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HELL YEAH! My county is making News on Warfronts!
OH FUCK! My country is making News on Warfronts!
Yup
That’s normally not a good thing brother 😂
@@user-sw3vj7jh4c we know! 😂
Democracy is an illusion.it's oligarchy(and the Intel agencies) or monarchy(Saudi Arabia,Russia,China,North Korea)
Warfronts is like Twitter - the aim of the game is to _not_ be the main character.
Why would Russia want to meddle with elections in Romania? Many reasons: Transnistria, weakening NATO, weakening Europe, weakening EU, weakening Ukraine, Black Sea domination, etc.
There's nothing like having a boogeyman to void an election.
The EUROPEAN Union IS meddling in the Romanian elections.
@@NS_Voiceright, "boogeyman", nothing to see here commrade
@@NS_Voiceyou're incredibly ignorant . Yes the authorities are incompetent and slow but made the right call . Hopefully they jail this traitor
@@mihaimoldo Russia said the same with Navalny
0:00 Romania
12:03 Hezbollah
20:35 Ethiopia
Short lil situation room today, huh?
Much appreciated CelesteO
Thank you!
That's a good thing. That means there's not a lot of 'historical events' happening.
@@aaroncabatingan5238 Oh there certainly are
@@aaroncabatingan5238 nah, it means that the "historic events" are becoming so big that they deserve entire videos.
I errrr missed the full stop in the title and was very confused about how hezbollah is manoevering the romanian election
As a Romanian, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the Indian Space Agency would meddle in our elections
A crafty bunch!
@@WeylandYutani92You are the best "what about it" person. :)) Daca ai 8 clase, normal ca tu crezi ca India are interes aici in zona. Dar rusii au de 200 de ani interes in zona, asta pentru cine mai citeste cate ceva, in afara de prostii pe net!
@@claudiu8426 Actually, they annexed Basarabia in 1812, so you can safely say "more than 200 years" (with 6% more).
Anyway, I know a few propaganda techniques and methods, I'm a reserve officer, I read the Military Doctrine of Russia and I work in cybersecurity, the private sector (not affiliated with any intelligence service or the state) and I can also safely say that Russia is waging a hybrid (nonlinear, in their military terminology) war against Romania. Against the whole West, in fact, except I don't have firewall logs to prove that.
Powers of Allah?
Mr. Georgescu declared a campaign budget of 0 euroes. That is so effin suspicious.
He was using rubles.
We use lei in Romania so most parties should declare 0 euros.
I have no doubt that he himself spent 0, while the government supporting him spent millions.
You know what else is suspicious how the entire PNL-PSD-USR shadow alliance has deep connections to the jews in the romanian sectet services
No TV appearance, no money spent, but he used TIK TOk with some promoters, and it hit fast 😉 who knows, politics Georgescu is been for years ....He's not new, only new jn romanian politics
"To have Russia as a neighbour is like living in the same house with a rabid dog ". -
Romanian proverb
Thank you, Warfronts!
There is no such proverb
@@raduignat5440 Yes, there is. I know this from my grandma. So, I know what I'm talking about. Now, "davai ceas, davai palton"!
living next to Romania is like having your wallet stolen every day.
WW2 proverb?
N-am auzit niciodată acest proverb
Greetings from NYC kid in Romania…just want to clarify that LIBERAL in Romania doesn’t mean the same as Liberal in USA. It’s the opposite. Liberals in Romania are conservatives. The closest you can get to the true definition of Liberal in Romania is Centrist Left, with emphasis on Centrist.
I've noticed that about foreign politics. They seem to be the opposite names of Americans.
@@StrikeBuster-b2bin continental Europe a SOCIAL DEMOCRAT = centrist left, while a RIGHT LIBERAL = centrist right. Full RIGHT and full LEFT are extremists, either fascists or nazi (RIGHT) or communist (LEFT). We mostly like to play in the middle with tendencies towards left or right.
@@StrikeBuster-b2b the confusion comes from the different meanings of liberalism. Most of the world uses it with the meaning it has in economics, thus meaning promoting neoliberal economic policies such as privatisation, free markets, etc. The US politics term is more referring to liberal values.
@@StrikeBuster-b2b- It is the other way around. Liberalism comes from the Latin word liber meaning freedom. Traditional liberals in the European sense is for more individual freedoms, anything from being able to hire and fire workers at will, the right to self defense, to drive inefficient, fuel hungry cars.
At the opposite end of the political spectrum we have (at lest in Europe) the authoritian left who wants the government to control everything.
that's wrong, liberals in Romania are not conservatives, they are like the US leftists. but they call themselves right wing. that is the other way around campared to the US. The left here are the conservatives. it's not an ideologic difference. hust a nomenclature one
When people ask what's wrong with having Tik Tok. This. This is exactly why Tik Tok is being banned in the US.
Tiktok is being banned in the U.S. because it's the biggest competitor to the big tech companies that the politicians own stock in. And because it threatens the government's control of the narrative.
Doesn't justify invalidating an entire election two days before it happens, the votes were legitimate.
Tik tok isn’t being banned in the US 🤷♂️
if thats the case then all media youtube facebook all media outlets should be banned in america they all are democratic party's puppets and that has been proven. the establishment just don't like it when the table turns (X platform joe rogan)
the media even said that trump would be lucky if he got 30% of the votes even on election night
Simon, in Romania election campaign money are provided by the state mostly. So they don't really "scrape whatever money they can" for a new campaign, they get it from the state budget. They also use some donations, yes, but they don't start with 0.
