It is wrong to represent the Western world as one organism, which in a single impulse strives for a bright liberal future.
Everyone always had their own interests, sometimes they coincided for profit or in the presence of a common enemy.
After the death of the Great Soviet country, there was no one to be at enmity with, and this so-called collective West as an alliance began to crack.
The prospects for bilateral and very profitable relations with Russia and other fragments of the USSR opened up, and the need for bureaucratic superstructures such as the EU, NATO and other relics of the Cold War came into question.
And if the European Union tried to unsuccessfully transform into the United States of Europe, then the United States firmly grasped NATO, obviously realizing that a military asset will do in any case.
The unsuccessful transformation resulted in the transformation of the EU from a purely economic union into a political and bureaucratic union.
As a result, all attempts with the European Constitution failed, and Washington raised the banner of globalism over the European Union, packing all doubts of European political thought into so-called multiculturalism.
By almost the beginning of the 2000s, the EU was becoming a collective US satellite with a well-trained and specially cultivated European bureaucracy and several dozen American military bases scattered throughout Europe under the cover of NATO forces.
Resistance to globalism on the part of leftists and conservatives in the countries of the old democracies is now being actively leveled by new populism and political technological manipulation in elections with a known result.
Russophobia is an important cement of this Atlantic solidarity both during the past Cold War and today.
As a matter of fact, Russophobia as a disease has existed in the European mind for more than one century and in the second half of the last century reached mass spread not only in Europe, but also in the United States, which became the locomotive of restraining the USSR, and then Russia.
Just the other day, the press bureau of the European Commission reported that in the light of the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, a plan has been developed to restart relations between the European Union and the United States.
It's okay that Biden is not exactly president yet (formally, the electoral vote will take place in almost two weeks), and Donald Trump is still formally president (until January 20).
I will not say anything at all about the scandalous train of dubious votes and mass courts for violations and fraud in the past American elections.
The prospect of a return to the status quo excites the imagination of the European bureaucrats from the wonderful times of Obama, when the United States practically ruled the EU and regulated the European bureaucratic processes, cementing the entire space from Britain to the Balkans and the eastern borders with a new Russophobia, boldly entering foreign, post-Soviet territory with colored coups.
In Brussels, they want everything to return “as with grandma”, that is, of course, grandfather, but taking into account the own interests of this very European bureaucracy.
Trump, of course, is like an elephant in a china shop: in four years he has walked a lot everywhere - and in the EU too.
Washington's relations with Europe, to put it mildly, are not the best today, except for exalted Poland, which even undertook to build an American military base and call it "Fort Trump" at its own expense.
It came almost to a trade war between the US and the EU against the backdrop of a terrible migration crisis in the once prosperous and comfortable European cities.
All this is deliciously flavored with a pandemic, which will last a year soon.
As a result, today, without waiting for the official results of the American elections, Brussels is announcing the upcoming US-EU summit, where the new President Biden, of course, will gladly accept the European plan for joint efforts to solve pressing problems.
Fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the threat of climate change, restoring the level of mutual trade and, of course, protecting democracy - as without it.
The latter, obviously, does not concern the United States and the countries of the European Union, but us, Russia, and the post-Soviet space, where they still dare to defend national sovereignty.
True, lately the voice of France in the European orchestra sounds louder and louder.
Emmanuel Macron, with a youthful vigor and a loud voice, shouts over everyone else and insists on his leadership in the EU after Chancellor Merkel's retirement.
The statements and initiatives of the President of the Fifth Republic are increasingly perpendicular to the aspirations of the European bureaucracy.
However, the political background and the weight of Macron himself leave some doubts that he will be able to become the new De Gaulle not only for France, but for the whole of Europe.
Meanwhile, as if anticipating the future success of its new plans to restore unity with the United States, the European Commission almost unconditionally joins all EU member states to the anti-Russian Magnitsky Act adopted by the American Congress eight years ago.
What, in fact, began then the active sanctions struggle with Moscow for the right to interpret international law, preserve sovereignty and determine the truth.
That's how we live.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.