US President Joe Biden's European tour is the focus of all world news. Experts and analysts spend an incredible amount of time explaining, telling, chewing on the meaning of every phrase and gesture. But still there is a feeling of a superficial approach. So we agreed to promote democracy throughout the world. So we decided to abandon trade wars, discussed cyberattacks, ecology. When there is such a simple enumeration of topics, sometimes the global essence of the maneuver remains outside the focus of attention. Why hold three major meetings one after the other at once before meeting with Vladimir Putin? Why shake things up with the words "America is back", why come and inspect the property? And this is exactly how it looked, at least in NATO.
A long blue path, along which all the leaders walked between small trees, led right past the few press (many were simply denied accreditation). Whoever wanted heads of state - stopped, gave comments. But those were guests from different countries of the world. And the owner was also at this celebration of life. No, not the general secretary of this organization. And Joe Biden. The owner has everything as it should be - the largest motorcade, the most guards and a separate entrance. A string of cars led by a "monster" (I'm talking about the Beast car, don't think too much) drove past this path, the journalists sighed in frustration.
Joe Biden was personally met by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. His excitement was difficult to hide, he waved his arms, caught every word of the American president, smiled at him, sat with his leg tucked in when he settled down in an armchair in a businesslike manner. Well, that's understandable, 70% of the organization's budget is financed by the United States. It was funny to see how many leaders wanted to at least stand side by side with Biden. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who will host the NATO summit next year, ran up to him right after the official photo and walked together for 29 seconds. I told him something quickly. Probably, I managed to discuss many important topics. The network then laughed at this.
The summit itself this time was very fast, the shortest in the last 20 years. Each leader has less than five minutes to speak. They spoke out and signed what had already been prepared and agreed upon in Washington; it was not for nothing that Stoltenberg flew there just a week ago. So, enemy number one - Russia, on the horizon appeared enemy number two - China. Everything we do together must be tracked. Therefore, a special center will be created in NATO to collect data on technological development, military, on all political steps, hybrid actions, disinformation. Full monitoring of everything, it will be recorded and consolidated in the future strategy of the alliance. Total surveillance. No, this, of course, is not another cold war, this is different. But again the familiar wording sounds - China is very close to NATO. He is active in Africa, Asia, and Europe, threatening interests,does not share values. But what does the North Atlantic Alliance have to do with it, in the very name of which there is a slightly different geography of interests?
This discrepancy, by the way, was noticed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
He says that his world cards are probably bad, where is China and where is NATO.
But, being in Brussels, he never raised any objections.
France, like all other countries, will bring military spending to 2% of GDP, because all these new projects need money.
Paris, like everyone else, is not opposed to spending 20% of NATO's annual budget on the purchase of modern weapons from the United States.
After all, you must help your overseas friend.
With the military-political orientation, everything is clear.
The economic summit that followed is also very interesting.
If we continue to quarrel with the EU on various topics, introduce all kinds of duties, then it will be difficult for the United States to compete economically with China.
The States understand this. And if you unite the efforts of the Western world around you, then we will talk about half of the world's GDP. Solid. Hence the decision to freeze the duties on steel and aluminum imposed under Trump for six months. Hence the sudden end of an endless dispute that has lasted nearly 20 years between Boeing and Airbus. Fines, duties, $ 10 billion were spent on all this. And then, overnight, the work of experts, the parties were reconciled. Why would it suddenly.
It becomes clear if you look east again - by the end of the decade, the Chinese Commercial Aviation Corporation will become a serious competitor to the European and American aviation giants. They have no time to swear. We also talked about the protection of strategic sectors of the economy from investments from other states, discussed the environment - an issue behind which lies the possible introduction of taxes on goods produced in countries with increased greenhouse gas emissions. They discussed the sanitary crisis, of which the United States still considers China to be the main culprit. In general, a large professional team worked in all areas. Various scenarios of development and options were calculated, how to make sure that China does not get ahead, and how to prevent its further rapprochement with Russia. Somewhere it may seem that the States made concessions, somewhere rolled back,but make no mistake, they have a very long-term strategy and in the long term such steps will bring them only one benefit.
The lifting of sanctions against Nord Stream 2 fits into the same framework. They were removed, if I am not mistaken, from European companies (it is now profitable for them to be friends with Europe), Russian ships are still on the list of restrictions. It is also interesting that the meeting between Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not come down to a simple reprimand for the purchase of Russian S400 anti-aircraft systems. It would be too unproductive, a waste of time. Turkey was offered Afghanistan. After the American troops are withdrawn from there, the only NATO members who will remain there - Turkish soldiers, will guard the Kabul international airport and foreign diplomats. For Erdogan's imperial ambitions, this is an excellent gift after the April whip - the recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Americans this spring.
So Biden's team has done a tremendous job on all fronts. His arrival summed up this work. And although China is not an enemy for European politicians focused on protecting national interests, it is rather a profitable economic partner, key posts in EU institutions are now occupied by globalists - Washington's main allies. There are many of them at the helm in European countries. Therefore, they are ready to defend the interests of the United States, sometimes even to the detriment of their own. The Group of Seven is a kind of think tank of the Western world, NATO is the military-political, the European Union is its economic structure.
Successive summits are a global synchronization of clocks and consolidation of actions in all spheres at once: ideological, military-political, economic and financial.
Now, with the whole alignment in hand, Joe Biden flew to Geneva.
China is China, but nevertheless, it is the negotiations with the Russian president that the world media call the meeting of the year.
And their results must also be viewed from the same global perspective.
There will be no more friendship and reboot with the United States, no matter what Biden says.
And so it will be all the time as long as Russia remains an independent and independent player on the world stage.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.