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
THIS! + "Parties, the fastest growing business in Romania. Their funding has increased 26 times in eight years and has come to cost almost 380 million lei (76 mil EURO) per year"
I really appreciate news compiled in one place. I feel like that should be more of an advertising point to this channel.
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
Or in other words........ a news channel? Lol
@@bruderschweigen6889 At the same time, they still cherry pick stuff, so if you call it that, many people will probably come and say "you didn't report on this and that".
Weapons that go to Ukraine, transit Romania and Poland. Hungary doesn't allow weapons transit due to friendly relations with Russia and Putin. If Romania blocks weapons transit, the southern areas near the Black Sea of Ukraine will be the most vulnerable because Romania is the southern neighbour (Poland is the north-west neighbour). Those are the areas Russia wants to conquer and also a Ukraine landlocked with no sea is a weak country. So Romania's importance to Ukraine is as high as the US aid!
OK, therefor people of Romania must not have a say in the matter. Although many trapped in war are ethnic Romanians. They can only be enthusiastic about it 100% of population.
Do you know that Ukraine has Romanian land and people that was anexed by USSR? Would you think that would be enough reason for split opinions without Tik Tok?
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Soo... none of this bullshit in he video has anything to do with real reasons and democracy lol.
Good point
Similar stuff happening in Bulgaria as well. Fortunately those parties don't get so much support yet, but it's growing. Which is mind-blowing to me. Seems like people don't remember the communist dictature just 30 years ago.
What the fk does this have to do with communism??
Good luck, brother
As a romanian, i feel for you, going through the same brain washing as my country
@@killerboy4441because Bulgaria as well as Romania are x-communist countries, that lived in extremely poor conditions under Russian control. And this new movement is meant to drive these countries away from EU, NATO and slowly back under Russian influence.
@@killerboy4441 A lot of European countries have been under Russian/Soviet control before, so those countries should remember how shitty it was 30 years ago. So it’s strange that people seem to want to go back to that time.
Not understanding that a water molecule is two hydrogen and 1 oxygen atom is the kind of thing that should disqualify you from... any job.
Water ain't infomation like that fool says. True Romanian patriots know that water is posion! True patriots only drink Tuica made at the village brewer from plums gathered from the backyard💪💪
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
He was actually talking about a book made by some japanese guy. I think the worse thing he said is that coca cola contains nanochips
He was referring to Masaru Emoto's research showing that water has memory and reacts to directed human intent - check it out, it's actually a very interesting and easily replicable experiement.
@@banu6301 He also said he met an alien species at the UN. So....
1) The pre-election polls have been off by a lot all year in Romania in 2024. We had EU parliamentary elections and local elections, and the polls were atrociously off.
2) The Constitutional Court of Romania disqualified Diana Sosoaca, and all of her voters (8% according to parliamentary election results) went to Calin Georgescu. Had she not been disqualified, neither of them would have been in the first two.
3) The protest vote can be easier cast in Romania for the President because it is very simple for the parliament to get rid of a sitting president.
4) The dangerous precedent is not that the results of the election were annulled, it is that at the moment the sitting president is using that as an excuse to remain in power past the end of his mandate which will end on December 21st 2024.
What exactly is the issue with "The president stays in power until the election happens"? Do you want for the executive branch of the Romanian government to just... become vacant, and basically non-functioning? Obviously, if you don't want for the government to become non-functioning, SOMEONE has to be the president - either the previous president, or some interim president, appointed by parliament. But I have no doubt you'd call parliament appointing an interim president as "dAngErOuS", too. Honestly, the only compromise solution is for the previous president to remain, because at LEAST he's elected by Romanians.
Not sure what's the big fuss, really.
@@reaperz5677 Actually, according to the Romanian constitution, the president of the Senate would become the interim president. The "problem" with the same president remaining past his mandate is that once the precedent becomes accepted, it is guaranteed to be repeated in the future by other presidents who are not willing to leave.
Romania is still a very young democracy, all precedents set now will have ripple effects for many decades to come.
Maybe Romania needs to have this president remain in power and continue annulling the election results two more times for the constitution to place a safeguard against that happening in the future.
I honestly am not certain what would be better for the long-term health of Romanian democracy.
Polls being atrociously off is a problem with all polls they usually just do them in bigger cities and stuff 😂 i dont think they go into rural areas much
@@reaperz5677And what happens when you have a president stay in power due to an election not being able to be processed?
Bingo, you're coming closer to a dictatorship by pure chance
That's why it's a dangerous precedent despite interference
4 bots, excelllent
Listening to Simon trying to pronounce Romanian names :)))
Ikr 😂, Ciucă would be spelled Chewcuh 😂😂😂
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
I was looking for this comment 😂😂 keylin georgescu
Still not fast enough; we need you to broadcast live, mate.
That he needs to predict the news to even try to keep up
Simon on national TV, more of the news at 6 stay tuned
Clone Simon
@@--enyo--already the case
Disagree
Russia is hiring troops. Any Romanian who truely believes in Moscow is welcome to sign up for their "slightly armed" forces.
'Slightly armed' has me wheezing that's too good
0:00 - Chapter 1 - Romania Invalidates an Election
12:05 - Chapter 2 - What's Next for Hezbollah
20:35 - Chapter 3 - Ethiopa's drone war
Goergescu wasn't actually in the UN either, just one of his many lies
Ahh yes, democracy canceling political rivals.
except that in this case, they did the right thing. the romanian constitution requires the elections to be fair and the laws on campaign financing are clear. CG is expected to go to jail with multiple penal cases being opened in his name and those surrounding him.
