A former Romanian Foreign Minister makes a surprising comparison between NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Cristian Diaconescu, former presidential adviser and head of Romanian diplomacy, said Tuesday night on Antena 3 that the fault that exists between the EU and the Trump administration “is very serious, because it is unprecedented”, and “everything that global logic meant, from the single European market to the transatlantic partnership, is called into question”.

Diaconescu said that, despite the tensions that exist between the allies amid the threats launched by American President Donald Trump against Greenland, “there are contacts, dialogue, so that the escalation stops and some kind of alternative is found.”

“As far as I understand, there are interesting signals from the point of view of prudence and limiting the consequences in relation to the military dimension in the North Atlantic Alliance, so they have been sent to the states of the North Atlantic Alliance not to escalate this military dimension, and it seems that there is an understanding including with the Americans that at least on this level things should be a bit more stable, leaving the political-diplomatic area in the center”, said the former minister of foreign affairs.

The Warsaw Pact, “the only politico-military security organization where members attacked each other”

Asked where we are heading, considering the statements made by the Chief of Staff of the Romanian Army regarding the need to have “a population prepared to support a war effort”, Cristian Diaconescu said that General Gheorghiță Vlad “is right regarding the unpredictability from the eastern proximity, from the Russian Federation”.

“I think that from this point of view there is a need for training, including psychological, at the level of society. On the other hand, another unpredictability is added. As it was well said at one point, the only political-military security organization in which the members attacked each other was the Warsaw Treaty. We hope that such unpredictability does not exist”, continued the former head of Romanian diplomacy.

On the other hand, he said that “options are being sought” to defuse the tensions that exist between the allies.

“In my opinion, and maybe it's an optimism not with many arguments, the dialogue is so intense, options are being sought, the interconnections, especially of an economic but also military nature, between the United States and Europe are so great and deep that the losses in the conditions in which no agreement is reached would be much greater than the gains, for both parties, in the conditions in which the Final Act from Helsinki of 1975 would be violated”, concluded Cristian Diaconescu.