So, the supreme court of Romania cancelled the previous Presidential election, ostensibly because of Russian interference.
The guy who won last time, however, will probably win the next elections in May. He recently stated:
Georgescu will prosecute the judges who canceled the elections for high treason once he becomes president
“There will be a commission at the highest level to analyze these abuses, which amount to high treason and an attack on national security.
We are not playing with this.” pic.twitter.com/Wxe6JEHQ9q
— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) February 19, 2025
Westerners don’t seem to get how you do lawfare. If Democrats and/or the deep state were going to prosecute Trump and his associates, they needed to make sure Trump wound up in jail and unable to run for President. The purges which have happened since his re-election are only logical: why wouldn’t he try and destroy the people and the mechanisms used to go after him?
Same thing with Romania. Cancel the election, then don’t lock Georgescu up? Were they smoking their own crack? Did they genuinely think something would change the numbers in the next election?
I think what Pakistan has done to Imran Khan is despicable, but once you break norms and go after someone who normally would be beyond bounds, you have to finish the job, which the Pakistani deep state (military) did: they threw him in prison on essentially bogus charges.
Western liberals are good at foreign coups and whatnot, but they haven’t quite figured out how to use lawfare properly against truly powerful people in their own countries. That, I suppose, is a good thing, but it is rather pathetic and it isn’t a weakness shared by their domestic opponents.