@@mariuspuiu9555 what a joke of a thing to say. Elections didn't turn out how they wanted... they did the right thing in invalidating the peoples decision yet calling it the democratic way.
@@mariuspuiu9555 Yeah i heard the same thing about Trump as well. Jailing the opposition.... always works.
@@21preend42 "the opposition". this is a criminal that used huge sums of money illegally.
if you think breaking the law is normal and the justice system should do nothing then you have serious problems dude.
There seem to be gaps in understanding the complexity of the Romanian political scene, which makes your approach focus primarily on surface-level activities.
You can extrapolate from this a wider truth in his reporting
it's mostly correct. he doesn't need to go into more details. tl;dr an pro-russian and pro-fascists extremist was caught cheating in the elections so the elections were annulled.
You made it sound as if Ciolacu was from Iohannis’s (former) party, but that’s not true. KI is from PNL, Ciolacu from PSD.
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
@@vespasiancloscan7077 And all of them a Bunch of THIVES, AND WE HAVE MORE THEN ENOUGH FRAUDS AND HIGH SCALES OF CORRUPTION! PEOPLE ARE HATING THEM, THEY KNOW THAT, BUT THEY GET FORWARD WITH THE HELP OF IOHANNIS REGIME
Thanks for your work
preope in Romania are sick and tired of this sharade...many want to skip voting on the next elections, because of political fatigue and lack of fluent politicians
Yes it looks like a mess even before this Russian puppet came around.
The Russian agenda pisses me off but so does the EU’s lgbt woke agenda too.
i won't skip it. i'm actually glad that for once the laws were defended in Romania. now i just want to see that traitor in jail.
Good to have news compiled in one place. Thanks 😮
Can u also add maps plz for more clarity ? It would be very helpful. ❤
if the voters will see this, will say that it is "out of context" - idiocracy in progress in Romania
More divisive propaganda. That seems like all this leftoid democrat shill/grifter spews. It's clear to see which side he's on: the corrupt democrat/neocon warmongers and corporate globalist uniparty. NOT The American People.
Do you find it suspicious that Mr. Georgescu claims the campaign budget is 0 euros?
I must say, I was not expecting to see a Gamer Supps cup on this channel. Also love the content!
Simon, I love your videos and all your content…but, my friend…do you ever sleep?
He has three twins..soo the lab accident turned out with pleasant results
He ain’t ur friend 😂
Remember he's based in the Czech Republic and has an international editing and writing crew.
His magical beard is the source of his energy to do all the channels he has. There's no need for sleep. 😂
He records them in batches, and he has a team of writers and editors so he can focus on the recording. From what I gather based on things he's mentioned in his many videos, it's basically his day job. Drops his kids off at school, drives to his office, spends most of the day recording. He is involved in picking the subject matter to some extent, at least for some of his channels, so he's not a pure talking head but that's definitely the part he's chosen to focus on.
Thanks to our current Romanian political parties and biased constitutional court, the Romanian people has been protected to save Romanian democracy from people's vote. We are very great for our politicians. For sure we are going to vote for them this time. They message was clear. We shouldn't vote for someone who is unexpected by them to win.
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Georgescu "scientist" status is as valid as Elena's Ceausescu "scientist" status =))))))))))))
"...it's important to zoom out and look at the whole picture"
*camera zooms in on Simon's face* 😅
Thanks for shedding light on the Ethiopian war. We are grateful
Russia, spending a lot of money interferening in other countries instead of getting indoor plumbing and toilets outside of Moscow and st Petersburg
Pennies compared to CIA stuff, they barely need to do anything when the common Romanian is tired of their sold out Politicians, aint no surprise all around Europe people tired of the same people governing us.
You exiting your little bubble of comfortable narratives ? Nah never gonna happen.
You dont know how many people like you I have encountered spouting the exact same copy pasted argument, its like all of you are npcs in game or something.
I’m not convinced Assad ever had chemical weapons.
If you think I’m wrong remember when Sadam for sure 100% had WMDs….
Unlike sadam it's been documented assad has actually used said weapons at low scales against his own people
There is evidence of Assad using chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, sometimes around 2013-2015. If you want, look for official reports and videos showing the casualties after chemical weaponry attacks.
@@amyarmstrong8587 that has been debunked repeatedly, you fell for propaganda
Bro, i hate it when they call parties "far right." Then you look at their policies, oh mild nationalism yk upholding traditional religious customs and respecting the military fiscally conservative mild on some social policies meh about the LGBTQ nah bro far right
If you're going to call them far right, then explain in detail why you dont look biased
Anything normal seems to them extreme, because THEY are extreme. They are far left, and everything moderate and reasonable seems far right to them.
I don’t know how it works in all countries but generally you would use indépendant classifications.
For example, there is a specific gouvernement body in France that regulates and classifiers political parties, so everyone knows whether they are extreme/moderate…etc.
But consider that these parties may be presented like this going off where the political center was just before the election.
@@oldscorp fair enough
Far right are ultranationalists, not "mild" nationalism. "Upholding traditional religious customs" and "respecting the military" are those buzzwords I hear for Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage and German AfD. Saying you are for those things doesn't make it so, and believing it is making you a victim of populism. Take it from a Croatian who is conservative, and I can smell bs from the Adriatic coast to the border with Serbia.
What are realistically his policies as president? Compromising Romania's membership in NATO? Compromising support for Ukraine? Maybe even sabotaging Romania's entry into Schengen which is less than a month away? "We need to care about our own, by blaming the transnational organizations that helped us prosper in the last 20 years"?
