who is really threatening

Geographically (once again) Russia looks like it could be a major threat to Europe, looking at it on a map it would appear that the Russian bear would have a likely chance of crushing Europe, however the Soviet Union has long gone and today this couldn't be more further from the truth, NATO has no real reason to exist except to promote American military dominance around the world, political rhetoric calling Russia our friend rings hollow considering that NATO states seem to be closing in on all sides of the Russian border, as if it still contains the communist pandemic that needs to be prevented from spreading!



While NATO members have a bigger population and an all around much bigger military than Russia does Europe is as densely populated as the main concentration of the 142 millions Russians in Russia which are focused mainly in the west of the country.



Luckily the Ukraine and Georgia were prevented from joining NATO, as that would have really technically militarily encircled Russia, this would make Russia hesitant and (rightfully so) directly threatened.



Bottom Line: The actions of NATO and the EU are not within the bounds of realism, and invoke all sorts of fears in Russia. Some of these are justified and some are not. If the western blocs are not acting rationally in the context of history, the logical thing for the Russians to believe is that they are in danger.

fall of the union

With Ireland being the only one to vote in the Lisbon Referendum one has to wonder if giving more power to smaller numbers of people in centralizing the diverse 10,180,000 square kilometers that is Europe is really a smart idea.

Just 18 years ago the Soviet Union collapsed the former republics gaining their independence, the diversity of these countries and their people shows just how different they all really are:

Armenia



Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and historic cultural heritage.

After it split from the Soviet Union Armenia and Azerbaijan (see below), the war ended after a Russian-brokered cease-fire was put forward in 1994. The war was a success for the Armenians who managed to secure 14% of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory.

Azerbaijan



Azerbaijan is a nation with a majority Turkic and Shi‘ite Muslim population, is a secular and unitary republic. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was the first successful attempt to establish a democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world.

Belarus



It has been said that Belarus was the only dictatorship in Europe, governed by Lukashenko who is called by most people of Belarus as “Batka” - meaning father in English.

Estonia



Was one of the world's fastest growing economies for several years after becoming independent, very small population at only 1.4 million, it is said to be the most successful countries out of all of the former Soviet republics.

Georgia



Georgia is a representative democracy, organized as a secular, unitary semi-presidential republic, it had several skirmishes with the Ossetians which exasperated from Georgia forming a state called South Ossetia, a Georgian attack on there led to a devastating war in August of 2008.

Kazakhstan



Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world.

It is ethnically and culturally diverse, in part due to mass deportations of many ethnic groups to the country during Stalin's rule. Kazakhs are the largest group. Kazakhstan allows freedom of religion, and many different beliefs are represented in the country. Islam is the primary religion. The Kazakh language is the state language, while Russian is also officially used as an "equal" language (to Kazakh) in Kazakhstan's institutions

Kyrgyzstan



Kyrgyzstan is a land locked in Southeast Asia, it is made up mainly of Kyrgyz's, Uzbek's and Russians.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union state-owned enterprises have been privatized, it has come under influence from the west and has seen a considerable amount of terrorism.

Latvia



Latvia is a unitary parliamentary republic and is divided into 26 districts. It's population is made up mostly of Russians and Latvians.

Today it is one of the poorest countries in the European Union and its people are among the unhappiest in the world!

Lithuania



The majority of the country are Lithuanians with only a small concentrated amount of Polish, the predominant religion there is Roman Catholicism.

Moldova



A small and practically unknown country to most Europeans, is a parliamentary democracy and has a very large wine industry.

Russia



Russia is the largest country in the world and takes up an eighth of Earth's surface, and has a population of 142 million people, following the breakup of the Soviet Union Russia's economy went to hell in the early 1990's after taking all of the debts the Soviet Union owed, it fought in two wars against Chechnya and in the last few years is rising back towards super power status.

Tajikistan



Most people that live in Tajikistan belong to the Tajik ethnic group, who share culture and history with the Iranian peoples and speak Persian.

Following it's independence from the Soviet Union it had a devastating civil war from 1992 to 1997, afterwords newly-established political stability and foreign aid have allowed the country's economy to grow. Trade in commodities such as cotton and aluminum wire has contributed greatly to this steady improvement.

Tajikistan is still however a very poor country!

Turkmenistan



Cotton production is big in Turkmenistan as was the President Turkmen-Bashi a dictator who controlled most aspects of his peoples lives up until 2007.

Ukraine



Ukraine is home to 46.2 million people, 77.8 percent of whom are ethnic Ukrainians, with sizable minorities of Russians, Belarusians and Romanians. The Ukrainian language is the only official language in Ukraine, while Russian is also widely spoken. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which has heavily influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature and music.

They have changed their political orientation recently from East to West, but nothing has really changed!

Uzbekistan



Uzbekistan is made up nearly entirely of Uzbek's and has an economy based on commodity items like cotton, gold, uranium, and natural gas.


It's an interesting comparison, I was going to do one on Europe but the truth is Europe is nearly just as vast (even though it's much smaller) as the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were, and only time will tell how history will treat the European Union.

Happy Victory Day

Yesterday marked Victory Day in Russia which celebrated the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany on May the 9th 1945.

The very same day that the Europe Union celebrates its unity, isn't that a little coincident that Europe celebrates its victory the same time Europe was blown back the stone age by the British and the Soviets (Nazi occupied Europe that is).

President Medvedev took this opportunity (Russia showing off its military might that is) to hint at Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili not to go on any military adventures, probably hinting at the August War in South Ossetia when Georgian forces begun to slaughter Ossetians.

But the thing is while the west keeps saying its best friends with Russia the truth is that Europe and America still continue to treat Russia as a potential enemy, for instance placing someone pro US like Saakashvili is asking for trouble, and worse still having it join NATO, along with the recent joining of Ukraine.

Former satellite states of the Soviet Union joining NATO that continue to encircle Russia, why does NATO still even have to exist?

Plus Russia has a much better right to celebrate since on this day was when they came out victorious after their land was attacked, destroyed and over 20,000,000 of them murdered in cold blood, yet we still cannot assure this won't happen again!

Obamas 'change' is the new New World Order

Barrack Obama seems to be pushing forward to what he calls the New World Order, now I'm not going on about the conspiracy theory to slaughter 90% of the worlds population, no I'm talking about America in the unipolar world and the unification of the world as one!

A plan like this was put together in 1942, a post war New World Order map had been planned for after the defeat of the axis powers in World War II, (see below).




Notice that most ethnic groups are separated by unions or republics or even religion and there's even an early plan for the state of Israel (see Hebrew Land) shown.

Also note that Argentina gets the Falkland Islands and Ireland gets the North back, America is bound under the North America Union which is interesting because that seems to be what is happening today.



So the European Union and the soon to be North America Union, maybe Obama will start the slow process of unionizing parts of the world and the eventuality of the dozen or so unions becoming the one, a one world government!

EU vs USA

As a European I have to say I found this rather interesting!