Decolonizing and Demilitarizing Russia
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I'm just conveying in a nutshell what the two reports reveal.
The EU and NATO are not as cohesive as they used to be.
Cracks are beginning to appear in their veneer due to the sanctions.
The US doesn't have allies, per se, as it only has interests.
If another country aligns with the US foreign policy interests then it's cool.
If not, then they get Suddamed or Khadafi'ed.
That same policy logic is applied to the EU as well.
US global hegemony is about US interests first and foremost.
Russia just aligned Nato interests. Into a United front against a common foe. Solidifying Nato per say. But it has massively put pressure on the bloc, no gas. NATO still has gas.
There is far more Nato spending than in history, currently. It serves what masters. Not the EU. Defenses treaties which go outside of the bloc. American, British, etc etc. It has non member heads the UK is top of it currently, but this changes around. It has budgets and trade away from Europe, American, and British arms, etc.
The EU bloc however strains over its bullshit. Not completely, but it's not as united. Plenty of individual nations in it thinking WTF at certain policies, movement, trade, laws. Plenty of citizens. But unless a bigger collapse becomes worse, it's not something that Europe won't manage. Besides it would faster become the EU again anyway all of 5 minutes later if it did collapse. It still trades, moves, and etc.
USA interests move around Europe through NATO. You have this big defense budget where are they buying this and that and this from. No sooner a heap of other goods and services.
Europe ain't powerless either, despite the bloc perhaps being problematic. It is as individual nations, you're trading invidually not with who somebody else says you cannot. The EU's biggest problem is often that, a dumb law, means they're all adopting it, same with trade. Germany doesn't want it, Poland doesn't get it. Etc. Nato operates outside of this to extents and reasons. But it's far more interlinked than you can imagine.
Dream on America has no allies, just the majority of the globe.
But we are both speculating on what occurs.
Russia cannot lose at Home. If it does. It loses far more. If it withdraws it loses. It won't at Home. So this will play out for much longer. In the meantime collapse is happening. It means what today? War is often far more likely. Except that isn't quite the same historic option outside of proxy. But supply lines are changing. Prices rising. Unrest occurring. Until who knows?
I find the meme laughable. The timing speculative, but as always who folds what, at what cost, and what occurs.
Per Tragedy and Hope, The Grand Chess Board, the US has no allies, only foreign policy interests.
Allies is a smokescreen.
I recommend reading both books.
Makes no difference to the fact it does. Despite of its hegemony or power.
Easier to shout it doesn't, despite of the absolute fact that it does, and more than almost anybody else on this Planet. Whether reluctant or vassal or compliant. It makes no difference to that status of being aligned and allied.
Tedious proposal shouting the USA is not the foremost global superpower because it has no friends.
Dream on. No need to read. I have heard most musings about it, and the complaints there in.
I have explained the truth in fewer concise sentences, even down to a single quote.
What you say makes no sense at all.
Seriously, read those two books.
That quote?
Lifted from The Grand Chess Board.
Seriously. Read them then get back to me.
In above your pay grade.
Winter is near.
We will see first hand what US "allies" will do to the sanction.
Most important is how the US responds.
Cracks in the foundation compromises the structure.
Those two books you readily dismiss are quite illuminating.
"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests." Henry Kissinger.