Does the EU Stabilise or Destabilise its Neighbourhood?
Lasha Kasradze with Glenn Diesen
The EU was renowned for its gravitational pull in the 1990s and 2000s. European countries desired membership in this important economic club. Being on the inside ensured collective bargaining power while being on the outside placed countries in a weak position. The EU could set political reforms as a condition for membership, which was meant to contribute to creating a community of prosperous and well-governed democracies. Reduced economic competitiveness, excessive dependence and the geopolitics of a redivided Europe unravelled the EU model. What is happening along the EU periphery?
Empires must grow by acquisition because their rulers lack the patience or other moral characteristics necessary to foster or wait for organic growth. Every Empire grows by territorial acquisition, either overt (open conquest) or covert (corruption and subversion leading to informal integration/subjugation).
The EU has specialised in the latter form of acquistion in recent decades, having learned it from their imperial masters in DC.
But every Empire also expands until it is surrounded by enemies who are implacably opposed to its very existence, let alone its expansion.
At this point the internal contradictions of Empire (it rewards destructive behaviours and punishes productive behaviours) turn against it and its decline becomes undeniable and its end becomes unavoidable.
Unfortunately for those of us trapped in the tentacles of various imperial schemes, Empires are most dangerous to their own people in their dotage.
"Instability in the periphery" is imperial droid code for "resistance to imperial acquisition".
War is always destabilising and the most extreme and destructive tool for territorial control. Europe is still promoting and preparing to wage war against Russia. Only fools and despots do that to Russia believing they can win or benefit from it. But the brainwashed people in Europe might go along with this madness and willingly volunteer to walk straight into the Russian meat grinder.