The ‘Russians’ Within Us – Between the Myth of Foreign Infiltration and the Reality OF Internal Capture: Anatomy of an imperfect democracy – Romania - (Part II)

Romania remains an imported democracy: anchored in NATO and the EU, yet deprived of internal trust. The state demands loyalty; the opposition claims morality – but neither inspires confidence. The state lacks transparency, the opposition indulges in rhetoric. Between them, the honest citizen becomes “the 10th man ” – the one who refuses convenient consensus and defends the right to ask questions through a final appeal to moral integrity...