Eurasia: A Geo-political re-alignment

[Paul Rigby]

Europa muss seine Beziehungen zu den USA neu justieren

From a poster on the Moon of Alabama site:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/06/ukr.../#comments

It advocates exactly the same policy for Europe that people at MoA have been arguing for.

With a view to its own interests, peace and economic stability in Europe, as well as to geopolitical considerations, it is high time for Europe to redefine its relations with the United States.

Europe has always been bad at the pursuit of its own interests. But its clear complicity in and the subsequent handling of the crisis in the Ukraine can only be interpreted in one way: in view of the increasing challenges with which the European Union is confronted, the European heads of state and government have abandoned the goal of a united and strong EU with an independent foreign policy, submitting themselves to a strategy made in Washington instead.

Already, some commentators have rightly pointed out that America's strategic goals in relation to the Ukraine were clearly formulated in the year of 1998 by the former US national security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. …

A policy based on European self-interest naturally … requires, of course, that Europe lies in a preserved and even deepened unified and strong West. It also demands however with regard to the economic and security interests of Europe and important geopolitical considerations, the preservation and deepening of Europe's relations with Russia. And it asks, finally, that Europe's own interests with respect to friends, such as the USA, are represented much more clearly (as the US also does) and these friends are clearly shown, if necessary, their limits.

Die Zeit is one of Germany's most influential newspapers, so it is nice to see that these ideas are being circulated in the German mainstream.

An interesting and ambitious point that the author makes is that Europe should develop a state that is capable of acting in a unified, coherent manner, something that the EU obviously is unable to do. However, how Europe can develop such a state without excluding the UK and Poland is beyond me. Those will always be Trojan horses, determined to do everything in their power to make Europe act in the interests of the US instead of Europe. They will always be traitors to Europe.

Yandex translathion: http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/de-en...ettansicht