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#Bucharest: Romania on the front line. Antonia Colibasanu, @GPFutures

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Bucharest: Romania on the front line. Antonia Colibasanu, @GPFutures

1940 Bucharest

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0:00.0

This is an eye on the world with John Bachelor.

0:05.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor.

0:10.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Romania is an ally of the United States.

0:17.0

It is a member of NATO, is a member of the EU.

0:19.0

It's on the front lines in the war in Ukraine.

0:22.0

It borders Ukraine. It borders Moldova and the crosshairs we're told.

0:26.0

It is on the Black Sea, it has an exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea, and on the

0:31.6

13th of September that is understood the Russians

0:35.7

attacked a Turkish freighter carrying Ukrainian grain in the exclusive economic

0:42.3

zone of Romania on its way to Egypt, to North Africa,

0:46.0

with food and the attack was seen in some fashion as being a warning sign of what Russia can do in the event.

0:55.0

The US gives permission to London, gives permission to Kief

0:58.8

to use storm shadow missiles to strike inside Russia against what we presume or military bases.

1:05.0

All of that is a way of describing the fog of war and I welcome Antonio Kalabashanu of the Geopolitical Futures.

1:13.8

She's an analyst.

1:14.6

She also is a professor at Bucharest.

1:16.8

She's in Romania.

1:18.4

To help me first with the Storm Shadow story,

1:22.0

how it's seen from Bucharest point of view, because Romania and

1:26.9

Antonia are on the front lines.

1:29.2

It's well and good to have a debate in Washington, but the front lines are what is vulnerable. Antonia, a very a as a warning sign by Russia, a random act of mayhem, a strike against Ukraine and not Romania.

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