{"id":1436,"date":"2019-10-31T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:52:52","slug":"the-causes-of-mistakes-that-brought-to-international-geopolitical-weakness-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"The causes of mistakes that brought to International Geopolitical Weakness the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Turkish invasion of northern Syria and its successful military outcome\nfor Turkey, while the inability to establish an intense and well-organised EU\nresponse on this issue, highlighted the very low power that the EU holds to\ninfluence any geopolitical developments in the Middle East neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This EU weakness is based on geopolitical\nmistakes in strategy that the EU has previously participated in and on previous\nmilitary interventions that took place in other Middle East countries and not\nonly, with a failed political result due to no plan for the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by <strong>Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way\nunlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal\npenalties for the infringer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The wrong strategies reveal the causes<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Middle East<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military invasion of Iraq (1991) known as the First Gulf War was intended to completely weaken the dictator Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) and his regime by turning Iraq into a controlled protectorate of the West. In the second Gulf War (2003) the invasion of Iraq in which the EU participated it was based on deliberately misinformation where the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) he owned weapons of mass destruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/320px-Multiple_F-15E_parked_during_Operation_Desert_Shield.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-777\"\/><figcaption><strong>F-15Es parked during the Operation Desert Shield (First Gulf War)<\/strong><br>Photo by Phan Chad Vann<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The invasion of its military arm succeeded in\nneutralizing Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime and his death but failed in its long-term\npolitical arm and given that Iraq neither managed to democratized nor became a\nsafe place for to develop modern democratic attitudes and actions that could\nlead to a modern functioning democratic governance. On the contrary, it became a battlefield of different and\ncorrupt factions that want to\ncontrol it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political, administrative and military\ncollapse of Iraq has enabled the influence of Iran&#8217;s theocratic regime to\nemerge dynamically in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. This was made possible by the collapse of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime, which\nwere Sunni, and the rise\nin the power of much of the\nIraqi population who are Shiites and they are controlled\nby Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shiitic majority of Iraq through Iran has\ngradually created the so-called barbaric in all respects an Islamic State that\noccupied about 30% of Iraq&#8217;s territory and in an expansive direction west of\nSyria. In addition, it was strengthened in terms of human resources, funding and\nweaponry, Hezbollah which is also Shiites\nand is supported by Iran.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political and administrative collapse of\nIraq was replaced by a chain of corrupt governments who cared about maintaining\ntheir power and their personal enrichment. The recent dynamic demonstrations by the Iraqi youth had to do with corruption and life\ndeadlock that face even though Iraq through its\nexports to oil could live the whole of its population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Western Balkans<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between the First and Second Gulf War took part the NATO invasion in the Western Balkans, and specifically in Serbia with aim to weaken Serbia, which is then supported by the weak from many sides Russia, for the benefit of the Albanian and Muslim population in the Western Balkans. EU participation in this type of air invasion and bombing was also evident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bosnia_mig29.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1437\" width=\"346\" height=\"276\"\/><figcaption><b>Wreckage of Yugoslav Mig29 jet fighter 1999 Uglijevik (Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/b>)<br>Photo by Spc. Tracy Trotter US Army<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result was to create an open wound and suspicion in Serbia, which today, with the help of Russia and its allies, is trying to find an opportunity to avenge its then bombing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unilateral support of the US and the EU to the Albanian-speaking population of the Western Balkans it will create a potential war between Albania and Serbia, increasingly removing Serbia away from the EU. Indeed, Serbia, a European country, concluded an agreement on its entry as a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union!!!!!!&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent refusal by France, Holland and\nDenmark to begin accession processes with the Western Balkan countries of North\nMacedonia and Albania, in addition to all others, have their base and these\nunresolved problems-open wounds of past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Middle East<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that the Second Gulf War (2003) took part based on the deliberately misinformation of the European Parliaments created a climate of suspicion and reflection among EU member countries. The great political victim of this deception by his country&#8217;s Parliament was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (1997-2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/320px-UStanks_baghdad_2003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1438\" width=\"377\" height=\"246\"\/><figcaption><strong>US tanks Baghdad 2003<\/strong><br>Photo by Technical Sergeant John l. Houghton Jr. USAF<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was considered the most responsible for the\ndeception of the English Parliament and the UK&#8217;s involvement in the Second Gulf\nWar in terms of false information about the possession by the Iraqi regime of\nweapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political collapse and obsolescence of Tony\nBlair had a dramatic, subsequent events, consequences for the EU. Tony Blair\nwas the most genuine EU-friendly leader of the UK, whose absence of both this\nand the Labour Party from power grissom and strengthened in the English society\nthe current momentum in favour of Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the UK&#8217;s next governments and\npower