NATO'S ATTEMPTS TO ISOLATE RUSSIA FROM EUROPE IS SIMILAR TO WHAT OCCURRED DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR OF THE 1850'S...
SADLY, NOTHING UNITES EUROPEAN "POWERS" LIKE THEIR "HISTORIC" FEAR OF RUSSIA...
CLEARLY, THE EUROLAND ECONOMIES ARE USING NATO AND THE US AS A TOOL TO SECURE EURO BASED MARKETS ACROSS EUROPE...EXCLUDING RUSSIA...
BUT WHY? WHAT IS TO BE GAINED BY EXCLUDING RUSSIA FROM THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY... OR WORSE, BY RESTORING THE COLD WAR...WHICH NATO SEEMS HELL BENT TO DO AT EVERY TURN OF EVENTS...?
THE RUSSIA OF 2008 IS NOT THE RUSSIA OF 1850 FOUNDED ON "AUTOCRACY, SERFDOM AND ORTHODOXY..."
RUSSIA WAS A MILITARY SUPER POWER AFTER WWII...AND IS STILL AN ECONOMIC SUPER POWER IN ENERGY.
THERE IS A DANGEROUS TENDENCY FOR EUROPE TO REVERT TO IT'S OLD WAYS... TO THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE 19TH CENTURY WHICH TOOK TWO WORLD WARS TO RESOLVE...
I WOULD ADVISE PEOPLE TO READ THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN WAR...BEFORE WE HAVE TO RE-LIVE IT!... A.J.P. TAYLOR'S ESSAY ON THE TOPIC WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO START...
INCIDENTLY TAYOR RIGHTLY REJECTS THE NOTION THAT THE CRIMEAN WAR WAS ABOUT "RELIGION"...OR THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE... THE WAR WAS ALL ABOUT EUROPEAN AMBITIONS AND THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE. THE CRIMEAN WAR WAS TOTALLY A GEOPOLITICAL AND OPPORTUNISTIC MOVE AGAINST RUSSIA BY THE EUROPEAN POWERS... ONE MUST ALWAYS SEPERATE THE "POPULAR" CAUSUS BELLI FROM THE REALITIES OF POLITICS...
LIKE THE FIRST CRIMEAN WAR...THIS COMING WAR IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY...AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DISASTEROUS...
IS EXCLUDING RUSSIA NECESSARY TO THE SUCCESS OF THE EUROZONE ECONOMIES...?
I DONT SEE IT THAT WAY...JUST THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. THE EURO-RUSSIAN MARKET COULD EXTENT FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC... AND EVENTUALLY REPLACE THE DYING AMERICAN ECONOMY SO DEPENDANT ON CHEAP LABOR FROM CHINA.
IN TRUTH, INCLUDING RUSSIA IN THE EU WOULD BE A BETTER APPROACH FOR EUROLAND....IF THE CHINA TRADE TURNS TOXIC TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY....AND DESTROYS THE US ECONOMY AS I THINK IT WILL...AND IS DOING EVERYDAY NOW!
SEE CRIMEAN WAR LINKS EMBEDDED ABOVE...
WE COULD BE ON THE VERGE OF A SECOND CRIMEAN WAR..."TO EXCLUDE RUSSIA"... AND LIKE THE FIRST CRIMEAN WAR THE RESULTS WILL LIKELY BE UNCLEAR...AND THE REASONING MURKY.
IF EUROLAND WANTS A "RETURN OF HISTORY" THEY CAN HAVE IT... DOES PEACE AND PROSPERITY BORE THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL CLASS...?
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE 20 CENTURY WOULD HAVE CURED THEM OF THAT DESIRE...
BUT PERHAPS NOT.
