Some of these menaces ware real , some
exaggerated or simply -fictions but however Americans succeed
in their attempts to show them as reasons which are enough for
the continuation of the American presence on the European
shores of the Atlantic ocean . Because America is naval , not
continental power ,except the Atlantic in the whole "defense "
structure has been incorporated Mediterranean sea with
maritime Mediterranean countries .This moves resulted with the
creating of the clear contours of of North Atlantic alliance
which are involving the both shores of the Atlantic ocean and
Mediterranean Sea which can be count in this American strategy
of guarding of Europe and penetrating to the East as the gulf
of the Atlantic . But it is interesting that NATO was strictly
Euro-American alliance. Nether American puppet states from the
western hemisphere,nor the Asian countries like Iran or Iraq
didn't become NATO members . They created the whole system of
the alliances from CENTO in Central Asia , SEATO in South East
Asia to ANZUS pact in the south Pacific .All this alliances
are characterized by gerographicly,military and political
specific elements of their member states .Contrary to unstable
social structures of the Asian allies ,European or more
precisely Northatlantic allies proved themselves as successful
recipients of the American system of democracy ,human rights
and market economy ,even surpassing their own transatlantic
teachers.If we have in mind that the most of them are
commercial and maritime nations there wasn't any big surprise
because of the accepting of the values which ware for a long
time indivisible part of Dutch or English history.
In
fact these maritime ,commercial states represents archetype of
the contemporary American maritime atlantist civilization.In
the words on American annalist Michael Lind in his text
"Toward the global society of the states " published in August
2002 in "The Wilson Quarterly " : "...There is no
contradiction between this kind of limited and incidental
strategic imperialism, which has permitted the United States
to take part in global power struggles by using overseas
military bases, and the principled hostility of American
leaders to attempts by the European powers and Japan to divide
most of the earth's inhabitants and resources among a small
number of autarkic empires. Precedents for America's oceanic
web of ports, canals, coaling stations, and airfields can be
found in the maritime empires created by such older commercial
republics as Venice and the Netherlands..." In fact Americans
couldnt establish strict imperial order because they are not
continental civilization,not because of their moral
principles.Here they are following the historical examples of
the maritime civilizations from Carthage,to the Netherlands
and Venice .The Atlantist and Mediterranean countries ,members
of EU and NATO are following the same maritime-commercial
archetypes ,in much longer period then the USA. Because of
that it is not difficult for them to "accept " the so could
western ,in fact atlantist values and to involve them in their
own social structure .It is different situation in the central
and eastern Europe where strong continental traditions are
opposing to atlantist values and because of that Americans
have different approach in this part of the continent.
It is the same case of promoting
"western" values even with Turkey ,which is more then 8
decades (with the reforms of Ataturk )on it's way of
westernization of society and introducing of capitalist
economy like in any other western society ..The lack of the
respect for the basic human rights is the result of the
transformation of a traditional society to a kind of modern
,western type society . There ware similar problems in Spain
and Portugal ,but nobody ever questioned their loyalty to the
west .The whole process of their westernization was finished
with their acceptance as EU members .Because in the case of
Turkey there are bigger civilization and cultural differences
it should be expected longer process then it was the case with
Spain and Portugal,but the final aim and the final result
would be the same . It just shows that so could "western"
values do not have anything in common with western
civilization but contrary to that they are product of the
atlantist civilization which is antiwestern and antieuropean
in all of its main aspects.
American (atlantist )
geopolitician D.Maning in his work "Heartland and Rimland in
Eurasian history " published in 1956 shows the atlantist point
of view on the geopolitical essence of the different lands and
regions of Europe and Eurasia .He writes :
"...China,Mongolia,North Wietnam,Afghanistan,East Europe(
including Prussia ),Baltic lands and Karelia are the regions
with organic orientation toward the heartland South Korea
,Burma,India,Iraq,Siria,Yugoslavia are geopolitical
neutral West Europe,Greece,Turkey,Iran,Pakistan,Thailand
have predisposition toward the talasocratic bloc. ..* " As
we can see Turkey is essential atlantist,pro talasocratic
country and it is the main reason for its acceptance in the
"western" civilization circle.