@@Intreductor the point literally flew over your head
About romania, I had the chance to ask a lot of my family why they voted for georgescu and its simply because they didn't like the social views of the others. Not because he is "pro" russia. They mostly would have voted for sosoaca, but since she wasn't allowed to candidate they chose to vote for the next closest person.
For the record, I did not vote as I din't live in romania. But from my point of view this was very undemocratic and the romanian government used russia as an excuse to not let georgescu win. The voting had already started in some places before they cancelled it and georgescu seemed to be winning by a large margin against the runner up in the first round.
The dude is a pro-russia nutjob who thinks romania should leave nato and reinstate mandatory conscription for men. He doesn’t believe people have ever been to the moon. He believes in faith healing over medicine. He doesn’t believe in vaccines. And he was part of some freemason order in italy for a while, where he picked up all sorts of conspiracy theories. And this is just the things I know about him off the top of my head. He’s an alex-jones “chemicals in the water turn the frickin frogs gay” type of crazed lunatic. He doesn’t belong anywhere near any position of power.
The asshole was polling at 2%. You don’t jump from 2% to 23% without election interference from outside forces. He has always been a fringe alt-right idiocrat. Even a 5% difference from polling to actual results is reasonable. But a 20% jump? That shit reeks of foreign powers making plays to destabilize the country.
Romania did the right thing by anulling the first round of the election. It’s surprising to see it actually do something about russian meddling when no one else is doing anything to combat it, but they made the right decision.
maybe on a political level it make sense to vote for this guy but on a geopolitical this guy is an issue, not from Romania, but the moment i heard anyone in the EU been closer to Russia, it gets me in my nervs, however is it true that political landscape in a lot of countries makes the far left look like a bunch of clown lately
This is how most of romania feels. The election was stolen from them
As a romanian he is very very suspicious ..for example in an interview 2 years ago he denied that Russia invaded Ukraine ...that a war exists etc. I don t know why so many romanians voted for him..really don t know why
Except it wasn't an excuse, it was a valid reason. Voters were influenced illegally, just because it wasn't at gun point doesn't mean the vote expressed was a reflection of a healthy democratic process
Useful.
Thanks.
almost early enough on this video for the info to be up to date
Please add more maps to these videos. Almost every conflict or situation you discuss can be aided by more maps
I am from Romania. Let me tell you what "democracy" looks like since 89.
When i was 13 years old i was going home it was late at night i attended a birthday party of a classmate, my home was 400 meters away. On my way home police stopped took me in and beat the sh out of a 13 year old child without a motive, and yeah that was like a daily business for them, they even killed people. Keep in mind this is happening in the 2000's.
And yes i wasn't a problem child i was the best in my class...
Regarding free speech, for 35 years we are cenzored everywhere, Europe doesn't know anything going on inside.
In Romania if you get robbed and call the police you'll most probably get robbed again or beaten up by them, because you disturbed them from doing their job (doing nothing, or protecting the mobsters).
So, if you don't live in Romania you'll have yo move here and understand that this is a dictatorship in which everyone who stand against is either cenzored, beaten up or made to look crazy.
I was attacked on the street by a man who was a reservist or retired officer or something. He probably took my phone too.
I went to the police and they sent me back to him, alone where he threatened me and followed me home.
He had money and his wife had a business in that area. The police knew who he was, but at first they pretended they didn't. Afterwards they tried to persuade me to retreat my complaint.
I gave up and moved from home.
Sound like two Russian bots whining pretending to be Romanian.
@@lunaticairina Holy shit, Romania sounds insane, I thought it was like the rest of Eastern Europe, fine for the most part.
Cops tried that sht with me aswell but they are cowards and I'm pretty big and kinda 8nsane .... they stay clear of me unless they have a REALLY good reason to bother me, so yeah, Romania is a sht hole of a police state run by cowards and crooks.
it's comments like this that make Romania look bad because of some idiots. it freaking happened over 20 years ago, a very different time from today's Romania. now it's one of the safest countries to live in sans some random villages or small towns.
Simon sitting next to a G-fuel cup like he wouldn't make the same face drinking it as the queens of england made when trying store bought tea
Simons the kinda guy who believes there were wmds in iraq
There is overwhelming evidence of Assad using chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. In Iraq, there was never actual evidence of chemical weapons being used.
Lol
Great video as always, but two small corrections (I'm Romanian):
1. Lasconi is definitely not a progressive. She's a classic liberal. Liberalism outside of the Anglo-sphere is still a centre right ideology. This is important, because currently her party, USR, together with PNL (the liberal party) represent about 30% of our parliament and they're literally defined as a centre right coalition. They are currently in a position where they have to align themselves with PSD (the social democrats) which are on the left and highly corrupt; but at least they are pro-european (in its current format, because they've toyed with anti-NATO and anti-EU sentiments in the past).
2. Romania does not have growing poverty raters. Romania has grown a lot in the last 15 years. Our average wages now surpass Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and all of the non-EU countries. This is not to say we have it good; there is still a lot to work to be done, but our economical growth and output has been nothing else but spectacular in the last decade. I can only hope we'll catch up with Poland, but I doubt it, given the current circumstances. Approximately 40% of our electorate spends 5,6 hours a day on tik tok and is swallowing kremlin ideology and pro-communism nostalgia at alarming rates. Here's to hope tho! Nicusor Dan 2025!
Wait a minute. What you are suggesting is that someone pushed a message that this dude was tell his fellow Romanians and that’s somehow illegal? How do the other candidates campaign? They cancelled an election of tic toc videos 🤣. Democracy at its best 😂
Hi,
Thanks for the video.
