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In the Chessboard Brezezinski stated the neither Russia or China alone could challenge the US lone super power standing, but the danger of collusion should the two find common interests could be formidable. My impression was that Europe could be handled and directed through economic carrot and stick influence as well as shaping their interests through common need, (i.e. future eurasian energy sources and security dependence), and through the NATO alliance. A year later the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia occurred, followed with a US led NATO coalition with some grumbling, but no real detractors. In effect whether caused by the civil wars or other instigations, the baltic states turmoil played right into the master plan of isolating Russia while picking off the buffer zone countries, and with the added benefit of the corporate globalization of the resources and societies, not to mention forward reaching military installations.
Excerpt page 84 (Chessboard)
~~ In any case, it ought to be axiomatic that Europe's political unity and security are indivisible. As a practical matter, in fact it is difficult to conceive of a truly united Europe without common security arrangement with America. It follows, therefore, that states that are in a position to begin and are invited to undertake accession talks with the EU should automatically also be viewed henceforth as a subject in effect to NATO's presumptive protection.
Accordingly, the process of widening Europe and enlarging the transatlantic security system is likely to move forward by deliberate stages. Assuming sustained American and Western European commitment, a speculative but cautiously realistic timetable for these stages might be the following:
1. By 1999, the first new Central European members will have been admitted into NATO, though their entry into the EU will probably not happen before 2002 or 2003.
2. In the meantime, the EU will initiate accession talks with the Baltic republics, and NATO will likewise begin to move forward on the issue of their membership as well as Romania's, with their accession likely to be completed by 2005. At some point in this stage, the other Balkan states may like wise become eligible. ~~
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It helps to keep in mind that during the writing of this book, Russia was in the process of being looted of half a trillion dollars fomenting further economic collapse, and further isolating the former superpower, while the buffer states in Central Europe are by plan being folded into NATO influence, ( first the weaponry), and then the later plan of privatizing and globalizing the economies, ( the economic subjugation). The latter, the effective liberation of resources and labor from the nation states purview when privatized into the global market, and then hamstringing national economies with the various debt instruments used toward eventual economic subjugation, i.e. the World Bank , IMF, the usual culprits.
Europe is mostly treated as an assumed inferior partner in the organization and utilization of the master global plan of controlling and distributing the resources and wealth of Eurasia. Unfortunately for these imperialistic partners, the folks that inhabit the middle east resources, are terribly resistant to others' plans for their homelands, cultures, and economies. Hell of a thing, being born on top of all that black industrial gold. Leaves the people in the position of seeming antagonistic when they won't give it away to the more 'civilized' industrial societies of the first world.
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