The European Union, a big wrongdoer who is inexhaustible.
On July 26, 1956, egypt's Nasser government announced that it would nationalize the Suez Canal and that the proceeds from the canal tolls would raise funds for the construction of the Aswan Dam.
A very important reason why Nasser "desperately took risks" under tremendous pressure was that in retaliation for Egypt's establishment of diplomatic relations with New China, the United States, together with Britain, stopped lending and technical support to the Aswan Dam.
Nasser's operations soon made Britain, France and other countries furious, and they sternly threatened Egypt, which "does not talk about martial virtue", not to "go too far", while Egypt, with the support of the Soviet Union, took a tough attitude and resolutely did not treat Britain and France as a root.
Seeing that the soft could not work, Britain and France were determined to "subdue people with virtue" and persuaded Israel to act as cannon fodder to take the lead. Israel then took the lead in attacking Egypt on 29 October, while the Anglo-French forces followed quickly on 31 October.
Under the fierce attack of the three countries, the Egyptian army was gradually defeated, but Egypt's sworn resistance soon won the deep sympathy of the vast number of Third World countries, and the invading armies of the three countries won the battle and lost the moral initiative.
What is even more embarrassing is that the United States, which was originally an ally of Britain and France, not only did not insert a knife for Britain and France at this moment, but inserted two knives in Britain and France. In the case that Britain, France and The three countries were pointed out by the international community, the United States instead talked with the Soviet Union very happily, and joined hands to persuade and educate Britain and France on "nuclear benevolence", which finally made the three countries "moved" to tears and rolled away, and the Suez Canal crisis came to an end.
The end of the Suez Canal crisis not only meant that Egypt consolidated the fruits of victory in recovering the Suez Canal, but also meant the complete end of the era of British and French colonial empires. Although the two countries were beaten back to their original form long after World War II, the Suez Canal allowed them to lose even the last bottoms.
After the crisis, the disheartened Britain and France made the opposite choice, and although Britain was shamefully "betrayed" by the United States, it still unswervingly fell under the jeans of the United States, completing the dramatic transformation from "American great-grandfather" to "American great-grandson". After being rejected by Britain for two consecutive times to "unite", France strengthened its determination to reconcile with its old enemy, the Federal Republic of Germany, and promoted the continuous advancement of Western European integration, which eventually contributed to the birth of the European Community and even the European Union.
But the problem is that while France insisted on going against the United States after the Suez Canal crisis, even the military integration apparatus that withdrew from NATO during de Gaulle's time strongly marked its determination to stand on its own. But instead of drawing a clear line, the United States and the European Union have gotten closer and closer, and the ties have become tighter and tighter. Especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the relationship between the European Union and the United States was even "back-to-back vest".
So, knowing that the EU has been tossing and turning for decades to rely on itself, why is it more passive the harder it works? Is this a distortion of human nature or a moral degeneration? The fundamental reason for the history of quiet night is that the European Union has been a painstaking work of the United States from the beginning, in addition to serving as a buffer against the Soviet Union and Russia, the EU is also a "Fan Shengmei" that the United States can squeeze oil and water at any time and a "punching bag" for entertainment at any time.
After all, European integration could not escape the palm of the United States from the outset.
Who would have thought that western Europe was bent on breaking free from the "group warmth" method of breaking free from the control of the United States, and the United States that was targeted was the earliest initiator.
It is said that after the end of World War II, the land of Western Europe, as the main battlefield, was devastated and ruined. The United States, on the other hand, relied on its geographical superiority to gain full power and became the bellwether and engine of the capitalist camp after the war.
Although the Soviet Union was greatly injured in the Soviet-German war, relying on the tenacity of the Soviet people and the strong vitality of the Stalin model, it eventually promoted the Soviet Union to win the Soviet-German war and become a superpower on a par with the United States.
In order to avoid Western Europe being attacked by the Soviet Union like Eastern Europe, to strike at the proletarian forces in Western Europe, and to absorb the excess capacity generated by the "explosion" of productive forces during the war, the United States introduced the "Marshall Plan" in 1947 and began a huge economic relief.
After excluding Eastern European countries through various harsh conditions, in order to avoid being dug up by the Soviet Union, the United States asked Western European countries to "package" and accept the US knife.