Can you make also video on what happening in SE Asia
I have never been this early to a video before.
same for me haha, 2 min
21 secs for me
@@marct8160sounds like he has one and that's why he has never been early
Same
Some things got wrong: Iohannis party is not PSD 😂😂😂
Or is it?
When you hear a government or a government's media talk about protecting "our democracy" they don't mean, 'the candidates our populace chooses'.
Russian "disinformation campaign" -> 😡
EU "information campaign" -> 😍
Its more USA, since EU folows Washington orders.
One minute in and there's already a mistake. Ciolacu is social democrat (PSD), Iohannis is liberal conservative (PNL). Two different parties.
Dear Warfronts, interesting that the situation in Romania is a topic of discussion on your channel!
The situation is bad for our democracy for many reasons:
- it's not the first time the Constitutional Court gets involved in the elections and changes or manipulates the outcome
- political class is missing qualified and honest people - USR(Lasconi) and PSD(Ciolacu) were heavily smearing each other and now are making an alliance.
- although there are big question marks around the "independent" candidate Georgescu, but his so called Pro-Russian or Pro-Putin stance is more of a mass-media stamp. His EU and NATO stance is more about negotiating the best possible outcome for Romania and not blindly following EU/NATO policies.
- the involvement of the EU Commission as they realized the "NON-EU" candidate would get 60% in the second round, is a far more obvious involvement in national elections then the Russian involvement which is actually not proven (even by the Constitutional Court)
- if there was a Russian involvement in the elections, what did the many Romanian secret services do during the campaign? why not raise a flag before the 2nd round actually started overseas?
- actually Georgescu's doom might come from the fact that he said he is "Ultra-PRO-Trump" whish does not sit well with Frau Ursula.
Georgescu's "doom" comes from the idiotic things he says like praising putin, saying that he'll nationalize foreign companies, praising fascists like Codreanu and Antonescu, saying that the role of women is to have babies and sit behind the "man" and other utterly insane things.
Just because Russia can doesn't mean they should. Standing on one leg, you'd think you would be more concerned with shoring up your home front, which is crumbling both economically and militarily, than playing games abroad-hubris by definition.
Iohannis the Dictator doesnt care about that
When have Russian leaders ever made choices good for the people?
@@johnbox271 There's a dude on TH-cam that goes around Russia handing out food and firewood.
You're absolutely right - Putin was and is and will always be a communist.
The fact is Russia always thought, or at least pretended, it could do everything all at once...
Syria's fall might be a splash of cold water on that.
@jr.StackQ Iohannis is to lazy to be a dicator bruh. Man can't even be bothered to do anything as president and you think he wants to be a dictator? If he was a dictator he would have pulled a Spain and just liberalized the country like the king did there so he can go take a vacation or something like that.
Would be nice if this came out as a podcast
One small correction: Johannes did not have "democracy backsliding and authoritarian tendencies". He is at the end of a 10 years mandate and after he lost the NATO nomination, he just didn't care any more. Holiday mode. That's what people are accusing him of, sleeping.
In his mandates Romania grew and had a very good period. History will remember his presidency and him as a good president.
Even before that he was on holiday mode once COVID restrictions were down he flew only with private jets paid by taxpayers money. Each European leader that went to the English Queen's funeral flew with a commercial plane, some even bought their own tickets, Iohannis got a private jet that waited for him for 2 days and more .
And he is brazenly lying that the costs are secret and he can't declassify them. Which he can as the leader of the said institution that classified those records of its own volition, not pushed by a law.
He will be remembered as the president that flea only by private jet that wanted to get a villa that he renovated with 7 million euro from the government budget.
It doesn't matter that he flew only by private jet for 3 years and maybe you should watch the video by recorder titled "Deceniul Iohannis" where you'll see if Romania grew with him at the lead or Romania grew in spite of him, the man that was elected cause he sat nicely while losing arguments with the guy people hated
Johanis is not great but he does his job. Best president Romania had so far. Maybe because the others were not great.
@@akmon3490 What is funny is the atention on the presindent. When PSD with PNL tank the economy and next year will raise taxes. Arguing about what a person did when the bigger picture is being ignored. This is what PSD is best at, giving more money creating economic problmes, then leaving the gouverment, others come to fix that then people miss PSD because of the giving spree.
@andreipop1 let it be clear that I'm not siding with PSD but the narative that was created in the last years is funny you look at the others like they fix the economy, I remember their brilliant move to cut salary raises that was lost in court and the government then owed the money they refused to pay.
And the fun part that is the restarting of the Romanian infrastructure projects only after PSD is in power.
I understand not wanting to spend much but there are certain things that we need to boost the economy , cause we can be in Schengen and it's a wasted cause if you have to spend a day crossing the Carpathians to Sibiu.
Also the other side made it really easy to spend government money during COVID.
So what I wanted to hint at was that both sides are spending like a mf and it's strange how PSD is the one gets things done so we look more like an EU country, like getting on the new pension system.
If you want to do away with special pensions you'd need to put pressure on the government from the inside and get the others EU members to have a scare like with the Georgescu stuff to pressure our government else the motion will never have enough momentum to pass.
Don't you find it annoying that the political spectrum is "vote with PSD look what we do" and " you don't like what PSD did vote with us cause we want to save Romania or we believe in liberalism" all I know about USR is that it thinks the average Romanian is well enough that it can be motivated through taxes to go green, if the average Romanian afforded a newer car he would buy it.
You forgot to mention 2 important things.
1 - that the constitution did a recount of the first round of votes and ended up validating them. Meaning: each person that voted in the first round, was a legit Romanian citizen vote.
