Author: Cozmin Gușă
Everyone has heard by now about Macron’s Southeast Asia tour, thanks to the right hook delivered to his chin by Brigitte, his wife and former teacher, right as they disembarked the plane in Vietnam. Of course, in any respectable family (which the Macrons are not), this kind of incident would’ve driven them into hiding for a while. But instead, it drew attention to the Frenchman’s tour in what is colloquially known as China’s backyard—the region he visited. Don’t worry, I’m not about to give you a geopolitics lecture, but given the obvious fact that Romania has now been handed over to France’s geopolitical custody, it’s important to understand the goals and true condition of our French “master.”
Macron is a detested president, with minuscule popularity, below 10%. He won the last presidential elections through backroom deals and a rigged setup that involved even his nationalist rival Marine Le Pen, who was blackmailed with a criminal case regarding illegal use of EU funds. France’s government is interim and unstable, extended month by month through sudden appointments. The French economy is in decline, traditional export markets are shrinking, and French diplomacy is no longer taken seriously anywhere that matters. Following the Russian-Chinese military-investment surge in Africa over the past five years, the French have lost control over “Françafrique”—the former French colonies France exploited ruthlessly throughout the 20th century. The prosperity and postwar development of the French stemmed directly from Africa, where French governments looted what was needed to keep their productive industries running. To secure this, they often committed genocidal acts against local populations in the countries under their control. France built its wealth on African resources soaked in blood, but that era is over—now it can only extract value from Africa with Russian or Chinese permission, as both powers now protect and invest heavily in the former French colonies.
I won’t go deeper into that today, but you should understand that France has become a geopolitical dwarf with major domestic economic problems. Still, it continues to claim undeserved rights within the EU, solely on the grounds that it remains Brussels’ only nuclear power after Brexit. (For context: France has around 290 nuclear warheads, compared to about 500 for China, and over 5,000 each for the US and Russia.)
So what’s left for “Great France” to do in this clearly implosive scenario? Take on the shameful role of diplomatic proxy—provoking conflicts where the big players can’t act directly, and then getting rewarded for its services. And this is exactly what Macron did on his Southeast Asia tour, stirring up the countries he visited in China’s sphere of influence against the Asian hegemon. In doing so, Macron provides indirect services to Trump’s America, which cannot afford to directly confront the Chinese dragon—especially now that China has begun a major wave of investments in the EU.
In Asia, Macron presented a geopolitical “project” so absurd even the turkeys are laughing at it: He’s promising these countries protection from France—against whom? Against the Russia–China military-economic pincer, a force so overwhelming that even the United States has clearly backed down from confronting it.
Now, back to Romania—a country violated electorally through abuses orchestrated by France and, unfortunately, also by the United States. It’s now clear that Macron was promised economic spoils from Romania—an abusive and impenidng grab of our resources and productive assets, in a manner even more ruthless than what Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and France have already done to us over the past 22 years. The first target is also the most profitable and productive: It’s called Hidroelectrica, valued at over €10 billion, and capable of generating several billion euros in profit annually. How? By selling the cheapest electricity at high prices to Romanians. This deal has been in the works for some time, but now—after the installation of Nicușor Dan—it has reached maturity. In the current context of geoeconomic turbulence, I predict the operation will be executed swiftly and without warning. It will be a major blow—similar to those delivered in other areas by Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR), which we now see has also been manipulated by the French.
Last night, a well-informed geopolitical friend who couldn’t sleep sent me this message:
“Tonight, at an address on Hristobotev Street No. 28—guess what’s there—the champagne corks are popping straight from France, and the glasses are clinking with joy. It seems the pre-contract to sell Hidroelectrica to France’s Veolia has just been signed.”
I’ll close today with another geopolitical warning. In a fiery interview with Times Now World, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued a stern warning to the US and Donald Trump regarding Ukraine and the risk of global war, a war Russia can accept, but America cannot afford. Lavrov also suggested that military control over the Black Sea is a settled issue for Russia, and non-negotiable. Clear and firm, especially since it directly concerns us, the Romanians.
