…OH, AND ABOUT THOSE CRACKS IN THE NATO ALLIANCE, LOOK AT WHAT ...

If you've been a regular reader here, you'll know that one of the things we've been tracking on this website is how American "exceptionalism" and unipolarism have actually been creating a backlash among the US'a more important allies, and producing some obvious fissures, cracks, and starins in the post-war system of alliances, like NATO. These cracks and fissures have grown to the point, as we've seen in previous weeks and months, that individual European nations are so upset over the heavy-handedness of the EU, growing dissatisfaction with the TTIP "agreement", US adventurism, and particularly the ongoing mess in the Ukraine, largely a creation of Washington, of various US NGOs, and corrupt Ukrainians, and an ongoing refugee crsis which some stories on the internet maintain is actually a creation of Washington's not Frau Merkel's making, that they are quietly but very definitely circumventing the whole Russian sanctions regime.

Witness, for example, the recent visits of German Laender politicians to Russia, the pending visit of Jean-Claude Juncker, the recent Italian refusal to allow the US to expand a naval base in Italy. Now, you can add Spain to the list of countries increasingly unhappy with the NATO-Washington-London diktats, a problem amplified by the continued British presence on Gibraltar:

Spain ‘betrays NATO allies’ hosting Russian warships – oh, really?

One wonders, exactly, what Spain has to gain from continued subservience to London and Washington, or by assuming and adopting its current "Russia is the big bad boy" narrative. As the article points out, Spain, still a sovereign nation regardless of what the dogmas of the western globalists says, is perfectly within its rights, and more important, is pointing our how deep and serious the cracks and fissures between the US and Europe have become:

But the fact that NATO has essentially frozen relations with Russia and that the European Union has imposed economic sanctions on the country hasn’t stopped NATO and EU countries from allowing Russian ships to use their Mediterranean ports for resting, refueling and restocking.

Malta, an EU member has also played host to Russian ships. Greece, which has continued to maintain friendly relations with Russia while also being member of both NATO and the EU, has done the same. It is believed Russia is also seeking the right to use ports in Cyprus. But according to Luke Coffey, an analyst at the Washington-based conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, of all the traitors to NATO, Spain is “the worst”. Spain’s behavior is “irresponsible” particularly at a time when Russia is actively attempting to “dismember” Ukraine, he says.

Leaving aside Coffey’s obvious lack of nuanced knowledge or expertise on the Ukraine crisis, there is one thing he’s right about: The issue reveals how divided Europe really is over its policy towards Russia. The “united front” is more like a flimsy facade, with countries reluctant to spoil their own individual relations with Moscow for the sake of a grand strategy of containment which may not really be to their benefit, particularly if there is a thaw in relations however unlikely that may appear today.

The mention of the Ukraine brings us to what is, at the moment anyway, one of the principal issues at the heart of the mess: the western, versus Russia's, narratives of what went on, and is going on, in the Ukraine, and its effect on Europe. The sanctions are an offshoot of that narrative, and the actions of the European nations, and particularly major nations like Italy, Spain, France, Germany, highlight the fact that while there may be public agreement on that narrative, that public agreement is increasingly fraying, while behind the scenes, and all along, everyone knew the narrative was problematic, at the minimum. To accuse Spain alone, as is now being done in Washington, is folly.

The time has come for a complete rethink and reset of European-American relations, because treating Europe as nothing but an American satrapy isn't working, and is only weakening, and not strengthening, ties. And if the Washington wheelers and dealers are as concerned about the growth of Russo-Chinese power and intentions are as worried as they claim to be, then they cannot afford to lose the friendship and goodwill of Europe. Gibraltar or no Gibraltar, Spain sits astride the gateway to the western Mediterranean. Alienating it is not a good idea.

That's my two cents' worth.

See you on the flip side...

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

12 Comments

  1. DownunderET on June 7, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    It’s surprising that these neocons “keep” rubbing their so-called friendly nations up the wrong way. I put it down to the fact that while they sit in their ivory towers in Washington, these “friends” are very slowly “slipping” away from what “was” a relatively good relationship. But that’s all changed now, and the realization that the “bond” has been broken for some time. As I have said before, when EU nations start asking the US to remove their military bases from their countries, then only then will the jig be up.



  2. Guygrr on June 7, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    The whole East / West relations stinks to high heaven of a planned implosion of American society. I can’t accept that Washington’s policy makers are so unbelievably stupid and shortsighted. They’ve always played the long game, and anyone with half a brain can see our trajectory is not looking good these days, Yes these people have colossal egos, but they still adhere to realpolitik.



    • Roger on June 7, 2016 at 1:35 pm

      The Globalists operatives who infiltrated our controlling elected offices are playing the long game, the awakening military power house known as the USA must be broken up and their identity of liberty completely destroyed while we are scapegoated to take the blame for all the world’s ills. I never wanted go here but I suspect the religious radicals no one is allowed to criticize are trying implode all the great global powers so they can rise as the new and only global power.



      • Roger on June 9, 2016 at 7:42 am

        Comment now out of mod.



  3. basta on June 7, 2016 at 11:01 am

    Who’s the Evil Empire now?

    TPTB don’t care about any nation, including the US, let alone Spain, which the US has been pushing around since the days of the first false flag, the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.

    So truthfully, as they ramp up their Strangelovian WWIII with a demonized Russia (the only adults in the room, apparently), do you honestly think they care a fig about Spain or Europe?



  4. Robert Barricklow on June 7, 2016 at 10:33 am

    I don’t see Spain swallowing any TTIP pills or any other authoritarian propaganda. They have an entrenched counter-culture that is becoming more savvy to these media mechanisms of social engineering. In fact, I’d like to think this counter-culture to control is catching on like fire across the prairies of discontent.



    • Robert Barricklow on June 7, 2016 at 10:35 am

      European prairies…
      and becoming more globalized.



  5. marcos toledo on June 7, 2016 at 10:21 am

    You are assuming Joseph that the CSA is the master. To whom does the CSA really kowtow to I seriously doubt they’re the real masters here they really haven’t the brains to pull this off. So who are the hidden hands or puppet masters behind the curtains pulling the strings pushing the buttons.



  6. Lost on June 7, 2016 at 7:53 am

    “all of that gold would do so much for Spain in their current crisis and would”–seems like a reach.

    And gold has no inherent value.



    • Pellevoisin on June 7, 2016 at 1:56 pm

      One could view my comment as mere high octane speculation. But I stand by it.



      • Lost on June 7, 2016 at 3:21 pm

        Some party, Spain, here would have to have several trillion dollars in gold for it to make much of a difference.

        Gold is also easy to make out of mercury, and the Russians very likely know how to make it in quantity out of copper–it’s no great secret either, though getting the yield increased and time decreased would be a challenge.



  7. Pellevoisin on June 7, 2016 at 6:04 am

    Gold.

    Spain is at a point where all the political parties want the Spanish gold back from Russia. If Russia needs Spanish ports, their biggest chip is that they still hold all of the gold of Spain that was sent to the USSR as the Spanish Civil War concluded in Franco’s favour.

    All of that gold sitting in St. Petersburg or Moscow … no one is quite sure where the Spanish gold is stashed away … all of that gold would do so much for Spain in their current crisis and would take the Kingdom out from under the thumbs of London, Washington, and Berlin.



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