2 - Elena lasconi backed Calin Georgescu in going against the constitutions decision after canceling all votes. She made herself very clear and can be found on TH-cam.
you forgot to mention that the recount and the annulment have nothing to do with eachother. very different situations. nobody cares if some brainwashed idiots who saw CG praying alongside a priest on tik-tok voted for him if CG had an illegal campaign. the law and constitution must be upheld. CG is a traitor who will soon go to jail.
as for Lasconi, that was her only chance to become president, she was angry that she missed her only opportunity. after what she said... it's over for her.
Throwing out an election because of tik tok.. aka democracy
Great coverage especially of the Romania election scandal but I wish you broke the video up into 3 separate videos instead of 1 video with 3 unrelated segments.
UK announces £50m in humanitarian aid for Syrians after fall of Assad so soft power out reach starts
I don't understand this need for political parties forming coalitions to get over 50% of government. The way a parliamentary system is supposed to work is each individual member has one vote for any motion. Why do these individuals have to bind themselves to others? Why do parties of likeminded people have to do the same? Political parties should be completely arbitrary anyway. They are private entities.
I already despise the two party system here in the United States. I think it's also a load of BS.
Well, typically you need 50% majority to have anything sanctioned. Let's say you have 3 parties with different views. Each 33%, if any party takes lead without support of any other party, it can mean nothing gets done for next 4 years or so (mostly to spite the leading party making it seem as failed, of course). If they form coalition, they can at least agree on some points and in the end can be seen as "doing it together". In my country there was a bizzare situation when the coalition was created by 2 parties from opposite spectrum of politics... That one was quite weird as they had almost nothing in common.
Iohannis will not "serve extra time", Iohannis will warm a chair extra time with even less authority that he had before, and he had almost no authority.
Presidential elections in Romania are important only when they coincide with the Parliament elections, which happens every 20 years and happened this year.
May all sentient beings be liberated from suffering and from the causes of suffering.🕉☮️☮️☮️
When you said about Ciuca "retired" general you we're so close to use the right word😢
Retirded, right? Retirded.
Naaah, the guy is oh... right. Just don't let him close to Cristian Sima.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hey, Simon, I love your journalism, you are one of my main source of information, along with few other youtubers and The Ground News. Sadly you are fulfulling role our public media (ČT) should do :( You also seem like fun-loving and chill guy and you stated that you are based in Prague. I was thinking if you wanted to grab a beer some time and have some chat about politics 😄 Sincerely, your (hopefully a critical thinking) fan!
Do you know what i find interesting? How 99% of Georgescu voters voted for parliament PSD...😂 I thought you did not want PSD anymore... what's the catch?
According to the studies, they did. The 54 yo generation voted for PSD.
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Nationalism, to me, doesn't mean "I love my country." Nationalism to me means "I love a certain part of my country, and everything else should be eradicated." Just my personal opinion.
Good that it's just your opinion. Because it couldn't be more wrong.
You can have that opinion, but when that's not what so called nationalists think, then it's as useful as the opinion that the earth is flat.
In approaching political opponents you should try to figure out what they actually believe, instead of just deciding (in your opinion) that they are utterly evil, because that is how evil is born in the first place.
it's why CG likes fascists and calls them "national heroes".
Commentators need to realize that people who vote for fringe candidates either do not fill out surveys or lie to avoid conflict or personal backlash. If you talk to people anonymously you tend to get different/varying answers. I get why internationals observers get shocked but it probably wasn't as surprising to a lot of people in Romania itself.
Actually we know him it was also proposed to be prime minister a few years ago, so don't believe the voices, ask normal citizen în România
no we don't know him. his proposal was a joke back then that nobody took seriously. barely a blip in the news.
Now ,we Romanian Citizens want and need help from MR TRUMP, because we believe in him ,and we need him More then Ever
Aww hell nah, not people justifying overturning elections because of TikTok ads in the comments, we're so cooked bro 💀💀💀
the elections were overturned because of illegal campaign financing (CG in this case) and prove interference from other countries like russia.
As a Romanian, thank you! 🙏 😊
Western democracy moment…
When democracy falls from balcony. This happens when Russia is involved.
What? Where rules of elections are subverted so they correct that? Seems like a good thing.
At least you won't be sent to a gulag for voicing that opinion.
Shouldn't have broken election laws if he didn't want to get the election annulled🤷♂
You won't see a Russian democracy moment cause they don't have it.😂
Why would Russia meddle in Romanian elections? Have you seen where Romania is located, geographically?
"Why would Russia meddle in Romanian elections? Have you seen where Romania is located, geographically?"
between russia and western europe. so a prize for both to fight over and influence elections
3:00 i'm romanian and didn't hear anything about Călin Georgescu being a presidential candidate. No news media, no commercials, no nothing. To see such a candidate going from obscurity to no 1... Well, stuff like this tends to happened în fairytales.
most people here in Romania want Georgescu to be president.
no they don't. most have caught on to his lies and BS.
People voted against the current regime, not for Georgescu. His advantage was that was independent, and his tiktok clips showed only the good part. His campaign was taylored for romanian psyche: emotional, religious and patriot.
Romanians voted with heart, not with mind.
Amen to that...I am romanian and a lot of people who voted for this guy never bothered to google him and see who he actually is and what he says
@@nickysturzu1290 So its like similar to what happens with the AfD here in Germany. Capturing the emotions, but hiding the true intentions.
Corruption in Romania is no secret and it's never gonna change
So? It’s an election. You don’t get a do over.
