Geopolitical Review 2007
December 31, 2007 | From theTrumpet.com
Reviewing the most significant geopolitical events of the past year, greatly abbreviated by IslamaNazi. For the full text, click on the link above. Various emphases are mine.

The World Comes Within a Hair’s Breadth of World War III

On September 6, 2007, an Israeli f-151 fighter struck a Syrian military installation in Dayr az Zawr. Great secrecy was maintained to prevent the eruption of full-blown war and the Highly secret surgical strike was successful.

Why all the secrecy? Facts indicate that Syria was building a secret nuclear facility, which Israel destroyed to prevent the world’s second-biggest state sponsor of terrorism from becoming a nuclear power. “The Middle East is rapidly becoming more volatile, and everybody knows it. We are frighteningly close to World War iii.”

World conditions in general are approaching World War III…

Europe Is a growing, dangerous empire.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso stated on June 10 that Europe had “the dimension of empire.”

The EU continued its eastward expansion with Bulgaria joining the Union on the first day of 2007. It cemented its eastern half more firmly on December 21 by expanding the Schengen area into nine new countries in Eastern Europe. The expansion diminished the importance of borders by suspending the need for passports and border checkpoints.

An empire requires not only unified territory but also a unified governing body. Enter the Lisbon Treaty, signed on December 13 and awaiting ratification. As the successor to the failed EU constitution, it should revolutionize the EU, establishing an elected EU president and an EU foreign policy representative, and simplifying the EU legislative process to a majority vote system. “It is the treaty of an enlarged Europe from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. A Europe that shares common values and common ambitions.”

The EU is swiftly becoming a unified empire—and a decidedly undemocratic one. European leaders are circumventing the people to push through the Lisbon Treaty as the new unofficial constitution. The French and British heads of state have ignored calls for national referenda on the treaty, and the Portuguese ignored mass demonstrations against it outside of Lisbon, as did the press—to the point where the average European hardly knows anything about the treaty. As the Trumpet’s Ron Fraser wrote, “The term ‘democracy,’ to the bureaucrats of Brussels, simply has the same meaning as it has in Moscow or Beijing. The European Union is the new tyrant of the Continent.”

That tyrant is intent on conquering the Balkans and absorbing it into the EU. Germany has postured Europe into a unified stance over Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Serbia is opposed to Kosovo’s independence and is desperately trying to prevent what it sees as German expansionism in the Balkans. Kosovo is ready to declare unilateral independence from Serbia at any time, and the European Union is set to take over the Balkans peacekeeping mission from the United Nations. The European empire is conquering Kosovo, Serbia, and the rest of the Balkans.

When Britain Leaves Europe …

Europe’s rise to power is about to accelerate as the European Union hurdles a major obstacle on the path to unification: Britain.

Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown, who only took over for Tony Blair in June, had a stressful year as EU bureaucrats criticized him for holding up the Lisbon Treaty and as British citizens criticized him for signing away Britain’s sovereignty. Brown helped draft the Lisbon Treaty and signed it on December 13, despite calls for a national referendum.

Britain is interested in the economic benefits of the European Union, but a large portion of its population rightly sees the EU as a threat to British sovereignty. Polls show up to 70 percent of the population wanting a national referendum on the Lisbon Treaty before Parliament ratifies it. Brown has done everything he can to prevent that eventuality, because he knows that the British public is likely to shoot the treaty down. As it is, Britain still held the Lisbon Treaty back by inserting a number of British opt-outs into its text.

From the beginning, Britain has held back European unification, and now many Brits are questioning whether they should be in the Union at all. Watch for Britain to leave or be forced out of the EU and for the EU to unite faster as a result.

Europe Bows to the Vatican

Europe is returning to its religious roots—Roman Catholicism. This year saw both the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches make strides toward union with the Vatican. The Traditional Anglican Communion issued a petition to the Vatican this fall requesting that approximately 400,000 Anglicans be admitted into the Catholic Church. The number of Catholics in Britain that attend weekly mass now surpasses the number of Anglicans that go to church each Sunday. Leaders in both the Anglican and Catholic churches have agreed to seek ways to bring the Anglicans back under the leadership of the pope. (The Anglican Church is the Church of England, split off by King Henry VIII over a spat with the Pope. It has always been essentially Catholic.)

Even as the Anglican Church moves back into the Catholic fold, Pope Benedict xvi is working toward Catholic reconciliation with the Eastern Orthodox churches. In a Catholic-Orthodox reconciliation meeting on October 13, a joint statement was signed by Catholic and Eastern Orthodox leaders (except for the Moscow representatives) recognizing the pope’s primacy over the Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, including those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.

On February 19, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi met with some of the pope’s senior advisers in a closed-door session. Pope Benedict severely criticized Prodi for trying to push through legislation in Italy that would recognize civil unions between homosexuals. Prodi resigned within two days. Two days later, Prodi had repented of his political error and retained the Italian premiership.

