According to the "pro-peace" propaganda, Romania will become a "legitimate target" for Putin, after it receives on its territory Ukrainian troops who will fight against Russia.
NEWS: Zelensky has promulgated a law that gives him the right to send Ukrainian troops to the territory of other states, to "ensure national security and defense, repel and deter the armed aggression against Ukraine, protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity."
This is a real napalm bomb! I mean, not only is Romania about to send troops to Ukraine to defend it, before a peace agreement is signed – so, in the middle of the war! But, Romania risks getting Ukrainian troops, who will carry out war missions against the Russians on the territory of our country!
Which would turn the whole of Romania into a "legitimate target" for Putin. Is it clear now why the candidate who wanted PEACE was banned?
NARRATIVES: 1. Ukraine will send troops to Romania to fight against Russia. 2. Romania will be directly involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war. 3. Călin Georgescu's candidacy was banned because he opposed this plan to escalate the war.
PURPOSE: To promote an anti-Ukrainian and by extension pro-Russian discourse, to provoke and amplify social tensions, to validate one's own conspiracy theories.
The laws of a state do not apply beyond its borders
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: The law promulgated this month by Volodymyr Zelensky was endorsed by the Kyiv parliament in February and regulates the right of the Ukrainian president to send units of the Ukrainian armed forces to other states during martial law, to ensure national security. The decision cannot be made, however, without it being approved by the Ukrainian parliament. But even under these conditions, the law does not refer to the deployment of troops that can actually fight on the territory of other states, but regulates the presence of Ukrainian military personnel and their equipment, means or combat techniques abroad, for training, practice or joint exercises with the armies of other countries.
Moreover, Ukrainian military personnel have been present before in Europe and the United States for training, even in the absence of this law. But perhaps most importantly, despite the alarmist claims of the Romanian "pacifist" propaganda, no matter what laws the authorities in Kyiv vote on, they do not produce effects on the territory of other states. Therefore, the possibility of Ukrainian troops launching attacks against the Russian Federation from the territory of any state, not just Romania, is practically impossible, without the consent of the other party. In this regard, Ukrainian army personnel have been present in Romania only for training in piloting F-16 fighter jets, at the 86th Air Base in Feteşti, since September 2024. This is due to the commitments made by our country to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion, without however getting directly involved in the conflict.
Regarding Romania's involvement in the war, we are dealing with the reshaping of an older narrative, which claimed, as early as the summer of 2023, that our country was being pushed into the conflict in Ukraine by foreign troops on our national territory, which was, in turn, a new version of the fake news promoted even before the start of Moscow's aggression, in 2021, which stated that Romania would be drawn into a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
The material under analysis also brings back into discussion the narrative about sending regular Romanian army troops to Ukraine, a hypothesis circulated since December 2022 and denied by the Romanian Ministry of National Defense. According to the same ministry, there is indeed a technical - military agreement between Romania and Ukraine , but which covers only technical-military cooperation, does not refer to mutual security guarantees and cannot produce operational effects. The false narrative is currently defended by the tendentious interpretation of the statement made by the interim president Ilie Bolojan on March 2, who said that the EU financial and military support for Ukraine would continue "until the end of the fighting, therefore until a ceasefire is achieved."
The support in question refers, as we have shown above, to the training of Ukrainian soldiers and the provision of ammunition and missiles through various programs and does not entail sending Romanian troops to war. In fact, at this moment, there is no signed agreement for the sending of troops to Ukraine between Bucharest and Kyiv, and interim president Ilie Bolojan said on March 27, that Romania would not send any military personnel to Ukraine, but that, indeed, our country could be a transport hub for the designated forces, in the event that a peace plan agreed upon by both sides would provide for the presence of peacekeeping troops in the neighboring country.
Moreover, discussions within the EU regarding the situation in Ukraine have recently focused on identifying alternative solutions to sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, due to political and logistical constraints, but also the prospect that Russia and the United States would not agree to these plans.
Similarly, despite subjective and extremely biased interpretations, the narrative concerning the ban on the participation of the pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu in the presidential elections has absolutely nothing to do with his desire for “peace in Ukraine”, but with the accusations of manipulating the vote of Romanian voters and instigating actions against the constitutional order, in the criminal cases in which he is currently being investigated. In fact, Georgescu has expressed his vision of peace as clearly as possible, one in which Ukraine is territorially dismembered not only by Russia, but even by its neighbors Poland, Hungary and, obviously, Romania. As a result, we cannot imagine this scenario unfolding without a Romanian military presence in the territories claimed by Romanian sovereigntists, a fact that contradicts, once again, their messages about peace and the non-involvement of the Romanian military in armed conflicts.
Older narratives, reshaped and brought back into focus
CONTEXT: The narrative according to which Romania will be drawn into a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, and that Romanians will participate in the fighting on the front lines, dates back to before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is part of a whole arsenal of fake news and disinformation concocted in Moscow, intended to justify the claims that the West is responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. At regular intervals, Russian propaganda launches various false narratives into the public space, which fuel the main theses that accompany its aggressive policy in Eastern Europe. Messages of this type have intensified with the return of Donald Trump to the White House and his statements about a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
Thus, the European Union's initiative to develop a common defense plan against a potential Russian aggression in the near future and to also keep providing support to Ukraine is presented by the Kremlin propaganda as a declaration of war against Russia. Therefore, the EU has become the main target of Russian propaganda, replacing NATO and the USA, and the sovereignist discourse of Moscow origin, now disguised in an alignment with the new American doctrine, claims that the responsibility for triggering the invasion belongs almost exclusively to the European community, which will finance its war plans with money confiscated from the European citizens.
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