Last Friday saw the most powerful and effective representation of what geopolitics is that I have ever witnessed. Incredibly, the show was seen by the whole world live. What usually happens behind the scenes — even in crudest and most violent forms — was staged on camera. Viewers were thus able to see for themselves how brutal, cynical, hypocritical, petty, violent, and turncoat geopolitics is. It is a condensation of the worst traits of our species. So far, nothing new, except precisely the fact that all this was broadcast worldwide.
That said, from a strategic point of view, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for European countries belonging to the American area of influence to stretch a bit the leash that has kept them tied to the U.S. since World War II. For the first time in 80 years, through the mouths of current representatives of the administration in office, the American apparatuses are telling us Europeans that we can move with relative freedom in containing, on their behalf, Russia on our continent. This means that, militarily, we can go where we were not allowed to venture before. Of course, whatever we decide to do, regardless of whether countries go it alone or by concerted joint moves, everything will have to be coordinated and agreed upon with Uncle Sam. Nonetheless, this is an unprecedented historical step. Countries that have retained a true strategic vision will be able to take advantage of this situation to maximize their national interests.
This unheard-of scenario is one of the by-products of the convergence of strategic interests — namely, Russia’s detachment from China — that has emerged at this historical moment between the Russian and the Star-Spangled empires. As mentioned just above, a geopolitical superpower is not embarrassed to save the ass of one of its arch-enemies if that is what it takes to pursue its strategic goals. By the way, it would be the second time in less than a century.
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