INDEPENDENCE WAR AND RUSSIAN BETRAYAL (PART – 1)
may 10 2007 - 12:12 (Public Centre for Monitoring and Strategic Analysis) A Savin

The two drunken men were walking along the bridge. A big wedding procession was passing by. “Let us give them a great kick in the face?” said one of the drunken men. “Well, and if they pay us the same coin?” replied another. “We are not to blame”, said the first furiously casting the puzzled look.Waging war on Turkey during the period between the years of 1877-1878, Russia disappointed the expectations of the Balkan countries putting hope and their fate in the hands of hers. Placing the countries under issue at the West’s service, Russia will never enjoy acknowledgement from them. Obtaining the accurate objective analysis of the events that took place one hundred and thirty years ago we observed Russia has never been paid the coin she paid.Rudolph Kellen, one of the fathers of the geopolitics observed a state can be characterized not only by its people passing through several distinct stages: genesis, growth, maturity, senility, agony and death, but also by their behavior. Some of them (especially the ones regarded as super powers) do not realize they may be paid the same coin (see above mentioned anecdote). The kind situation existed between Russia and the newly unified Romanian State by the end of the 19th century.One of the arguments put forward by the followers of “the betrayal appeared as the national specific character trait of the Romanians” is the adhesion of the Romanian royalty to Triple Alliance in 1883. This is...