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The EU and the US
yapchongyee  Updated: 2005-02-22 11:30

President Bush has "LOST FACE" on the issue of the EU wanting to lift the embargo on the export of arms to China. I have said before and it is now fact that the issue would have exposed the INDEPENDANCE OF THE EU FROM AMERICAN MEDDLING; and such exposure would have added to the diminishment of the STATUS AND PERCEPTION OF THE USA AS A SUPER-POWER OF THE WORLD.

It was so obvious that the "embargo issue" if it became a bone of contention between the EU and the USA would have truely tested and defined the separate and independance of EU. Bush must have realised that the word of the USA does not have the same respect from the EU as they were used to.

The USA is not the so called exceptional and virtueous AND 'BENEVOLENT" nation that the USA sees as their heritage. The USA is today seen as the greatest PREDATOR IMPERIAL POWER IN THE MODERN WORLD. The USA aspires to be the WORLD GOVERNMENT and to achieve this the Bush Administeration sought to under mine the United Nations and to eventually destroy the United Nations; hence the GLOATING OF DON RUMSFELD'S DIVISIVE STATEMENT OF OLD EUROPE AND NEW EUROPE in his dispute with France and Germany.

New Eu members like Poland and lithuania and Romania, thinking that they can gain by allying with the USA are now leaving in double quick time. The reality of today's geo-economic and political is fast shifting away from a dominant USA; and I believe that this reality is dawning on the "OLD EUROPEANS".

The fact of this reality is that the EU means to realise their own place in the world community; and contrary to the USA's thinking the EU does not mean to sub-ordinate their ambitions to promote their own-eminence. The rise of the European Union will logically DIMINISH THE IMPORTANCE AND THE USA; this is inevitable because the resources of the world is limited and fast diminishing. It therfore becomes a zero sum game. THE EU CAN CHOOSE ONLY ONE COURSE 'TAKE IT OR LOSE IT TO THE USA OR ASIA.

My analysis clearly mark out the world as multipolar in fact; and it will be centered at BRUSSELS, BEIGIN AND WASHINGTON. Each for himself. There are no allies and no enemies, you pick a partner that will give you the best profit.

I watched the TV appearance of President Jac Chirac and President Bush; while their appearance were openly cordial; BUT I NOTICED THAT THE SMILE OF PRESIDENT JAC CHIRAC WAS NOT WARM, HE WAS ACCOMMODATING AND RESERVED. this tells me that the defferences between the two are more entrenched than the Western Media would have us believe.


 
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