These intellectual
remarks found their realization in the reality with creating
talasocratic blocs ,involving there countries like Greece
(NATO ) ,Turkey (NATO and CENTO),Iran (CENTO),Thailand (SEATO)
but also in the attempts to attract the so could geopolitical
"neutral" countries in these atlantic creations like
Yugoslavia (with the creating of the antisoviet Balkan pact
between Yugoslavia,Greece and Turkey in 1953 ) or Iraq ( with
its involvement in CENTO ) .The final destiny of these two
geopolitical "neutral " countries can show the real intentions
of the Atlantist with their continental partners.But also the
brave resistance of strictly continental North Vietnam can be
example of the positive understanding of geopolitical essence
of continental states. In the partition made by D.Maning North
Vietnam belongs to the same group as China, East Europe and
Prussia - the regions with organic orientation toward the
hearthland.We can add - the regions with traditionalist
civilization which is in total oposition with Anglo-American
atlantist bloc. They already have the potentials. They just
need a kind of mental,intelectual revolution to achieve to
realize their geopolitical potentials . .
Americans
achieved to realize their success from 1945 with the creation
of NATO .There troops ware already in Germany,Italy , even in
Greece , and the creation of NATO was in fact political and
legislative form , a kind of legalization of the situation
which was already existing on the ground . However contrary to
the Warsaw pact , NATO didn't have firm,compact imperial
characteristics. Americans established and maintained their
control through the whole range of diversions from inteligence
to political and economic. The intervention in Greece is the
only clear example of the classical military intervention but
it was realized before the creation of NATO at all . Also
there ware plans for the US intervention in Italy but the
"solution" was found through the CIA sabotage ,like in the
case of France where Americans ware creating successful
cooperation with the local mafia elements with the main aim of
destabilizing the society and its efforts and struggle for
more independence . Except this kind of sabotage Americans
ware using economic pressures and blackmails.They ware using
the desperate dependence of the French people on the American
food supplies to create a kind of obedience and to destroy the
potential existence of the independent elements.Because there
wasn't total control ,especially not under the countries which
didn't participate in the second world war like Spain and
Turkey in the first period of its existence NATO was a kind of
alliance of free countries -partners, more a cooperation of
similar north atlantic regimes united in their efforts to
realize particular values and to press out their political
opponents. The realization of the "western " values , and the
deployment of US troops like the guardians of these values ,
was the main task of NATO partners in this period.
NATO AND EAST EUROPE
This conception is changing essentially
with the victory in the cold war. The Washington strategists
need some time to create new strategy which would supported
military and political spreading toward east .Here we should
emphasize that EU played the role of the logistical support to
this spreading in the first years after the fall of the Berlin
wall , with its economic penetration and support to many
different prowestern mondialist groups establishing by that
fundaments for the later American military and political
penetration which was unthinkable in 1991 with the Russian
military power in Europe still on the more superior level then
it is today.The North Atlantic pact couldn't use in Eastern
Europe,deep in the mainland of European continent the same
patterns which ware used in western Europe . The countries of
the traditional German influence ,strictly continental,without
any contact with the sea like Hungary,the Czech Republic and
Slovakia ware not favorable at all for this kind of
spreading.Because of that the total new strategy has been
created and its essence represents NATO sponsored program -
"Partnership for peace " .with its main aim transformation and
accommodation of the Easteuropean countries according to NATO
standards In fact is was the whole system of taking steps
which essence was the gradual nivelisation ,not only of the
military forces but also of the political system and national
spirit of the countries of East Europe on the particular level
which would be appropriate for the eventual integration with
the transatlantic partners . The mighty Easteuropean countries
would represent potentially equal ally for Washington and
there will be no any opportunity for their subordinance to the
American will and its interests . The European economy succeed
because of its territorial position ,experience and powerful
continental elements of its own economy beside the global
trilateral orientation . Because of these reasons German
