The European Union (EU) hasn't killed rule-of-law democracy in Romania to save democracy there. The EU intervened because it hates democracy.
I'm disappointed a number of Romanians liked a pro-Russian candidate. But the EU killed democracy in Romania to--temporarily, I believe--stop that candidate:
Romania has fallen to the status of a 'hybrid regime,' the only one in the European Union, and we have EU politicians and corrupt bureaucrats to thank for it.
Because of course it did. The EU ruling class believes only it can overrule the warmongering instincts of the peasants to save Europe from its long history of wars against each other.
Seriously. They believe that the EU rather than the America-led NATO gave Europe its run of peace since World War II ended. The former Yugoslavia and the Russian wars against Ukraine, notwithstanding.
Can Romania's democracy recover? Or is it going to be bullets rather than ballots that determine who sits at the big desk? Heck, Romanians might welcome EU-provided order via 10,000 cheese regulations to escape the rule of local bullets.
Building rule-of-law democracy is hard enough without an outside force hammering away at it. One can expect Russia to do that. The West should not participate.
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