Sombere Amerikaanse visie op Europa

Wordt Europa ten opzichte van Amerika wat de Centraalaziatische republieken (landen als Kazachstan, Oezbekistan, Tadzjikistan) zijn ten opzichte van Rusland? Pijnlijke analyse van Richard Haass (voorzitter van de Council on Foreign Relations van de Amerikaanse regering; volgens Spengler "no personage stands closer [than he] to the center of the American foreign policy establishment") in de Financial Times (je moet je even gratis registreren op de website en dan kun je het stuk lezen). De laatste alinea:

The combination of structural economic flaws, political parochialism and military limits will accelerate this transatlantic drift. A weaker Europe will possess a smaller voice and role. Nato will no longer be the default partner for American foreign policy. Instead, the US will forge coalitions of the willing to deal with specific challenges. These clusters will sometimes include European countries, but rarely, if ever, will the US look to either Nato or the EU as a whole. Even before it began, Europe’s moment as a major world power in the 21st century looks to be over.