The American espionage against the EU and Germany
and other countries in Europe disclosed by Der Spiegel and The
Guardian if confirmed shows more things.
American arrogance and contempt for friendly
nations.
Even though this contempt could be regarded as
partially justified when looking at European indecisiveness and bureaucracy, it is nevertheless a sign of
deteriorating quality and falling levels
in international politics.
Between major friendly players such arrogance is unseen and also points to:
The end fight for world hegemony is approaching.
This fact makes the involved countries use methods, which if not involving
direct warfare outside the 3. World, still gets more and more uncivilized as
already seen in the American fight against terrorism and the Internet war
between the United States and China .
Widespread electronic espionage is just a natural
part of this.
The only surprising fact is that apparently the
Americans regard the EU and European countries as very important competitors on
the World scene keeping the weakness of Europe in mind!
Germany appears to be very closely followed by the
NSA. As earlier stated Germany can be seen as the best governed and most politically
mature state in the old modern world. If as the Germans would like, this
quality of governing would get spread over the whole of the EU, then surely
this Union would become a formidable power politically and economically. This
could explain the keen American interest in spying on Germany.
But my dear Americans, I do not think you need to
worry! The other countries in the EU will rather continue their misgovernment
than submit to Germany.
As I have pointed out earlier, the world after more
than 2 centuries of brutal wars, civil wars and other external and internal
conflicts needs all this chaos to be
ended. Just as was the case in old Rome and old China in the years up to -30
and -221 respectively.
We are longing for our version of the Pax Romana
or Pax Sinica.
This should just be reached in the most humane and
democratic way possible. BUT even if these civilized conditions should be
supported, it is also a fact that a Pax has never been achieved through eternal
discussions and negotiations between countries each having the power to veto everything,
certainly not if these countries have no common idea of means and goals.
The United Nations and the European Union are doomed
to fail, if they are not reformed radically with very strong executives.
So who should bring Pax to our world? It must be a major
player like America, Europe, China or Russia. Russia may be too small. Europe
is too weak. China could be a possibility because of sheer size and economy.
But the Americans have something, which is not yet
as clearly to be seen in China. The will to power. This, the Americans
seem to have in large amounts as seen in amongst other things:
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Belief
in own values
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Contempt
for international rules and other countries
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Will
to dominate others
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Willingness
to use the means necessary
If we like this or not it certainly qualifies
America to win the competition for hegemony.
And thus to bring peace. We must only hope and work
for it that this peace is more of a benevolent type!
Even though the Europeans are right in being
outraged about the spying, they should also be honored by the importance with
which they apparently are regarded in Washington. I am not sure that the EU
really deserves so much attention.
The EU reaction will show if the union has muscles
enough to deserve the honor of being subject to massive US espionage!
