“Along with NATO’s expansion, the EU’s enlargement further unites the new and the established democracies of Europe, and helps create a Europe whole, free, and at peace” President George W. Bush, 1st May 2004
“As everyone is well aware, in a few days our State will cease to exist as an independent sovereign entity. . .” Czech President Vaclav Klaus, 22 April 2004
There can be few more embarrassing sights in politics than to see an American president claiming to “understand” Europe. Even in two world wars when everything that the British and Americans stood for was under the gravest threat it took three years of war for the American political establishment to 1. Stop supporting their enemies and 2. Start defeating them.
In the 1990s the situation became even more tragic as the US – at the instigation of Germany and the European Union – turned its back on their traditional allies in Serbia and joined Muslim bigotry in Albania and fascist bigotry in Croatia in the destruction of Yugoslavia. Having reacted in haste they are now beginning to repent at leisure. Now it beggars belief that the USA, through NATO should aid the democracy-destroying European Union in its expansion to the East, thus wiping out those very democratic nations to which NATO’s defeat of Soviet communism had so recently given birth.
The US administrations of Bush Senior, Clinton and Bush Junior have all praised the destruction of the free nations of Europe for whose liberation from communism and fascism their own soldiers fought and died. On the accession of 10 new member states of the European Union on 1st May 2004 President George W. Bush hailed the enlargement of the EU and called for three other countries to be admitted.
In a statement released by the White House, Mr Bush said, “I applaud the action by the European Union (EU) to welcome into their membership ten new countries from Central Europe and the Mediterranean. This enlargement will bring opportunity and hope to millions of Europeans”. “Along with NATO’s expansion, the EU’s enlargement further unites the new and the established democracies of Europe, and helps create a Europe whole, free, and at peace. We welcome the prospect of further enlargement of the EU to qualified countries, including Romania and Bulgaria, and we support Turkey’s European Union aspirations”. As in Palestine and (to a smaller extent) in Iraq America’s failure to understand local history and present politics leads it to support policies which are totally alien to the idealistic founders of its own constitution. Indeed even the reasons why two world wars were fought and won by the USA and her allies seem to have been totally forgotten. Of course these countries whose take over by the European Union Bush praises have not voluntarily given up their sovereignty, democracy and parliaments – they were forced to do so in order to travel, invest and trade freely with their European neighbours. The choice was democracy and sovereignty or prosperity and trade! They could not have both.
There were of course many American supporters of Hitler when France, Italy and Germany achieved a similar “united Europe” in the 1940s. Those countries fascist leaders formed the so called “Continental System” which was proud to attack “Anglo-Saxon democracy”. Leading US corporations like General Motors, Ford and US Banks were either great admirers of Hitler or were considerable contributors to the German war effort. Indeed at one point the US Ambassador to Berlin warned the US State Department that General Motors was a “war danger”. And of course it was the father of President John F. Kennedy (who pushed the UK into the European Union in the 1960s) Joseph Kennedy who was such a sympathiser of the Hitler regime in the 1930s.
When will the US political Establishment learn that the European Union is NOT an association of free nations. It is NOT designed to enhance the prosperity of its members. It is NOT designed to spread democracy. It is NOT an ally of the United States (surely Iraq demonstrated that).
The European Union is a Superstate with a flag, a national anthem, a Supreme Court, an embryo army, a “Parliament” which has little power and a centralised supreme bureaucracy (controlled by the Franco-German axis) which decides virtually everything. It has a currency which is disastrous for its peoples but is seen by the euro-political elite as a rival to the US Dollar (perhaps that is why it is admired by Cuba’s Castro!) and a means of economic and constitutional conquest. In China, in Russia, in the Caucusus, in Europe, in South America and in the Balkans the EU seeks to expand its influence and rival, not cooperate with the USA. Even in space and satellite communication rivalry not alliance is the main aim of the German French Euro-elite. Whether using State subsidies and State airlines to promote Airbus at the expense of Boeing or using the Franco German Arms industry (EADS) to outsell the USA, the aim is clear – international power politics.
Britain, America’s long term and most reliable ally, has lost its parliament (800 years old) its constitution, its agricultural and fishing rights, its territorial waters and will doubtless also soon lose its North Sea oil and gas. The wisdom of its common law and the power of its courts, the sovereignty of its people and the democratic rights of its parliament are all being superseded by the rule of the new Leviathan based apparently in Brussels but in fact along the Paris Berlin Axis. No one could imagine the US political class succumbing to a “North American Union” in which most of the political military and strategic decisions were made in Ottawa and Mexico City and in which regulatory decisions affecting the whole of US business was made by an un-elected bureaucracy in Honduras and a Supreme Court overruled the US Courts from, say, Cuba?
And yet here we have an American president praising the expansion of the European Super-State and its absorption of the new democracies of countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary which suffered so cruelly under Soviet Communism and the European Fascism which preceded it.
America has few friends in the world today. It has surely now lost even those that remained. It is a sad day for the Transatlantic friends of Democracy and Nationhood.
