'Condi and
Putin' [The
Telegraph, U.K.]
Ziarul, Romania
NATO, Romania
and Mushroom
Clouds to Come
"The Russian Defense
Minister said that to 'defend the sovereignty of Russia and its allies,' the
Russian state could use nuclear weapons against NATO allies like Romania, the
Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria. Hello NATO, have you heard this? Hello
E.U., have you heard this? Do you understand that Romania is now a Russian
nuclear target? BAAAA!!"
By Igor Drag
Translated By Marcel Iliescu
January 22, 2008
Romania
- Ziarul - Original Article (Romanian)
While Defense Minister Melescanu talks nonsense about Romania not having enough
heart and blood to keep troops in Iraq, and while the same Melescanu
walks parade-style walk through the Ministry of Justice's domain, hindering the
release of National Anti-corruption Agency files calling into question the
fairness of the trial process, what's has the world come to?
It’s raining, some would say.
It’s raining declarations about how Romania could soon be one of Europe’s most
important "mushroom plantations" [a reference to the mushroom cloud
of a nuclear blast]. But who's going to look more deeply at these declarations,
decode them and counter them, with Melescanu busy
maintaining [Prime Minister] Tariceanu's stinkpot [in
other words, catering to his every whim] ...
While the Defense Minister's
ear-drum perceives nothing but the Prime Minister’s call, Russian Defense
Minister Yury Baluyevsky
has said that in order to "defend the sovereignty of Russia and its
allies," the Russian state could use nuclear weapons, including against
NATO allies like Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria. These
declarations of unprecedented toughness made by "Putin’s
mace,” as General Baluyevsky is called, are taken
very seriously in Western chancelleries.
Romania hasn’t yet commented
in any way on Moscow’s threat. It leaves one speechless. It’s almost impossible
to believe that someone who isn't even a thousand kilometers away from you can
issue such threats ... It's explicit in a way that Mother Russia has never been
before ... The threats have an address, names of the occupants and gives a
clear expression of the measures that are to be taken ... Outside the most
incandescent periods of the Cold War, I don’t believe any country has ever
formulated such a threat against any other!
Hello NATO, have you heard
this? Hello E.U., have you heard this? Do you understand that Romania is now a
Russian nuclear target? BAAAA!! Has anyone heard anything? For our imbecile
Defense Minister is busy … he's busy juridically
rubbing Prime Minister Tariceanu’s prostrate ... !
Isn’t it time now to leave aside the embarrassing trifles with which the
Ministry of Justice keeps itself busy, and restructure our relationship with
NATO and the Russian entity? Hellooooo CSAT (Supreme
Council for National Defense), gather up and do something! The Russians are
dropping bombs and you're busy with who’s going to lead the secret services,
who started the bird flu, and whether Muresan took
the blood sausage or the innards (Muresan is the
former Agriculture Minister who was caught on tape taking money from the
current Agriculture Minister for arranging bid-rigging.]
Do we have anyone left in
this country who can shake up the "watchmen” and wake them from the sweet
sleep of successive mandates, in which, "our people go, and then our
people come again?”
Now, more than never, one
needs to demonstrate that every soldier is motivated by a good stick against
their backs, rather than the stick of a Minister in a politically cushy job.
And if we can't do it, let’s pray that a geopolitical rain doesn't fall on our
heads ...
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[Posted Jan. 22, 10:30pm]
