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Shock in Romania as hard-right Nato critic Calin Georgescu takes lead in presidential election
(www.theguardian.com)
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Are you misinterpreting me on purpose?
What exactly do you think "geopolitics" mean? Discussing paper thickness of maps?
So a country's internal politics don't matter unless they fall to Russia - that's what you said, right?
But wouldn't you agree that the country's internal politics are what decides if it falls to Russia or not? If education is not a subject they invest in, if its population isn't happy with the status quo, if they exhibit corruption, if their healthcare system is so bad that the middle class emigrates and leaves behind only the oligarchs and the poor, if their justice system doesn't work and they don't feel safe... All these internal politics have a huge impact on if a country can be influenced by Russia or any other nefarious agent.
I don't get what you're saying. You keep saying "yeah but we don't care about X", while X seems to be the direct cause of some of your problems that you DO care about. Are you trying to say Romania should take care of its shit internally so we don't have to deal with it, and not let it grow to the point where it's a problem for the rest of the EU?
You're conflating a bunch of things here.
What exactly am I supposed to do about internal Romanian politics? Impose a medical Securitate to protect everyone's health? Invade directly? That's a tad arrogant, isn't it?
Internal politics only become relevant for people on the outside, if they affect the international politics. And even then, what is the outside supposed to do? They can only react. And realistically, you can't expect people to know enough of the internal politics of every country within 10.000km to be able to have an opinion on it.