CLUJ SHOOTING CENTER: A LITTLE SLICE OF ‘MURICA IN ROMANIA

Cluj has a decent shooting range where you can embrace your inner ‘Murican and fire handguns under the excellent tutelage of one of its instructors.  It’s called Cluj Shooting Center (Poligon de Tir Cluj Napoca), located in the city’s western industrial zone, and it’s a fun place to go with your buddies and blow off steam, provided your taxi driver can find the place.  Ours admitted that he’d never … Continue reading CLUJ SHOOTING CENTER: A LITTLE SLICE OF ‘MURICA IN ROMANIA

Romanian Senators Report to Master

It’s long since been established that every major politician in Romania regularly gives a detailed report to the American Embassy about everything that’s going on in the country. Yesterday, the Romanian Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee gave their report (link in Romanian) to their overlord Hans Klemm, the American Ambassador. For the record, the Senators who delivered this report were Committee Chairman Petru Filip, Eugen Durbaca, … Continue reading Romanian Senators Report to Master

U.S. Continues to Provoke Russia

With all the recent build-up of hostilities, the United States keeps ramping up the stakes: Moscow in recent days has talked about its effort to modernize its strategic missile forces, including bringing five new regiments online this year. Those efforts have worried American officials in the U.S. and Europe, who have repeatedly criticized what they say is a military build up in Kaliningrad, Crimea and … Continue reading U.S. Continues to Provoke Russia

Romania Gets 30 More Military Drones

And America makes even more money from the Romanian taxpayer: The aircraft were delivered via the US Foreign Military Sales programme, which also includes the company’s Dragon View combined electro-optical/infrared stabilised camera, a ground control system, spares and ground support equipment. Romania also operates a variant of the Textron Unmanned Systems RQ-2 Pioneer UAV – the Shadow 600 – based with the 142nd Unmanned Aircraft … Continue reading Romania Gets 30 More Military Drones

…For a Fistful of Nothing

Well in case you hadn’t heard yet, Romania has now officially committed to hosting an American missile base in Deveselu, just southeast of Craiova. This is idiocy piled on top of idiocy, but the icing on the cake can be found here (Ro), in which Bogdan Aurescu (a senior official in the Foreign Ministry) clearly states what he thinks is the deal. My translation: “The … Continue reading …For a Fistful of Nothing