{"id":1930,"date":"2020-02-27T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2020-02-27T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T11:54:53","slug":"west-lessness-and-emmanuel-macrons-vision-for-a-sovereign-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"West-lessness and Emmanuel Macron’s Vision for a Sovereign Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 56th<\/sup> International Security Conference (2020 Munich Security Conference) held in Munich from 14 February to 16 February 2020 highlighted the real rifts that exist in the Western camp. These rifts describe the situation that the West displays in the International Geopolitical scene with the new term West-lessness. In other words, West-lessness means weakening the West on the International stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rifts, existential dills and reactions within the West<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international backdrop that exists today and has led to the use of the\nterm West-lessness  can be illustrated by\nthe existential divisions that afflict the Euro-Atlantic community and is\ncharacterised by  Brexit- the rise of\nChina and especially the time of current US President Donald Trump, who before\nthe end of the year completes his first four years as US President with a high\nchance of being re-elected President for another four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here lies the key that will determine whether to open the aeolian\nascetic for the West and the West-lessness turned into West-dissolution. The\nkey is the possible re-election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, which, as\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron pointed out in 56th<\/sup> Munich  Security  Conference,  a second dominance of Donald Trump in the US\nPresidency will inevitably be translated by the other western states as a\nstrategic choice of the US, while putting the Euro-Atlantic bond and NATO’s\nvery existence in a dire position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at the Munich Conference on Security, also defined the framework of the new Euro-Atlantic ties between the US and European NATO members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pointing out in his speech that the American leadership defines as the new, common enemy, the rising China and any relations between the US and Europe within NATO will be determined from now on by whether Europeans are capable of contributing to the US as a China’ s response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, relations between the Western allies will move, which will\ninevitably bring great friction and deepening the cracks of suspicion among\nwestern member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first reactions from Europeans to the new outlined framework of\nrelations set by Michael Pompeo, US Secretary of State, came at the same\nconference by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier who scathingly\nscathingthed the Donald Trump slogan “Make  America  Great  Again” because It inevitably leads to a\npath that will require more military equipping programs to achieve an\never-increasing degree of security and cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmanuel Macron’s vision for Europe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at this conference, raised the\nkey question on how and why the EU should have its own dominant European policy\nand not “crawl” behind US policy expressed through the adoption of\nall Euro-Atlantic policy by the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the President of France, bearing in his mind that EU security\nis necessarily going through Russia, raised in his speech the issue that\nEuropean policy on Russia should be differentiated from American influence\nbefore it can be autonomous and move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be achieved, and as he pointed out in his speech, only by\neliminating blind hostility towards Russia, so that Russia clings unto European\ninterests and not being forced to ally itself with China to avoid the isolation\nof the West. Harming by this position, Russia, the European interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the French President knows that as long there is the open wound called Eastern Ukraine, it is very difficult to bridge any contradictions between the EU and Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, however, his vision of “strategic independence” of the EU in order to become the third geopolitical pole of power on the international stage, against the US and China, leads him to have to sit at the same table as Russia and Vladimir Putin and agree to everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which can fully know the geopolitical game on the planet and demonstrating political power by entering the 2016 US election, knows this position of Emmanuel Macron. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, a common European security policy that is not characterised by prejudice sooner or later to be implemented over time should include Russia, enabling Russia to gradually disengage from the exclusive economic and trade dependency offered to it by China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, however, Russia does not forget that the French navy\nships patrol the Black Sea, French troops are located via NATO in Northern and\nEastern Europe and French-style missiles (along with corresponding US missiles\nand the UK) bombed the troops of Russia’s chosen President, President Assad, in\nSyria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dangers of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US effort to increasingly turn their nation’s forces towards the\nPacific Ocean to halt the rising China is perfectly reasonable. The Pacific\nOcean basin along with that of the Indian Ocean produces the most wealth as the\nmost populous region on the planet and potential wealth in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The longitudinal importance of the Pacific Ocean for the US is illustrated\nin the fact that most Americans of fallen and wounded war respectively appear\nin the battlefields of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Donald Trump policy, which necessarily leads his European allies into a field of relations whose sign will be determined by how much each time Europeans will generously assist the US in dealing with China stronger, carries many risks. We will very briefly mention that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> If the Europeans are “exhausted” by this US attitude towards them, they will try to find a way and an alliance with Russia without closing the door to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong> Given that Russia, in an alliance with the EU and plus the fact that it has a broad scope of influence in the Middle East, will ensure in return for the EU’s seamless ‘energy flow’, along with securing its own energy contribution to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> Russia will not disengage from its relationship with China so far, since China and its trade with Russia financially secure Russia and act as a hedge risk to any economic constraint Russia is experiencing today and in the future. Russia is equally valuable to China because it is Russia that acts as a guarantor of the implementation of the Chinese strategy for the control of Eurasia summarised in the plan \u00abOne belt, One road\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the above scenarios, Russia will be the link between the EU and China by uniting Eurasia economically and geopolitically, where Berlin (EU) will become the “mind” designer and mentor in the Eurasia body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Eurasia factories will be based in China in order to produce products for consumption from the largest population on the planet that will be living in the largest geographical part of the planet, Eurasia, with a high probability that Eurasia will control in the future the African continent and its populations by tying it up the African continent in the chariot of Eurasia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a nightmare scenario for the US would be the perfect geopolitical,\ncommercial and economic storm equivalently for U.S. interests and prosperity,\nforcing the U.S. to find a way to “swallow” and digest a\nfrighteningly gigantic the trade deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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