parties found that both public opinion and Parliament expressing voters\ndid not want for any reason the UK to be involved by taking part in war clashes\nwith their troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any UK government going against this hitherto\ngrounded view in the British public opinion would have very important political\ncosts. This became evident when former British Prime Minister David Cameron\n(2010-2016) failed to get the British Parliament&#8217;s approval to send British\ntroops to operations against the Assad regime in Syria, and when Assad made use\nweapons of mass destruction against his opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France (EU) pioneered and joined the United\nStates in the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 with the aim of overturning\nthe Assad regime. Today and after eight years of war the Assad regime is being\nmaintained in power with the help of the Shiites of Iran and Russia, while\nTurkey controls a territorial part of Syria without the EU being able to do\nsomething by simply remaining a spectator and even worse without to be\ncalculated by any of the war winners in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>North Africa<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU participation in military invasions through NATO did not only stop in the Middle East but took part in the air raid in Libya (2011) to overturn the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi (1969-2011), arguing effortlessly dissidents who had in their ranks and the tzichantists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coalition_action_against_Libya-en.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1439\" width=\"432\" height=\"455\"\/><figcaption><strong>Coalition Action against Libya<\/strong><br>Author: Jolly Janner<br>https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/deed.en<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome of the air raid was successful in\nits military arm but a failure in its political and administrative arm, in the\nsense that there was no credible plan to pass Libya into a new political phase\nthat would allow a democratic-style governance to be applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libya&#8217;s political and administrative collapse\nhas enabled, as in Iraq, the armed forces of various factions who are fighting\nin a civil war for the same benefit to emerge in the foreground, while the\nforces of the tzicantists are constantly appearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The failure of the political and administrative\narm of Libya day after air invasion had, in analogy, with British Prime\nMinister Tony Blair its own political victim, and given that France and the\nUnited States pioneered in the Libyan air raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012), a\npredominantly great EU politician with a vision to transform the EU into a federation\nwith a common budget and a common fiscal-tax policy, had been fully damaged politically while confronted with accusations that\nhe had received money from the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi to finance his\npresidential campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Middle East (Iraq, Syria), the Western Balkans (Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and North Africa (Libya) were crowned with failures for the EU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The error in all these cases was that the EU had never at its disposal a fully credible plan to be implemented on the day after that would stabilise existing or create from scratch all those political institutions that would lead to a democratic political and administrative transition these countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All that was achieved was chaos and prominence\nin most cases of new enemies-forces to the West and its culture, making it if\nnot impossible at least hostile the presence of the EU in these territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Collateral damages<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these wars in which the EU participated,\ncreated waves of refugees and migrants from both these countries and from other\nAsian and African countries to the EU. It is a fact that Iraq of Saddam Hussein\nfunctioned atypical as the shield of Europe against migratory flows originating\nfrom distant Asian countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh,\netc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya\nfunctioned as a shield against migratory flows from the countries of the\nsub-Saharan Africa. The problem of migration is experiencing both the EU&#8217;s\ncohesion and its institutions, as it gives the possibility of \u201crevolution\u201d to\nits member countries in relation to any common line decided by Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is lacking in the EU is both short-and long-term planning involving countries in its external region and international foreign policy in general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer to this problem is given by the start of the application of a common Eurozone federal type budget, which will allow the implementation of a common fiscal and tax policy across the euro area which in turn will finance both the creating a common defence policy and common EU armed forces and a common foreign policy that can be enforced by fist when it is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the &nbsp;reader &nbsp;who &nbsp;wants &nbsp;to &nbsp;know how all this is going to be achieved he\/she can read the analyses &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;titled &nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=262\">the &nbsp;Proper &nbsp;Way &nbsp;to &nbsp;achieve &nbsp;The Single &nbsp;Operating &nbsp;Federal &nbsp;Type &nbsp;Budget &nbsp;of &nbsp;the &nbsp;Eurozone-Part &nbsp;I<\/a>\u00bb &amp; \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=253\">the Proper &nbsp;Way &nbsp;to &nbsp;achieve &nbsp;the &nbsp;Single &nbsp;Operating &nbsp;Federal &nbsp;Type &nbsp;Budget &nbsp;of the &nbsp;Eurozone-Part II<\/a>&#8216;, &nbsp;as &nbsp;well as the &nbsp;four &nbsp;analyses entitled &#8220;the Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy-Part I, II, III, IV equally&#8221; &nbsp;in the &nbsp;category &nbsp;Economics &amp; Finance = &gt; Fiscal Economics &nbsp;and the &nbsp;analysis &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=159\">the Creation of the European (EU) Defense &amp; it&#8217;s defense Forces<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish invasion of northern Syria and its successful military outcome for Turkey, while the inability to establish an intense and well-organised EU response&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825,3],"tags":[25,1084,1040,124,258],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-eu","tag-libya","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-western-balkans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}