I feel Georgescu and Trump are in the same boat. Both were political outsiders who tapped into nationalism and won off that. Russia saw them as useful pawns and helped fueled their campaigns. However, I can believe neither had direct ties to Russia (although Trump was willing to seek Russia's help) but both don't seem to care about the mere optics of having support from a country with antagonistic relations with their country.
It is telling how conflicts like Kenya, but also Syria, the Georgian, chechen, Congo or Darfur conflicts receive almost no media coverage, but the Gaza conflict not only receives all attention but also a very tinted coverage. Luckily Simon at least points towards those inconsitencies.
yep.
And even the the comments we don't have many people calling for Abiy to be investigated by the ICC. Because he's very much done everything the Israeli president has been accused of, and against more people for a longer time.
We love democracy! But you can’t vote for the guy you want.
Romanians were manipulaterd. They didn't know anything about him besides "he's independent, conservative and a patriot". He got al his fame from TikTok bots.
That's illegal because it attacks right at the weakness of democracy: making people voting for something they don't really know through lies and manipulation. That's how Hitler won too.
or you know... we caught a traitor. if you want to vote for a traitor then you can vote him in jail.
Romanian democracy its finest
When democracy falls from balcony. This happens when Russia is involved.
@bestopinion9257 i see it more as a clash betwen NATO and Russia, as NATO strongly influanced the elections to favor Lasconi so much so as they went out of their way to put subliminal-like messages on TV (ex "Your vote matters, democracy depends on it"). On the other half Georgescu feels like a tyrant funded by the Russian state as he promissed to get the country out of NATO and be more "independent", there was also some American interventions who were somewhat pro-Georgescu, Trump's second hand Kennedy wanted to visit Romania in a convention to talk with Georgescu because the Trump administration is also anti-NATO. This whole thing is something out of a Cold War manual.
@_vla Romania is in Nato and EU. These are the interests of Romania. Lasconi was an accident. Ciolacu should have been on second place if not first but he lost to Lasconi at 2000 votes difference.
@_vla Yeah, you can let Georgescu to prove his capability 5 years and then people vote something else.
But with Russia doesn't work that way. Russia imposes dictators wherever can. Georgescu would become a second Orban in the region. Putin, Hitler, Orban all were democratic elected but became dictators. We should not let this to happen.
@@bestopinion9257 Honestly its better to have a Joe Biden lookalike to rule Romania for the next 5 years than to have a Cauşescu 2.0
Romanians are not opposed to the EU or NATO; rather, they are concerned about the imposition of certain Western agendas in Romania, such as cancel culture, changes in the school curriculum, and concepts like "parent 1 and 2." Issues such as wokeness and LGBTQ+ rights are perceived by some as external influences that may not align with traditional Romanian values.
None of those things are mandatory or being externally imposed. They're certainly not imposed on institutionally homophobic EU member Hungary.
@@Talisguy Hungary is currently facing difficulties in obtaining EU grants, with high inflation and the cancellation of some EU programs due to Orban's policies. During a recent visit to Hungary, I saw an advertisement at the airport that said "Family-Friendly Country." It was the first time I had seen such messaging in Europe. Perhaps a similar concept is being applied in Poland, and this is what we want in Romania, too ( to live as we want in a country with 98% orthodox, I would say we don't want to change that and also we don't want any influence to change that, and to have penalties from EU because we want to keep our values and traditions that's called BLACKMAIL.
@@Talisguy Indeed but Hungary faces challenges in securing grants from the EU, inflation remains high, and some EU programs have been canceled due to Orban's policies. Recently, I visited Hungary and noticed an advertisement at the airport that read, "Family-Friendly Country." This was the first time I had seen such a message in Europe. Perhaps a similar approach is being adopted in Poland as well and same we want in Romania. But we don't want to be blackmailed by EU, to accept certain agendas
That is just bullshit. Hungary is a big scammer about its values. I do not want Romania to become like Hungary.
It is unbelievable for me, that people are more afraid of gay people than Russian aggression.
@@Scorilox That has little to do with social attitudes - Poland, which ranks as a worse place to live for LGBT people than Hungary, has not had the same issues - and much more to do with Orban's frequent obstructionism and the country's democratic backsliding.
It's amusing that Russia is always so worried about NATO and the West, when it's really China it should be worried about.
Nothing like denying democracy to protect democracy
People should be able to choose their government but if a foreign power is influencing the election to get their preferred candidate in power, then is it really the people that are choosing the government or is it Russia that is choosing the government? I think that a rerun of the election is a fair outcome, let the people choose, not Russia.
@alexanderthegreat2678 its the Romanian way. Corruption is never ending in that country
@@skyking6989 ????
Where have I heard the before?
@TheCrimsonS4ge and what if it was the peoples choice and the government denied it on political reasons like in greece? Democracy is a facade
See here's the thing. How is defending your country from a foreign invader extremism? Why do you label anyone flocking to join Hezbollah after an attack on the civilian population as more radical than joining up to fight to do the invading? It's insane. Even if the organization they join holds radical beliefs, I'd argue that the one continuously committing more violence on a wider scale is moreso.
I have to say that I'm not a huge fan of a government overturning election results because too many TikToks propped up another candidate.
I find it really strange because how do you judge how a voter would have voted if they did not watch the Tik-Tok video. Another strangely weird thing is that candidates are allowed to campaign on TV and social media so technically no law was broken.
@@michaelotieno6524 Candidates are not allowed to campaign during election day and the day previous. Also the issue was not that he campaigned on Social media but that he did not have his materials marked as campaign clips and the way it was pushed on Tik-Tok. There is a 21 page report detailing the issue. but it's in romanian.