Therefore, after the countries of Western Europe accepted the economic support of the United States and successfully became the back garden of the American economy, and then decided to get rid of the control of the United States and avoid being completely marginalized by the United States and the Soviet Union, they found that their efforts were completely a second repetition of the operation of the United States.
This special journey to the same destination has made the United States happy, and the countries of Western Europe have lost all face because of this "two-way rush". After all, the whole process of every move is controlled by the United States, and the next step is also expected by the United States, so the Western European countries are still playing a hammer of self-reliance?
But the problem is that once the big fish of the European Union is hooked by the United States, it is not difficult to break free, but it is a fantasy.
During the Cold War, in order to counter the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, the United States basically adopted a resigned attitude towards the integration of Western Europe.
And looking at the wall is the greatest support. After a series of games, even the United Kingdom, the family of the United States, eventually became a member of the European Community, and the scale and extent of Western European integration continued to increase.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the socialist camp dissipated, and the European Community once again came to a crossroads in history.
For the European Union, although it has experienced the violent impact of the two world wars, it still wears the skin of a developed country, maintains a condescending "scissor difference" advantage for the vast number of third world countries, and relies on the monopoly of technology to seize the rich and profitable. But after all, the loss of the vast overseas colonies on which they depended for survival, although they can still obtain a steady stream of labor and product dumping places, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain resources, especially oil and gas, although the former colonies are still there, but other forces have long penetrated into the holes, they are no longer the only ones to seize and plunder.
Therefore, if we can take advantage of the power vacuum created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, Western Europe will inevitably be able to obtain a large market for dumping commodities and raw materials, and the strength of the EU will inevitably escalate again. Germany, as the head of the European Union, is convinced of this.
But the problem is that although Eastern Europe, as a satellite country or even a member of the former Soviet Union, has successively chosen to change its flag and change its banner before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has no relationship with the past, after all, there have been many not-so-"beautiful" historical memories, and it is really difficult to turn them into brothers and brothers with Western European countries.
Coupled with the fact that the economic development level of Eastern European countries is generally not as rich as that of Western Europe, the forcible binding of Eastern and Western Europe in the "EASTward Expansion of the European Union" will inevitably lead to strong internal problems.
In fact, the CRISIS of the EU has also been exposed after the "blind" eastward expansion.
In stark contrast to the side effects of the "EU's eastward expansion", the "NATO eastward expansion" has achieved impressive results.
Although the EU and NATO member states are highly overlapping, the performance and encounters of NATO and the EU are also very different due to the different initiators and their nature.
Because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Western countries had great hostility towards Russia, the direct successor of the Soviet Union, and instead of accepting Russia's way to the west, they were embarrassed everywhere, and they struck from time to time, forcing Russia to pick up its weapons again and fight back.
Under such circumstances, the countries of Eastern Europe once again became a buffer against Russia's confrontation with the West. Out of historical hatred of Russia, coupled with the desire not to repeat the end of the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony, they have raised eyebrows with NATO politically, eager to arouse NATO's desire for protection.
Therefore, in the face of the "eastward expansion" of NATO and the European Union, Eastern European countries have gradually formed a pattern of "relying on NATO politically and relying on the EU economically", although "the economic base determines the superstructure", but before "common prosperity", their primary consideration is how to survive.
Therefore, after the "EASTWARD EXPANSION OF the EU", it is not only necessary to face the embarrassment of internal east-west imbalances, but also to deal with the embarrassing end of external NATO and eu going hand in hand on the road to the east.
It can be said that under the pressure of Russia, the EU can get the "people" of Eastern European countries, but can not get their "hearts", and they are under the influence of NATO, that is, the United States, theoretically, they will inevitably jump up and down, making the EU tired and dying.
There is always a gap between theory and reality, that is, the dilemma faced by the EU in reality is more suffocating than in theory.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fundamental reason why NATO, as a product of the Cold War, did not go with the wind is that NATO, in addition to targeting the Soviet Union and socialism, is also a weapon to blackmail the EU. Therefore, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO not only did not die of old age, but was alive and well, with extraordinary energy.
As in the Cold War period, because both Western Europe and Eastern Europe were the positions of the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony, and these areas were the eu's own reserves, although the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disintegrated, the EU still could not escape the embarrassing end of being ravaged back and forth.