economy in very short time transformed itself to the absolute
master of Czech and Hungarian economy . American military and
economic power with its maritime essence and its 50-years long
experience in the cooperation with western Europe , or in
other words with European shores of the Atlantic besides its
victory in the cold war wouldn't have any real chanches in the
heart of the continent .In fact US chances will be similar to
the chances of France in the 20-es and 30-es when it attempted
with the creating of so called Little Entante to organize East
European countries under one alliance and to stop the German
spreading toward east and the restoration of Austro-Hungary
.But however in this short-age alliance France was cooperating
with equal partners on the east and attempted to realize its
interests mainly through the ruling elite and pro-French
orientated intelligentsia . But similar develop of the
situation in East Europe today is not in complying with the US
interests . At the long terms that will mean the preservation
of the strength and potential of Eastern and Central Europe
for the future continental powers ,maybe for one future
Germany emancipated from the Washington influence or some new
Russia .Because of that contrary to classical alliance USA
choose the option of nivelization and extinction of East
Europe through many different programs and joint trainings and
maneuvers which reminds more on some childish games then on
serious military cooperation.
EUROPE LIKE MILITARY
POWER
Today it is very popular opinion that
Europe is economic giant and political and military dwarf .
Because of that it would be natural task of the European
politics to transform Europe to military and political power
and to take from Washington dominant political and military
role in the continent and in the world . This kind of
observation ignores the fact that contemporary Europe ,in fact
European Union is the result of uneuropean strategically plans
and their realization in the years after the second world war
and after the cold war .These two conflicts can be seen as two
American campaigns for conquering of Europe.The political
solutions which ware implementing after the second world war
and after the cold war ware result of US victory in those two
anti European campaigns .The transformation of Europe to
economic giant was the long standing aim of the American
strategists . Their aim is also the creation of the European
military forces and the strengthening of the political and
diplomatic role of Europe in the international relations.Just
let's take a look to the diplomatic role of Europe .The former
NATO general secretary Xavier Solana is actual chief of the
European diplomacy and represents the personification of the
European diplomatic efforts to intrude their own will and
their decisions and solutions of the actual world crises .
From the crises in former Yugoslavia ,to Israel-Palestinian
conflict ,the problem of Iraq and to Northern Korean question
there is no one simple point from the momentous decisions to
longstanding strategy ,political ideology and philosophy where
the interests of the EU are different from those of the USA
.There are some nuances ,which are nuances in the process of
the realization of the unique will .Also there are opposite
attitudes in the degree of globalization and the protection of
the national sovereignty,where Europeans are acting with more
caution , guided by their own historical experience which is
different from obvious American brutality.But looking
generally there are the most normal differences between allies
.There ware much bigger differences between Roosvelt and
Churchill ,Hitler and Mussolini or what we can say in the case
of Stalin and Mao Ze Dong ? But all these differences didn't
put a question on their alliances and their common aims . The
only difference is that in all these examples there are the
leaders of sovereign countries,while here we have parts of one
single carefully created structure in the period of last few
decades. Because of that it is less possibility of any
conflict because there are no classical relations between
sovereign nations, but relations between parts of the same
system .We should notice here that the main conflicts are
arising between Washington and particular European nations
like France and Germany which still have their own particular
national interests ,a kind of relic from multipolar and
bipolar past of the international relations. But it is another
essence of the relations between Washington and EU in
general.While France and Germany represents the model from the
past ,NATO and EU represents the model for the future as it is
seen with the eyes of mondialist strategists and the creators
of "the end of history " and similar ideologies
.
Is it possible today to say something
similar to the words of the French diplomat Jules Favre who
was talking in 1871 about the relations between Germany and
Russia and said : " ...We know about the intimacy of the
relations between the courts of Berlin and Saint Petersburg.
