In his address to the 61st Munich Security Conference, held on February 14, the American Vice President, JD Vance, criticised Romania for cancelling the result of its presidential election on the ‘flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbours’. Vance, in referring to ‘flimsy suspicions’, focused on the alleged interference of Russia in the electoral process, which caused him to proclaim that, ‘If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.’
The uncompromising language used by the American…