Why Is Europe Courting Revolution?

Alastair Crooke- It is Europe’s political fabric and societal cohesion that is in play – and its leaders are not just confused: They fear.

It is Europe’s political fabric and societal cohesion that is in play – and its leaders are not just confused: They fear.

All eyes remain on the U.S. election, and on fathoming its consequences. But in the shadow of ‘The Election’, there are other ‘moving parts’: Germany just offered Washington ‘a sweetheart deal’ in which, Europe – with Germany leading – accepts to leverage America’s full-spectrum strategy of isolating and weakening Russia and China. And in return it is asking the U.S. to acquiesce to German leadership of a ‘power-political’, European entity that is raised to paritywith the U.S. That, bluntly, is to say, Germany is angling for ‘superpower’ status, atop an EU ‘empire’ for the new era. Putin recognised such a possibility (Germany aspiring to be a superpower) during his recent speech to Valdai.

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