"The rebels have no access to drones.." haha okay...
Călin Pepsi has nanorobots Georgescu.
He said nanochips ,nanochips are small computing units whereas nanorobots are very small machines which also should possess a nanochip.
That being said Pepsi has neither nanochips nor nanorobots as far as we can tell.
@cristristam9054 oh damn, that is much better.
@@hamstercanibal Yes ,truth is much better but judging by the sarcastic reply ,it is all the same to you!
Have a good day.
@@hamstercanibal It is the truth.
What kind of person lies about what someone else said ,and then when corrected ,comes back with a sarcastic remark?......
@@cristristam9054 it's the kind of person that slightly mistrepresents the truth, to bait keyboard warroiors like you into commenting, to manipulate the algorithm for a bigger traction for my comment. If I had wrote nanochips instead of nanorobots, you would have not engaged with my comment.
PS: get off youtube and go learn how to use punctuation correctly.
Oh my god Simon! My OCD kicked in so bad on this..I couldn't do anything but stare at the spot on your white shirt. Gah!!! I need a Dr. Pepper.
Some things to add about Romania's wild electoral season: When the parliament votings took place on December 1, there have been quite a lot of reports that claim votes that were supposed to go to other parties "mainly SENS (a progressive party)" have been claimed as votes for the party on the other face of the page "which was SOS in the case of SENS (SOS is a far right party)". For context, the vote paper is very thin and the stamp can be seen from the other side of the paper, wich *may* lead to incorrect readings of the votes. The cases haven't been debunked yet as the whole presidential voting cancellation took place, but it would explain why SOS, a party that wasn't that popular even with the far right crowd has got so many votes, and there might be another cases of vote tampering for Georgescu's party too, POT. And after the cancellation, a lot of telegram channels dedicated to Georgescu have started a harassment campaign against any person who doesn't like Georgescu and last week, one of Georgescu's friends was planning a full on *RAID* against some politicians and journalists, before getting booked by the police
Just a small correction, Marcel Ciolacu is not Iohannis's party! Iohannis was elected against the Social Democratic Party but also the "smart" people in my country decided that they also want the social democrats retain the most seats in the Parliament so they gave the Prime Minister which is Ciolacu and they held on to the power....and again the "smart" people decided that Iohannis was at fault for that somehow although he does not have Executive power... Just keep that in mind before being shocked that such "smart" people could elect an "independent" politician with zero backbone that collaborated with both the communist party before the 1989 Revolution and with almost all the parties that ruled/bankrupted the country since '89 and checked ALL the conspiracy theories you can think of, maybe except the flat earth but I'm not 100% sure about that either...
His wife is a wellness influencer, like a discount trad wife Gwyneth Paltrow. She claimed that:
- women get breast cancer because they criticize their husbands,
- women should only wear skirts because they absorb energy from the ground and trousers block that energy,
- you shouldn't worry about your child's nutrition (their intake of iron, calcium etc), kids can survive on stale bread and love
-and many more pearls of wisdom
You fail to notice one important aspect: the vote wasn't for Georgescu, it was against the system that failed for the last 35 years. As you mentioned, all the political parties made an alliance to save Romania from dictatorship and promised reform, but keep in mind that the same political parties were in charge for the last 35 years, and they failed.
Stop judging a book by its cover.
when the book cover says "fascists are heroes" and then the rest is empty white pages, you can judge it by the cover.
and what exactly did we "fail" in 35 years? you don't seem to understand how well Romania is doing right now and how much the country has grown since we entered the EU and NATO.
I hope they vote for again, and say screw the establishment
“Electoral integrity” = ensuring the status quo
well, CG did try to cheat with very illegal campaign financing.
Why wasn’t this in the news?
im a liberal and supporter of democracy but its strange how ever more we're seeing how democracy is only accepted when an acceptable candidate wins in which case we seem to approve of cancelling democracy until an acceptable candidate wins
It's not even that : we have anti lobby law. Basically all money you spend in campaign, you have to declare, even if it's money donated to you. And this guy had the audacity to say he spend 0 RON on the campaign.
@RomaniaOverpowered but he still won the election. Did you see Brits do more than just complain about Brexit? Did we close down parliament? No because its a democracy and whatever the result we stick by it. You guys just gotta get over it and wait for the next election.
@@TejashPatel-z2r did you see any British politician who praises Hitler be allowed to run for elections? Didn't think so. He was allready investigated for his extremist views. Another candidate with similar views was banned from even entering. It's also important to have the state do its own due diligence in not allowing foreign interference or extremist movements from taking root. And heck, we should know; we've been at a similar turning point in the 40s, and so that you get a better picture about it, go and read about Operation Autonomous
so it's ok to break the laws during an elections because you voted for that guy? so much BS from pro-CG voters. CG literally told you that he is a pro-russian, pro-facist and pro-misogyny and anti-science... and here you are defending him.
@@RomaniaOverpowered That is the job of the government institution to deal with before the election is due not after the results are in. If Ciolacu would have won, this would have never happened.
Thank you for being more accurate and more wide scoped than 90 percent of corporate media!
I would have gone for south korea impeaching their president.
That's going to be in the next one of these videos, I'm sure. They usually take a couple of days to write unless the news is an emergency or (like the US election) they know only one of two things will happen and they make videos for both possibilities.
And then you understand how Russia did so well in Georgia
Ya but are they actually far right or are they just normal and conservative
Based on how they report on the US, Germany, the UK and France, "far right" means normal, sane and pro freedom.
they're beyond far-right. just a bunch of insane pro-fascist extremists.