Former President Rumen Radev’s brand new party, Progressive Bulgaria, won the country’s snap parliamentary elections in a landslide on Sunday.Zero Hedge reported the news in the following article, to which I felt compelled to respond not as a criticism of the news outlet, but as a gut reaction to the many contradictory and nonsensical aspects of the current political status quo that it articulates, perhaps inadvertently: seethis.

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Before addressing specific parts of the article, let me discuss the ostensible oxymoron in the title: what is a ‘pro-Russia NATO general’?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was purportedly created to keep the peace after World War II, which during the Cold War meant to deter potential Soviet aggression. One could therefore argue that with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the westernization of the Eastern Block (a process that some at the time considered the triumph of Western liberal democracy and that Francis Fukuyama famously dubbed ‘the end of history’) the organization lost itsraison d’etre. However, not only did NATO not disband – it expanded. To the East.

Bulgaria, which sits in the middle of the Balkans and 1,500 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean, joined the ‘North Atlantic’ organization in 2004 under Foreign Minister Solomon Passy (no, this is not a Bulgarian name, in case you’re wondering) without a national referendum on the subject. It is Bulgaria’s NATO membership that makes Radev, a fighter pilot who had risen to the rank of a Major General and Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force prior to becoming the country’s president in 2017, a NATO-trained officer and commander, or a ‘NATO general.’

Much is made of Radev’s Master of Strategic Studies with Honors degree, which he earned from Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in 2003, but not enough of his much earlier training there. Mr. Radev graduated from the United States Air Force Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB in the distant 1992. I wonder what compelled the U.S. Air Force’s premier ‘intellectual leadership and development center’ to train a Bulgarian military officer one short year after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and who paid for the training.

Rumen Radev’s early U.S. ties remind me of fellow Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva’s Fulbright Fellowship at MIT in 1991- 1992. For those of you who may not be familiar with Mrs. Georgieva, she is the managing director of the IMF. Call me a conspiracy theorist (please, do) but I am inherently suspicious of individuals from the Eastern Block who seamlessly ‘transitioned’ and were embraced by the Western ‘elite’, experiencing tremendous professional (political) success, whether internationally or domestically. It’s as if they were destined for great things. In advance. By the people who are really in charge and who have no national, regional or political allegiances, and are known by many names: globalists, international bankers, Jews, Sabbatean Frankists, Death Cult, Hidden Cult, Deep State, etc. But I digress.

Now that we know the story behind Mr. Radev’s NATO generalship, let’s turn to the ‘pro-Russia’ part of his political identity. Western media insist that Radev is a russophile.

The Washington Postcalls Radev’s election ‘a new foothold for Moscow’: seethis.

Source: Global Research