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EUROPE AT WAR
30-04-2024Europe is at war, a third world war, with Putin's Russia, and maybe with some of his allies in the future. And Europe's future is at great risk. U.S support - as Europe received in two world wars and the Cold War thereafter, is uncertain at best, with the prospect of Donald Trump as next president. Putin, in power since the end of 1999, is doing exactly what had announced from the outset: restore the Russian Empire by force in war with Europe and America. The genocidal war in Ukraine is bound to have a follow up against NATO and EU Europe.
The European Union must act in self-defence and must do so right away. As one can read in the attached article, the EU is not ready. It promises and pretends a lot, but is not up to the task before it, despite the changes over the last two years. Its decision-making structure is too complicated to enable any of its institutions to decide couraguously and forcefully. The national prima donnas must still learn to serve the common good of Europe.
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The Illusions of Detente
Footprints of the 20th Century - Third EditionDescription
Since 1989, we refer to the whole post-war period as the “Cold War Era”. Such was not the case in 1968. At the time, the Cold War – in our perception – was behind us. We no longer felt to be in the midst of it. Europeans on the Western side of the Iron Curtain0 felt relatively at ease with Europe’s division. The era of Détente as we called it, was0 considered to be a fairly stable and long-lasting political condition, even after Soviet tanks crushed Dubcek’s socialism with a human face in Pragu