....Why has Europe become these games' victim? From Russia's point of view, because it in the "post cold war era",
Europe refused to embrace the role and status of "neutrality" in relation to
Russia's grand plan to get its superpower status back. To Moscow, Europe's
weakening means America's weakening, and America's weakening is the only
solution for Washington's imperial grandeur to return to the much sought after -
by Kremlin - "strategic parity". For Washington, Europe's weakening has been a
historical, untreatable syndrome. When necessary, it has been just perfect for
exploiting by sanctioning Europe's "flirting" with Russia, so negligently hidden
under the cape of the new German-Russian relations. Through Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks that segment of the radicals of
American politics annoyed that Europe has not unreservedly embraced America's
"imperial destiny", but it has actually dared to criticize it, or to announce
its fading, long before it has reached its historical potential. The threat of
cutting the American contribution to Europe's security, through its
repositioning in NATO, or even the possible passing into "oblivion", or "torpor"
of this organization is just another way of telling Europe that if it doesn't
find a way to make itself useful to America, it could very well become a pile of
historical relics, not just from a tourist point of view, but politically as
well. With bombs and harsh words, somebody is shaping up the future of a
Europe that is different from what the great men of the post-war generation
wanted. And in this future, war in its newest, or oldest forms, is not just an
integral part, but also a part of the definition of the future itself.
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