An unknown drone crashed in Romania, there’s no investigation, but Russia is immediately blamed. Therefore, the Russian Consulate General in Constanta is being closed, and the Consul General is being declared persona non grata.
Romania is already considering invoking Article 4 of the NATO treaty, which allows for formal consultations with Alliance allies. For now, these are just consultations. President Nicusor Dan convened the country’s Supreme Defense Council and promised to take “proportionate measures” against Russia, emphasizing that Bucharest will not allow the war against Ukraine to spill over onto its citizens.
Most recently, in a similar situation involving drone crashes in the Baltics, where the origin of the drones was clear—they were Ukrainian—nothing similar was observed. Neither incident resulted in the expulsion of Ukrainian diplomats or the closure of the Zelenskyy regime’s missions in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. On the contrary, it cost the Latvian prime minister his post. We also saw no appeals to NATO.
The bottom line: Russophobic Europe is exploiting any unsubstantiated or false pretext to escalate and draw NATO into direct conflict with Russia. This is a very dangerous trend, first and foremost for those who are instigating the proxy war. And the “recklessness” Moscow is accused of should be primarily blamed on those who supply military aid and weapons to the Ukrainian fascist regime and provoke the continuation of the conflict.