But it is out of doubt that the seed of their conflict is here
..." Is it possible that there is the base of the future
conflict between Brussels and Washington ,beside the whole
intimacy between the two mondialist centers ?
Even if this is a case orientation of
east European and Balkan countries toward one of these two
centers wouldn't get any benefit to the people of East Europe
or Balkans .It is enough to look at the modern history of
these countries ,just in the past two centuries and to
understand that alliance of east European or Balkan countries
with any single great power brought to them hostility from
other powers ,and internal conflicts ,divisions and traumas .
Contemporary which has its political,economic and military but
also its spiritual aspect too , with its manifestations like
the crises of identity .It is the result of this support from
East European and Balkan countries and its small nations to
the great powers in their conflicts.
It has to be
mentioned here that today there is no one single element of
the system of great powers or multipolar world .13 years ago
the so called bi polar world was defeated .The stability of
east european countries, especially of the Balkan countries
and the countries from former Soviet Union depended on the
bipolar structure of international relations. Today
international relations are characterized by the monopol of
power with trilateral global economy .Except this dark
scenario which comes to east europe from the west there are
the so called islands of freedom like China,Russia and Iran
which are charachterizing by their strength like Russia and
China or with their authentic antiwestern ideology and
political system like it is in the case of Iran and North
Korea Any mistake in the sistem,especilly the entry of the
"western" values means .perturbation of the stability and the
beginning of the return of the country in the "international
comunity " in fact in the American realm and under its
monopoly of power. Americans are aware of that and it is the
essential reason of their support of the Iranian and North
Korean reformators while hoping that though their efforts it
would be achieve the perturbation of the political system .If
they succeed to realize their interests in some different way,
they will immediately turn from their support of the
reformists and start negotiations with Iran mullahs
,forgetting Teheran students and the struggle for the human
rights .The example of Iraq and Afghanistan where former
brutal murders and criminals like Chalabi and Hikmatyar ware
supported by USA is clear proof about the real American
intentions in the world . If it is difficult to be maintained
authentic ideological and political system it is even more
difficult to establish and create it especially in the
contemporary conditions of the hostility geopolitical
surroundings. Because of that east European countries should
seek their future in the creation and development of the
authentic social,political,economic and defense system which
will be based on the east European spiritual and state
traditions ,not with their involvement in the western system
of power where they will get position similar to the positions
of the Central American countries or if they are more lucky
the position similar to the Turkish position in the west .
Contrary to that they should build authentical system which
will transformed east European countries to the islands of
freedom outside of the western global prison.Not only the
examples of Iran and North Korea but also the example of the
heroic resistance of the Bosnian Orthodox Serbs to the New
World Order, the lasting and successful Byelorussian
resistance and the resistance of Slovakia in the mid nineties
lead by Vladimir Mechiyar represents favorable fundament and
example for the future develop not only of east european
countries but of the whole European continent on its real
European values
Sasha Papovic (Serbia).
*Greece
has predispositions toward thalasocratic bloc only in the
Washington perseption because of it's teritory and the simple
geographical fact that Greece is Mediteranean country.But in
the whole history continental traditions especially the
traditions of Sparta and Byzant played more important role not
only in Greece but in whole Europe as the real represents of
continental values.Greece can't back it's own Spartan and
Byzant glory while it has pro- western thalasocratic
orientation whihc is more in the interest of Washington then
in the interest of Greek nation.Because of that Greece needs a
kind of historical transformation of it's own geopolitics wich
will orientated the state to more continental nature of it's
relations and transforming it from "the represent of the west
on the balkans" to the "island of freedom,out of the global
American prison,created on Byzantinian spiritual and statehood
traditions " .This kind of country,new Greece in fact new
Byzant will represent example for all other nations from
Adriatic to Pacific and also that can be one of the greatest
defeats for western thalasocratic geopolitics.
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