Geopolitics of the "sanitary cordon"
In the question of establishing the geoplitic identity of Europe we can identify the next model:-the countries of "New Europe"-eastern european countries which tend to have a strong rusophobe tendency,thus joining the euro-atlantic orientation and distancing themselves from the actual continental tendencies of "Old Europe"-firstly France and Germany(the UK is a traditional american ally).This situation has a long history:Estern Europe was a permanent area of fighting between Europe and Russia an example beeing that in the 19th and begining of the 20th century the UK deliberately used this region as a "sanitary cordon" conceived to prevent an eventual russo-german alliance which would prevent the end of the anglo-saxon dominance in the world.Even in our days the same thing happens,the only difference beeing that today the emphasis is on energy projects,in the countries of the "sanitary cordon" beeing introduced the ideea that is also a a retribution for the soviet occupation in the 20th century.New arguements,old geopolitics.
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4.Greater Romania.
How can we understand in this situation the nationalist geopolitic project of Romania,known as "Greater Romania"? First of all it's about the historical tendency to build up the romanian national state occured in different historical and geopolitical situations.Here we can rely on history,starting with the ancient geto-dacians,mentioning Burebista and Decebal.Later on,the principalities of Moldova and Romanian Country(Valahia) were formed ,states that existed independently untill their conquering by the turks.
It's worthy the mention of Michael the Brave the one who managed at the begining of the 17th century the union between Valahia,Moldova and Transilvania.Romania won her national independence only in the 19th century,this fact beeing recognised at the Berlin Congress in 1878.Romania's strategic weight depended,even in the conditiond of her independence,by the geopolitical forces in her vecinity.It was a relative and fragile sovereignity based on the external power balance between the South (Ottoman empire),West (Austro-Hungary,Germany,France,England) and East(Russia).Therefore the "Greater Romania" project has remained an utopy altough it took a teoretical integral expression with the plans of building a romanian traditionalist state by the teoreticians of the "Iron Guard"(Corneliu Zelea Codreanu,Horia Sima),and,in the next period the Bucharest Real Politik was forced by bigger forces than Romania's potential, to choose,Antonescu chose Germany,Ceausescu the Soviet Union.
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5.Using romanian nationalism by the "atlantism"
One of the most obvious usage of the "Greater Romania" ideea manifests herself in our days when this ideea is beeing used in the interest of atlantism.This has a clear objective:romanian nationalism(perfectly legitim and reasonable at its core) in Real Politik appealing to the ideea of integrating the Republic of Moldova within Romania.It looks like all flows naturally.But this legitimate wish to unite a sinle ethinc group into one country,in the conditions that this country is a NATO member will lead to the frontieres of this organization(NATO) even closer to Russia,and,in this case,the contradictions between Russia and the EU will only grow.In other terms the national utopia "Greater Romania" in practic,transforms itself in a simple extension of the "sanitary cordon",which will not benefit the EU but only the US and atlantism.
To the integration of Moldova we can add Transnistria which has a strategical position for Russia in this region.
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In a certain stage Transnistria will become a very important base for Russia in this region.In such a perspective Greater Romania will become an impediment which the atlantist strategists have foreseen all along.
The frictions between Romania and Hungary,even with the Ukraine are not important for the atlantists and this aspect of romanian nationalism will not have the support of the atlantists besides the fact that at a certain point the USA will consider that they can use this factor to destabilize the situation after the model of Yugoslavia.
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Now the bold part is more and more of a threat as we recently had a letter signed by many US congressmen interfearing in our policies with the hungarian minority and backing them.The russkie may be on to something here.There are increased rumours of "Magyar Garda" paramilitaries preparing to start arm rebellion on Kosovo model and then beg for western interfearence crying wolf(genocide)
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