I’ve talked about the dominance of the US over Europe. This is American policy. And it always has been. The US wanted a “whole” Europe aka unified so they could claim it was free. But the entire time it the EU was to be dominated by the US to eventually be used as a bulwark against Russia.
Especially important after the US puppet in Russia, Boris Yeltsin, fell from power. We can see the European screen still covering for the US dominance that is still at work today.
The dominance by the US of the EU is what contributes to it’s general dysfunction and leaves it’s citizens alienated from a leadership that does NOT serve Europe’s own.
Nothing has changed from what I can see.
Therefore we’re going down the forgotten history lane. As we did yesterday, remembering the Gene Sharp information- hope you all read it? Maybe it was new information to some of you? I don’t know.
For today let’s look back to the American policy that preceded the creation of the EU
President George H.W. Bush had ‘the vision thing’ in spades
President George H.W. Bush ascended to the presidency with a reputation for experience, judgement, integrity, and a steady hand. However, the looming question was whether he could inspire people with, in his own words, “the vision thing.”
That quotation, first reported by Robert Ajemian in a Time feature in 1987, dogged George H.W. Bush throughout his presidency. Yet, President George H.W. Bush – more than any post-Cold War president – successfully articulated a vision of a “Europe whole and free” that became an historically successful strategy guiding US policy for the subsequent twenty-five years. Indeed, his words, first spoken when I was a high school student gripped by the possibilities of the end of the Cold War, have inspired my own career for the past three decades.
On May 31, 1989, President H.W. Bush – speaking in Mainz to the citizens of a then still divided Germany – set out his vision for American leadership in support of a united Europe built on the foundation of lasting security and shared values of democracy, freedom, and prosperity.
He said, “For forty years, the seeds of democracy in Eastern Europe lay dormant, buried under the frozen tundra of the Cold War. And for forty years, the world has waited for the Cold War to end. And decade after decade, time after time, the flowering human spirit withered from the chill of conflict and oppression; and again, the world waited. But the passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. The world has waited long enough. The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free.”
Only four months into his presidency,
he delivered remarks that shaped not only his administration’s strategy, but became an American bipartisan grand strategy for the coming decades.These remarks were an audacious challenge to those living behind the Iron Curtain and set a high bar for America’s aims in Europe – words all the more notable coming from a famously cautious US president.The story of a Europe whole and free began as a united Germany, the restoration of the nations of the Central and Eastern Europe, the independence of Russian and other nationalities from Soviet communism. “Europe whole and free” at first embodied the hopeful future of the continent no longer divided by the Iron Curtain with half beholden to totalitarianism. Yet, soon, dramatic political and security shifts on the ground forced Washington and Brussels to define a set of policies toward Western Europe’s post-Communist, eastern neighbors.
President Bush drew on a common transatlantic grand strategy from much earlier, making it relevant for the dawn of the end of the Cold War. The United States fought World War II not only to defeat the Nazi menace, but to help Europe emerge from war in a way that would never force the United States to fight again in Europe.
After forty-five years of Cold War, President Bush forged a bipartisan US policy to fulfill our original aims of 1945.
Give a listen to George H W Bush’s speech- You will understand he is talking about the creation of the EU