The event proved that Prodi has bowed to Rome. Soon all Europe will do the same.

Stoiber’s War Against the Bureaucrats

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso appointed Edmund Stoiber this September to chair a committee to advise the Union on how it can reduce bureaucracy. He is famed for working miraculous improvement in Bavarian legislation.

Stoiber has indicated that strong action must be taken to preserve the religious culture of Europe. During his farewell speech as Bavarian premier in late September, Stoiber criticized the increasing number of Islamic mosques in Europe. “When the mosques in our cities are bigger than cathedrals and churches, then we must tell our Muslim fellow citizens: ‘No, that is going too far,’” he said.

Resurrection of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Throughout history, Europe has repeatedly formed pacts with Russia to secure its western border. With Europe and Russia both again on the rise, tensions between Moscow and Brussels are mounting. Russian President Vladimir Putin manipulated Russia’s December 2 parliamentary elections to flood the Russian government with supporters. He then appointed the loyal Dmitry Medvedev as his preferred presidential successor as he contemplates how he wishes to rule Russia after next year’s presidential election. Russia has all but returned to authoritarian tsarist rule under Putin.

In December, Putin suspended the treaty that limits the number of Russian troops on the European border; he also deployed the Russian Navy back into Mediterranean waters for the first time since the Soviet era. All these strong-arm maneuvers are causing considerable concern in Europe.

Meanwhile, Europe and Russia remain in a standoff over Kosovo. Kosovo has said it will declare unilateral independence from Serbia early next year. Germany’s ambitions in the Balkans dictated the EU’s stance on the issue: Europe will support Kosovo. Russia will support Serbia. Neither side is ready to back down. This leaves two possibilities for the EU and Russia: war or pact.

Tensions over Russian energy imports into Europe; European fear of Russian troops on the EU’s southern and eastern borders; conflict over spheres of influence in Ukraine; the showdown over Kosovo—all of these portend a resurrected Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. With the Russian bear so active on the east side, Europe must secure a pact with Moscow before it can further pursue its many other ambitions.

Several German leaders are already laying the groundwork for such a treaty. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder works for Russian oil-giant Gazprom; Germany’s Russophile vice chancellor, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, met with Dmitry Medvedev after his nomination; and Edmund Stoiber visited Vladimir Putin in July. Stoiber has called for an EU-Russian free-trade zone and openly endorsed Russian opposition to the United States’ proposed military defense shield in Europe. He and others recognize that the EU needs to form a “strategic partnership” with Russia. Watch for this pact to solidify as both the EU and Russia continue to gain global power.

The Rise of Asia’s Military

The Indian external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee, has stated the nations of Asia need to cooperate in order to “make this century the century of Asia.” Asia has been migrating toward economic unity for years, but this year also saw the rise of military cooperation.

On August 7, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (sco) conducted the largest military exercise in its six-year history. Thousands of troops from Russia, China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan met in Russia’s Volga-Urals military district to conduct anti-terrorism exercises. Many saw this exercise as the sco’s attempt to challenge nato as a regional power bloc.

On December 20, troops from India and China conducted their first-ever joint military exercises. India and China have been historic rivals, and this martial cooperation was this year’s greatest visible sign of their warming relations. Their armies are the two largest on Earth. Cooperation among the Russian, Indian and Chinese militaries would make Asia one of the world’s most powerful military alliances.

My summation:

Nations are re-aligning into a global Triumvirate. Russia and the East are joining together as a military force. This is why Putin has been so upset about our wanting to put anti-missile systems in Poland and Chechoslovakia, as he wants to force those nations back into the new alliance as enemies of the U.S. instead of friends.

In the meantime, we in the United States have been trying to keep the OPEC nations on our side to assure us of vital oil supplies, even as those Islamic nations become steadily more radicalized. That tide is turning against us and we’ll start seeing Mid-East oil go elsewhere about the same time terror attacks resume in the U.S. and Canada.

Israel is in for it. Expect a major attack with WMDs.

Much of Europe aligned with Germany during WWII and Germany is once again dominating the scene as the E.U. gains strength. Very likely only Britain will be our ally in the coming conflict.

The European attitude against Islam is growing within its leadership and will really solidify once an energy pact is made with Russia, which has vast reserves of petroleum, freeing Europe from Mid-East oil dependency even as Russia itself continues to corner a larger future share of that market with “arrangements” with Iran.

Nearly all of Europe and virtually the rest of the world beyond North – and most of South – America is uniting against our part of the planet. Either the world will soon be plunged into a true Armageddon before long or we’ll be beaten down and conquered economically.

As for Islam and its jihad, virtually all nations other than Islamic ones are engaged in a war on terror right now. Considering the muslims own massive dysfunctionality, they’ve bitten off more than they can chew and will ultimately lose. In any case, a global war would reduce the Islamic nations to rag-tag ruins.

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