Trump's Alliance Overhaul: Europe's Worst Nightmare?
The Juicy and Shocking Realities of Trump’s National Security Strategy
Oh my goodness. This is video number four. That's how obsessed I am because I cannot get over what Donald Trump has put in his National Security Strategy (NSS) and it's getting juicier. If we thought already it wasn't juicy and shocking enough.
Confusing Attachments: Ireland, Britain, and the Sovereign State
He goes on to state that America is understandably sentimentally attached to the European continent and of course to Britain and Ireland.
Ireland is a member of the European Union. Northern Ireland is part of Britain. So this is kind of confusing. America is understandably sentimentally attached to the European continent and of course to Britain and Ireland.
The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to "restore their former greatness." Now, I'm sorry, but when I think of this, I don't know what he's referring to. Which country within the European Union is he referring to? I don't know. I don't know what he means by this. This is confusing. I am confused. But I know where he's going with it. And it's the idea of the sovereign nation state.
The Sovereign Nation Zinger: Immigration and NATO’s Future
He then says over the long term it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest certain NATO members will become majority non-European. Again here he's referencing immigration will overtake their nations. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world or their alliance with the United States in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter. I think that's a bit confusing.
Our broad policy for Europe should strategize—and this is a bit concerning:
Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability within Russia. Stability within Europe. That's loaded.
Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense without being dominated by any adversarial power.
There's the "sovereign nation" zinger again. Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense. Well, it's already taking the responsibility for its defense! Has everybody been ignoring Andrius Kubilius? Are they ignoring this man? He's only the VP and heading this entire defense initiative within the European Union that's going to catapult it—a defense union, all aspects of one. I don't get this. I really don't.
Cultivating Resistance: The War on European Federalism
Here's the next bullet: Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations. I think he's referring to the European movement, to the European project, to the European Federalists. And this is not happy because the Federalists dominate. They are a good number and now you're wanting to cultivate resistance to this group.
Opening European markets to US goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of US workers and businesses. That's not a bad one. That's a good one.
Building up the healthy nations of central, eastern, and southern Europe through commercial ties, weapon sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges. What's wrong in this statement here isn't the commercial ties or weapon sales but "building up the healthy nations" again as he's looking at the relationship as with individual nations.
Wow. This is only recognizing commercial ties, which you can't even do with individual nations because everything's done through the European Union. So, I'm not sure where he's going with this. Weapon sales, I guess, to the individual governments as they acquire, but I'm not sure. And it's actually a good topic for a future video: how will weapon sales under Kubilius's plan be acquired in the individual nations?
The End of NATO Relevance?
Next, he states: Ending the perception and presenting the reality of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance. I think he's correct here, but he's not correct for the reason he thinks. He's correct because Europe is already building its own, fleshing out the finale, putting final strokes and touches and dollar amounts into timeframes to building its own military.
The question is already being asked: what are the nations going to rely on? Article 5 of NATO or Article 42 of the treaties? Basically, the European Union has a similar clause that an attack against one is an attack against all. While Europe says they want NATO and they're a part of NATO, it's apparent that the European Union is building its own military. Even as early as the 1990s when the Berlin Wall fell, NATO was already projected to be irrelevant. The Europhiles at that time wanted their own military on their continent. They didn't want to rely on the United States.
Conclusion: The Blindness of the Empire Order
It's become apparent that the European Union is totally unrecognized by US President Donald Trump. He's recognizing an outdated structure, an outdated ideology of the nation states. When we've moved beyond the nation states into the empire order, the multipolar order. In Donald Trump's first administration, Steve Bannon thought he could take down the European Union. Also, UKIP's Nigel Farage was very influential. Trump's view is that view. But it's not accurate.
Let's talk about biblical prophecy again. Whether you look at Revelation 18 or the King of Tyre, which is this final empire, it's a reference to this final evil leader that's going to be the Antichrist. You see that the empire is synonymous with trade. Babylon was synonymous with trade. And that is being fulfilled right now to the letter of the prophetic forecast: that this final power, this final empire, is synonymous with trade.
Christine Lagarde has stated that after a few more trade packs, it won't matter where their conflicts come from, even from the United States. They have a hedged economy. It's unprecedented. One of them, Mercosur with Central and South America, actually replaces the amount of trade with the United States. That one was just concluded recently.
The US administration and the State Department are ill-advising the president. For some reason, there is this veil, this blindness over how this empire already is there. It's already strong. The United States should be dealing with Europe as an equal and how to work things out as an equal. Not seeing where it really is can hurt the United States in the future.