The main theme of the U.S. President’s visit to Europe (UK and Germany) — the Transatlantic trade and investment partnership TTIP), hyperproject that will destroy Europe as we knew her. Everything else — Arab refugees, Syria, Russia, Turkey, the UK out of the EU — particularly on the way to a total change in the world.
The subject of TTIP in fact, was dedicated last Monday, the Hanover summit (USA, UK, Germany, France and Italy), this theme can be traced in virtually every, large and small, Barack Obama’s speech in the European territory.
The one ring
Not to be expected that the Hanover five will make a clear statement about TTIP, although common words were said enough. But Europeans in General got the full blast of Obama’s propaganda about how great it would be when the world begins to exist under the new rules.
In the US, Obama as the most gifted speaker of our time to perceive it ceased, in Europe it is not so. About the bright future of the Atlantic partnership, he talked well. And still he was not to try: it was the climax moment of the entire American foreign policy, in fact, not only by both administrations, but also the forces that stand behind them.
Suggest to pay attention to the author of the column two prominent ideologists of this policy, Ivo of Daalder and Robert Kagan. It is, in fact, a Manifesto, which says it all. And the fact that the United States must and will remain the eternal and only superpower, and that we are talking about the “renewal of American leadership”, and — since the material is written for an American audience — that no one benefits from this policy as the US (thanks for sharing).
In the current European trip, Obama outlined last, decisive steps towards that goal. The text of the agreement on TTIP, he said, needs to be agreed before the end of this year and go for ratification. Simultaneously, these same processes should take place in the Pacific with the agreement of the twin — TTP. Continue to pull can not be because Obama himself is leaving the White house January 20 (and still do not know who will come back), and at the same time it will be time to be re-elected to his like — minded German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande, members of the Hanover summit.
Note active Obama’s attempts to persuade Britons to vote in upcoming referendum in the summer for the country’s withdrawal from the EU. Like, what’s the problem? That the negotiations about TTIP are mainly through the mechanisms of the EU, that is, at the supranational level. Leave the Brits will start to fall apart the European Union, there will be a “technical” problem.
But actually this is not “technique”. You could even say, especially if you look to article of Daalder and Kagan that the case for the US looks like this: now or never.
The fact that TTIP and TPP are not only trade agreements. Suffice it to say that these negotiations are secret, even from members of Parliament, in the United States and Europe (and in Asia). Helped the villains of WikiLeaks, declassified some documents.
It turns out that if this thing comes into force, it will create a group of countries, which controls more than half of the world economy. That’s only if you talk about control, to implement it are not governments, and corporations, supranational power that no one will stop to re-elect, control. Of the state and nation, including the EU, will lose value, “ring” will be not even in the White house.
In recent years, so many times we all laughed at the crazy debunkers “of conspiracy shadow structures” that when all of them described coming true, it’s hard to believe. And have.
Compulsion to two blocks
Let’s remember what happened at the turn of the Millennium, when the EU was officially introduced into circulation the Euro and began to expand, drawing into its ranks all those possible and impossible. The media was dominated not just euphoria, it wasn’t really necessary for the USA euphoria, as many European analysts then said directly that economic — and with him the political weight of Europe may be more than the United States.
Let us also remember that when America began the 2003 war in Iraq, European leaders were, to put it mildly, not amused. It makes sense to not re-read one speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich security conference (February 10, 2007), and all the speeches on it. You will see that Putin is quite fit into the General mood of Europeans: what it is, one nation is trying to dictate the rules of the game around the world!
But by the beginning of the second decade of our century it turned out that the “European project” was blown away. “Helped, of course, the economic crisis of 2008, but not only he. Shy at first, talk about the fact that the EU has in the world of any weight, have become common place.
Note what happened with the idea of some of its own, almost separate from the United States European security institutions: something called the Western European Union officially ceased to exist in 2011, after decades of discussion.
By the way, there is such a figure — a trillion dollars. It appears in the US Congress, in all sorts of documents. This is the cost of the military infrastructure of the USA in Europe for 30 years — if the “ring” will succeed.
The projects of the TRANS-Pacific partnership and the Transatlantic mean, essentially, that the United States saw the destruction dvuhvekovoy, the bipolar structure of the world in the 1990s was in no way a victory. Raised his head the Europeans, there were countries such as China, are gaining economic and political weight. That instead of a bipolar world (the West against the Soviet Union) there is not the absolute power of a superpower, but something multipolar, unpredictable and dangerous, intelligent American head fixed, apparently, in the early 2000s.
And now America, in fact, gets the world back, builds again two familiar unit. Conventionally, United States with a brood-controlled allies, and China with his team. (Recall that neither China, nor Russia, nor close to them in multiple States in the TTIP and TPP no invitations were not sent, and rightly so).
And it would have been the reproducers of the old world all right, but their chosen tactics were so extreme that today is located in Europe Barack Obama have any really critical situation.
For starters: “trade agreements” are not just unpopular among the population of the US and EU (and what you want, if they are secret?). They steadfastly losing popularity, they like, according to various polls, has a maximum of one-fifth of respondents.
To continue: the West and the East is too blatant tactics of how to embroil the U.S. partners with China and Russia. Moscow and Beijing provoke military action (Ukraine, South China sea), and although the provocations they are not amenable, European and Asian victims of US find ourselves in an unbearable situation when you have nowhere to go, only under the wing of Washington.
Add to this the situation of refugees in Europe and other troubles: the overall picture is that someone in the U.S. overdone. Even Europeans do not like hopelessness. Therefore, they are gaining strength of the party, hitherto considered “non-systemic”.
In General, Europe in response to the blatant destruction of it much thought — about their own collapse. Obama need to hurry.
And last. “The one ring” is bad, but the alternatives can be almost worse. USA, the country bankrupt, in a similar situation 75 years ago actively provoked the Second world war in the East and the West, and remembers that she did all very well turned out.
Dmitry Kosyrev, a political commentator MIA “Russia today”
On materials: RIA Novosti
