There are plenty of posts in the TLR thread suggesting exactly this. They claim that the EU put the pressure on Romania to do it. Think of how confused about life you would have to be to even imagine a group of EU officials having a conference call regarding a Twitter beef between Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate and deciding it rose to the level of major geopolitical pressure?
I hear this all the time, on here and in real life. The real issue is that one, a lot of these people are just uneducated, and two, they feel outside the structures of society, disenfranchised (though it also comes from within, like the former president)
And, I think people's social media interactions since 2010, have blurred out a lot of structural knowledge, and replaced it with a gamification of the world, where everything is a meme, or a reaction GIF, or whatever. Like educated people, and some less educated, don't have any idea what the State Department does, or what it's like. Same with the Justice Department. Same with the local DA's office. To them, it's the same as a celebrity feud, or a fan/stan war.
Good example: The Brittany Grenier exchange was debated online like a NBA trade or something. That's not what it was. We are talking about US cvilians detained in bad faith by a hostile foreign power abroad. We have a MANDATE to go get that person. It's not a game.
Like you said, the idea that the EU/or US "made a call" and engineered this is absurd. But, it doesn't matter, because these people often have ZERO idea how something like an international arrest is coordinated. I know. The Justice Department has to secure an indictment, then request detention, then request a PAW, Provisional Arrest Warrant, THEN request extradition. But, that's al boring and doesn't make a meme.
I saw it with friends of mine who had decent educations, and weren't dumb, like 7-8 years ago, with the Facebook News Feed. They began to understand everything through online culture. I explained to someone, who is vastly more educated than me, what the State Department did, and why it's important. They should have been explaining that shyt to me, I don't even have a degree. It may not matter in your immediate world, but it does matter.