Huge news here. Romania's President Klaus Iohannis has resigned, a day before he faced an impeachment vote sparked by the shocking, autocratic cancellation of the country's presidential election last year, to deny anti-war, anti-establishment Călin Georgescu victory.

As I wrote at the time, it was clear Romanian officials who executed and endorsed that coup well-aware it was a blunt-force, short-term solution to a panoply of deeply complex socioeconomic and political problems locally, with huge potential for blowback. Even Romanians supportive of the EU and NATO were appalled by the move.

In response, hundreds of thousands of Romanians have ever since taken to the streets to voice their anger at their country’s Western-bought political elite. Having compelled their elected representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against Iohannis, he jumped before he was pushed. There’s similarly pent up anger across Central and Eastern Europe. Things could get very interesting, very soon.