Europe in the Geopolitical Processes of the 21st Century
World War II predetermined Europe’s role as a subordinate power. It is incorrect to impose the view that Europe’s unification is aimed at creating a new strong financial, economic, and political center for counteraction. Initially, this was aimed against the USSR and the so-called socialist bloc, and later, after its collapse, against the Russian Federation (RF). The very expansion of the EU to the east, carried out not for financial-economic reasons but mainly for political ones, is indicative of its true orientation. A number of poor, underdeveloped European countries from the east and southeast of the continent have taken advantage of this and seek to continue doing so.
In reality, the EU was created and operates as an additional, auxiliary tool in America’s efforts to dominate the world.
Europe’s subordinate role is conditioned by the following factors:
1. Complete financial, economic, and technological dependence, into which the individual countries from the developed part of the continent fell after World War II. This dependence deepened during the Cold War and, surprisingly, became even more drastic after the collapse of the bipolar model. Hence, a new enemy was found in the form of the Russian Federation. The grip is so ironclad that every attempt by more developed European economies to act independently is unequivocally suppressed. American interests are placed above all else without question.
2. Europe is not free politically either. It is entangled in a military-political alliance through which the Americans maintain this dependence. NATO allows the U.S. to maintain military contingents in various parts of the European continent. This military presence is a serious political mechanism for imposing political dependencies.
Europe’s political and financial-economic dependence does not make it, in any way, a separate center of opposition against Russia, because it is merely an appendage, a passive conduit, and executor of the omnipresent American interests, which are ultimately aimed at acquiring Russia’s resources.
The strategic location of the U.S., an ocean away, has its advantages, mainly in military terms, but also its disadvantages, primarily economic. The control of Russian raw material wealth would allow the U.S., in its quest to perpetuate global hegemony, to continue dominating Europe – still one of the most developed regions of the world.
According to plans by American think tanks, by 2025-2026, the U.S. must deal with Russia, and by 2032, it must confront China. However, one important detail has been overlooked. China’s accelerated economic growth – one of America’s fundamental geopolitical mistakes – has fostered the rise of a new globally significant factor. This factor, which is no less ambitious, persistently undermines American hegemony. But China, emerging as the new financial-economic leader on a global scale, would be unable to carry out its hegemonic mission without access to Russia’s natural resources.
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