From bipolarity over unipolarity to nonpolarity

[Skybird]

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200805...tml?mode=print

Question is not if this new world order, that is so very different than Bush Senior's proclamation of a new world order at the end of the cold war, is liked by people or not. Question is how to make the best of it, if that is possible.

Europe still needs american military power more, than the other way around. The recent shifts of military outlooks in the Northatlantic will need European military to beef up and gain the ability to defend these ares and the european coasts all by itself.

and since the sign of the times appear to be so obvious to me, i am wondering why so few people and politicans in europe seem to be aware of that, and prefer to play on their usual hobbies and self-centered VIP-games.

As a German commentator put it: The cold war may be over - but russia is back nevertheless. I am wondering what idiot considered it to be a good idea to give up Keflavik aifield. But shortsightedness has been en vogue in Western and american policies of the past 15 years, haven't they.

[kurtz]

[quote}=Skybird]http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200805...tml?mode=print

Europe still needs american military power more, than the other way around. The recent shifts of military outlooks in the Northatlantic will need European military to beef up and gain the ability to defend these ares and the european coasts all by itself.

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Not so sure here as on American, in a different context put it,"Gentlemen we must all hang together or assuredly, we will all hang apart".

Edit: It was Benjamin Franklin said it