Romania as a Juche/North Korea-type state

Ukraine can't stop it if Romania does it quickly enough. And if you think the West will stop it, remember how long it took them to intervene in Yugoslavia.

this romania sounds crazier than Yugoslavia though, especially if its actually a proper North Korea type state with Nuke's.
 
Ukraine can't stop it if Romania does it quickly enough. And if you think the West will stop it, remember how long it took them to intervene in Yugoslavia.
Moldova is a UN recognized sovereign state. No one will tolerate such an annexation. See the 1991 Gulf War for indication of what is going to happen.
 
Wasn't Albania under Hoxha awfully similar to the "European North Korea" you're after? Isolated, batshit crazy - and thankfully small enough to be ignored.

It was, but Albania had a fraction of the population, a fraction of the economy (including GDP per capita), and no friends, since they hated everyone from Tito's Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union to China. Resource-wise they didn't quite have what Romania did either.

If Romania went full juche state, Moldova would have been annexed in 1995.

I'm not really sure if they would or not. It would be a huge gamble, because it could end with regime change if they fail. If they win, then they've made good on their ultranationalism. Of course, a lot of Moldovans will definitely resist, and there would be a huge flow of refugees to Ukraine and beyond. Ukraine obviously doesn't want a border with an unpredictable, violent state like Romania and the refugee crisis that will result. Would Ukraine ask for Russian or NATO assistance in defending Moldova?

There's also the thing with Transnistria--would Romania annex that? Could they cut a deal with Ukraine to avoid a war if they give Transnistria to Ukraine?
 
Might be plausible, they've been communist before, so a similar type of government could also.

It would basically be an evolution from communism to "Juche"/*Ceausism, which wouldn't be quite like OTL's Ceausism, and probably include "contributions" from pro-regime intellectuals, maybe under Nicu Ceausescu's name (following his mother "Dr." Elena Ceausescu's example) that shape it to being even more like Juche. Although I don't imagine Juche Romania dropping references toward Marxism as North Korea did.

What it would look like in the 2010s would probably be an honest to god example of National Bolshevism.
 
It would basically be an evolution from communism to "Juche"/*Ceausism, which wouldn't be quite like OTL's Ceausism, and probably include "contributions" from pro-regime intellectuals, maybe under Nicu Ceausescu's name (following his mother "Dr." Elena Ceausescu's example) that shape it to being even more like Juche. Although I don't imagine Juche Romania dropping references toward Marxism as North Korea did.

What it would look like in the 2010s would probably be an honest to god example of National Bolshevism.
Perhaps after the toppling of Ceaușescu's regime in 1989, around 1990 or '91, a civil war breaks out in Bucharest, and Iliescu is killed, causing a pro-Communist loyalist (Maybe Iulian Vlad?) to take over. Amid condemnations from across the world, they become a hermit state, relying only the USSR, until it falls in 1992.
 
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