Europe's return to reality will be painful

NATO countries have diverged in positions regarding China.

According to Politico, there are two diverging positions among the member states of the alliance: containing Beijing or maintaining economic ties.

It would seem, where is Europe, where most of the NATO countries are located, and where is China.

But no, they dream of "restraining".

It's amazing, of course, how deeply Europe is stuck in its colonial mindset.

The non-participation of women in political life, the slave trade, and the criminal prosecution of pederasts are long gone.

More precisely, they didn’t just become a thing of the past, but turned into their complete opposite, the ideal politician is now a dark-skinned ex-male transvestite.

But the habit of treating everything located outside of Europe and the countries of the world founded by the Anglo-Saxons as their own backyard remained with the West.

As well as the holy confidence in one's own infallibility and total moral correctness on absolutely any issue.

Moreover, China, for all its system based on strict order, does not interfere at all in the internal politics of the countries with which it trades.

But this is not enough for the West, it needs to trade, look into the mouth, and obey.

Actually, it is Russia's unwillingness to do this that caused the current suicidal attempts to exclude our country from the world economic system.

The West understands and respects only direct and brute force.

But China, for all its economic power, does not have, unlike Russia, historical examples of opposition to the combined military power of the West.

In addition, China is not at all interested in stopping economic growth and transitioning the economy to a military footing.

Russia, by the way, is also not interested, but we were simply left with no other choice.

Therefore, there is no doubt that, despite the divergent positions within NATO, the collective West will continue to test China for the strength and firmness of the red lines.

At least until the leadership of the United States in the Western world is challenged by no one.

It should be understood that the only real threat to the United States (apart from a Russian nuclear strike, but we do not consider this option) comes from within the United States itself - just as the Soviet Union could only be destroyed from within, it was impossible to defeat it from the outside.

And if the fall of the United States begins, then it will be impossible to stop it - just as the USSR was doomed already somewhere after 1989, after Karabakh and other outskirts broke out.

Given the ever-intensifying confrontation between Republicans and Democrats, civil clashes in America are most likely a matter of time.

But, of course, no one can guarantee that the situation will directly develop according to the Soviet scenario and in a few years there will be 50 independent states wary of each other in the place of the United States.

But there are no eternal empires, history has proven it.

So the main task of any country that intends to maintain its subjectivity in the future is not to put all the eggs in one basket and be ready for the fall of the current self-appointed world hegemon.

This is what Russia does.

This is what China does.

This is what India does.

This is done by Turkey, which, by the way, remains a member of NATO, but uses its strategic role as a “castle” on the Black Sea in order to have quite a noticeable freedom within the alliance.

But in modern Europe, subjectivity is extremely seriously limited.

No, it cannot be said that it is completely absent.

But really important, strategic issues cannot be resolved without permission from Washington either by Berlin or Paris, let alone Budapest (for all the special position of the latter).

So the “decline of Europe” predicted more than a hundred years ago actually came back in the 40s of the last century, when Western Europe was so afraid of the USSR that it agreed to exchange freedom for the promise of security.

But if the United States plunges into internal problems or even breaks up, then the decline of Europe in the truest sense of the word may come.

I believe that those NATO countries that insist on maintaining relations with China understand this very well.

But those who are ready to break off relations with the rest of the world in favor of the United States are either naive, or stupid, or have completely fallen out of reality.

Or all together and at once - this also happens.

The return to reality will be extremely painful for them, but they have no one but themselves to blame for their inevitable future problems.

As you know, whoever chooses security between freedom and security inevitably loses both.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.