Because the threat to the Eastward Enlarged Eu comes not only from traditional Russia and the United States, which single-handedly planned European integration, but also from the United States and Russia to join forces to make a game. Therefore, the undercurrent is the main theme of the EU, and exhaustion is the greatest significance of the EU. Under such circumstances, even if Eastern Europe is "reinstated", with a larger market and a more abundant labor force, the EU will still not be able to truly stand on its own, especially the establishment of an independent energy system.
Therefore, in order to avoid being frozen into a teddy in the winter, the EU can only choose between the United States and Russia, and finally the EU chose Russia's oil and gas, and in order to strengthen energy cooperation, the two sides have successively built natural gas pipelines "Nord Stream" and "Turkey Creek".
All this is seen by the United States, so the United States is very angry, after all, dependence is the easiest to produce emotional relations, today the European Union imported Russian natural gas, will he unite with Russia to let the United States roll aside?
Whenever I think of this, the United States is anxious like an ant on a hot pot, so the United States fully launches NATO's long-arm jurisdiction and gives the EU a fierce blow, in addition to pulling the EU to sing ideological songs, insensitive the EU to go forward for the so-called democracy and freedom, the United States also set off the Kosovo War, promoted the Crimean crisis, induced the Russian-Ukrainian war, etc., the purpose is to separate the relationship between the EU and Russia.
Then, under the persuasion of the United States, the European Union successively stopped the "Nord Stream II" pipeline and launched an unprecedented sanctions strike against Russia.
Then, Russia had no choice but to lose its breath and quickly made the EU almost out of breath. The EU's "killing 1,000 enemies and losing 12,000 self-inflicted wounds" is very much in line with the wishes of the United States.
So in the case of Russia's lack of gas, will the United States help the EU to love? Of course, almost immediately, the United States chose to import oil from Russia on a large scale, determined to let Russia support itself.
This double-standard operation sounds too unjustified, but it is the most unswerving truth of the United States.
Since the Cold War, although the United States and the Soviet Union have been the old enemies of ideology, the confrontation between the two sides has extended from the underground to space, and the footprints have spread to every inch of the ocean and land. However, in the gap between the fierce struggles, the United States and the Soviet Union also joined hands to maintain their monopoly power, in addition to joining hands to fight the old colonialism such as Britain and France in the Suez Canal crisis, the two countries also promoted the signing of the so-called nuclear non-proliferation treaty, blocking the latecomers to challenge the existing order.
The cooperation between the two countries in the field of space exploration is even more incredible, and this situation of confrontation and cooperation was immediately transferred from the United States and the Soviet Union to the United States and Russia after the end of the Cold War.
So before the Effective Date of the Biden administration sanctions on April 22, the United States stepped up imports of discounted Oil from Russia, an increase of 43% year-on-year.
As an extremely pragmatic country, the United States does not mind looking at Russia in order to maximize its interests. But as the younger brother of the United States, the European Union must continue to fight russia to the end, and the quasi-ally India is not allowed to rob its own business.
The EU has never suffered such grievances, because this kind of initiative to die in an attempt to make the enemy feel guilty, really can not find more positive significance, the EU in the end, not only lost the opportunity to improve relations with Russia, but also relied on firewood to warm back to the Middle Ages, but also became a famous laughingstock of the international community and notoriety.
And this is also the ultimate goal of the United States, since the Cold War, the United States has multiple hopes for the European Union, in addition to being a beachhead against socialism, but also to become the cow and tool of the United States at any time, for which the United States must firmly hold the European Union in its hands, energy is undoubtedly a good thing.
In order to survive the crisis, the EU seems to be able to buy second-hand natural gas at a high price under the coercion of the United States, and let the middleman the United States make a large profit in vain.
But what good way does the EU have? After all, since the establishment of the European Union, and even before the establishment of the European Union, the influence of the United States has reached its peak. In the case of the U.S. influence everywhere, the EU simply does not have the ability to control its own destiny, and can only constantly lose itself in the harm of others and harm itself, and the EU, which has long been infiltrated into a sieve by the United States, will inevitably draw an embarrassing ending from the government to non-governmental NGOs to jointly depict an embarrassing ending of being willing to be cannon fodder for the sake of anti-Russia.
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I am The History of Quiet Night and look forward to your attention.