[War] Romania-One hell of a morning

[Vampi Digitalwytch]

"One hell of a morning"

President Antanasia Danesti

Apparently it had taken a bit for things to start to register past
Antanasia's rather colourful last part of her speech to anything from
the core meat of it and with the new focus of the Romanian government
to be focussed towards itself, the daily schedule wasn't as constant
pace as it once was.  Minister Anton once the latest word from the
outside had come in gathered up the assorted and typical of him,
jogged over to Antanasia's apartment and picked the lock.

Figuring she was sleeping in, he headed down the hall to the bedroom.

One thing about Iordan, is even after a night of passion, and scotch,
he was waking slowly and then got up to secure his weapon again.

Being he didn't hear anything else so he got in to bed next to
Antanasia, his logical portion of his brain was still not registering
that this was NOT what a bodyguard would consider career advancing.

To call it a strangled squawk would have been a compliment as Anton
rounded the door to see the distinctive haircut and build of one of
the President's guards.  Past the bare shoulders, the gypsy
representative's mind went blank and he flew out of the apartment
almost babbling about papers on the table.

Iordan grabbed at first for his pistol from the nightstand, but he
looked at the retreating figure,  shit, that was a minister, this
would be bad if he got caught here, his career would be over. So he
had to talk to this guy and see what he could do to keep him from
talking to the Prime Minister.

The only thing faster than a greased pig was a gypsy who was in full
flee.  Anton was out of sight though did head into the nearest bar to
promptly drink into 'I know nothing'.

Antanasia stirred and rose from bed, grabbing a robe, muttering about what now?

"Uhh..." Iordan watched her move with some appreciation, he was after
all a man, she was after all a woman, they did get along well. "I
believe I heard something about papers on the table."

"Serious papers to have been brought here.", she said as she went over
to the table in question and flipped through them, "It seems now we're
at the attention that this region's not warranted since Hitler."

"We're going to Parliament as soon as possible."

Iordan nodded, "We also need to talk."

"It will have to wait, for now, Romania comes first.", she said as she
hastily dressed.

He nodded and dressed just as quickly, he had his duty after all.

It was a quick drive to Parliament where the other Ministers were
waiting, even Anton who was still sipping from a flask.

"I gather you've all been made aware of this too?", Antanasia said as
she took her usual seat.

The Minister of Finances spoke first, "China has seemed to have
forgotten other than diplomatic functions, they've had no dealings
with us.  There are no funds to seize and we owe them no debt for them
to yell about.  Japan has said they are going to seize our former
embassy there and sell it off for apparent billions they've claimed to
have loaned us since Ceaucescu's end, but there were none otherwise
that money would have been put to valued use with the needed reforms.
Rechecking the figures, we're out the equivalent of the two billion
dollars we contributed to ANDA and while it does make things a bit
tight, we did all agree that the loss would be worth the price of our
choice."

Antanasia nodded, "France as expected has stepped forward to try to be
the voice of reason and from what their statement says, they come the
closest to understanding why but like the rest, don't understand."

The Defence minister sat in his area, "There is one problem we did not
consider.  How are we going to provide for our forces, we need to
purchase arms and equipment."

"You should have spoken up before we agreed.", Antanasia said, "Since
our forces are home, the resources required aren't as demanding as it
is when they are deployed.  Most of our current equipment is in good
order, and privatized dealings are still available."

He paused, "Just want to go over all the angles."

"And I expect that from all of you.", Antanasia said with a soft smile.

"We did have a change of concept during the night, Madame President.",
the Minister of Energy said, "As much as I was speaking as a proponent
of the geothermal research we've done, taking into account worst case
scenario of no developments that we remain in our seclusion, it is not
feasible.  However, working more towards our hydropower
facilities...it is definitely doable.  If we increase our usage of the
hydropower as we wean ourselves away from combustibles, we are keeping
in line with our power demands while increasing our trends to less
polluting which will allow more agriculture."

There was a voice, the Minister of Foreign relations, "France wants to
discuss this with us, so would I assume the Americans, shall we
contact them to discuss tourism?"

"I felt I was pretty clear in that tourism is unchanged.", Antanasia
said, "But judging from these rather wide overreactions since for the
most part we along with the rest of the nations in this region have
been either ignored or treated as the scruffy orphan in the streets, I
doubt they bothered to truly listen.  Currently we have enough on our
plate with dealing with our home issues that I am not in the mood to
deal with others trying to talk us back into the fold that is still in
essence the same power structure and rationales that abounded when the
Reich fell.  The world has changed and the machine has not.  And as it
stands, in light of the private mudslinging directed at President Hong
as an 'emotional woman', I will not accept such that would clearly
follow if we came back into things as if we couldn't show them that we
are not some easily ignored backwater that is unable to manage on
their own and needs the handouts of those higher up.  I am open to any
of the other nations sending someone to speak as long as they come in
as tourists.  What happens after is dependant on them."

That got a nod and several ministers seemed to agree, standing in the
back of the room Iordan was just watching the exits.

"One thing to consider that we did not take into account, is the core
overreaction across the board so far.  In light of the current
situation with it's initial start, since we have clearly bucked the
trend and are not dancing to the tune played by the greater powers, we
must consider that they will try to make an example of those who are
tired of the way everything is played out like a broken music box.
While we did crunch the numbers repeatedly and barring the strongly
valid concern over fuel, we are self sufficient, we cannot put it
beyond the others to blacklist Romania on par with those nations run
by the most brutal dictator.", she said, then sighed, "I would not put
it past some to think on either removing me in some manner or
tampering with our elections until they have a crony who will dance to
their pipes."

That got nods all around the table, "The elections, we should make
sure they are fair, This would be a point we'd bring in some observers
to make sure, but what country would observe, we will have to do it
our selves."  This was from the Minister of Justice, "With your
permission, we could prosecute vote rigging as a form of treason."

"Ehh, who's going to want to run against the woman with the stones to
tell the world to fuck off.", Anton said with a shrug which prompted a
few snickers.

"We are still a democracy.  And to make vote rigging on par with
treason is a bit much in my opinion.  It smacks too much of
Ceaucescu's hand.  As much as the Swiss seem the most rational choice,
who knows what pressures will be pushed towards them when some of the
nations already speaking out are taking actions that by their rules
are blatantly illegal.  For now, I would think keeping an eye on the
inevitable spies that will be coming in to see what's going in within
our borders and dealing with each situation as it's own would be the
safest course for now."

More nodding from the ministers and the Minister of Justice spoke
again, "The Border guards and customs will be at alert until the
elections, business will not be as usual."

"I do not want a high alert, but more care taken with observing.",
Antanasia said, "Business will be as close to usual in these unusual
times."

With everything said for now, the meeting was adjourned.

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Actions:

1) Discussing internally the at this point overreactions.
2) Clarifying out exactly what's what as far as the international
financial dealings have been.  Having gone over real world and in game
mentions of such, no one's owed anything save technically Romania for
the Anda contribution that they're expecting's going to be kept.
3) Any nations wanting to talk will have to send someone in as a
tourist since we're not going to bother with anyone coming in with
full force of governmental regalia.
4) Setting forth an internal course of action as well going from
what's been tabulated off the factbook site.

-- 
--I know there are no lifeguards in the gene pool, but damn, there
ought to be at least a few sharks in the water.