The European Union is significantly dominant in the geopolitical sector within which it is domiciled—northern Europe. But elsewhere the EU is presently vulnerable. Rising pressures from the east and south are increasingly stressing that unwieldy 27-nation combine to the point where that which its founding fathers most desired, yet which has so far proved most elusive—true cohesion between its disparate member states—will soon become a reality.

The European Union’s main security concerns stem from a truculent Russia to its east, increasing Islamic penetration from the south (bringing with it the heightened risk of extremist terror attacks) and, to a lesser extent, an Anglo-American military alliance to its west.

The combination of these threats must be met and neutralized for the European Union hegemon to reach its as yet unstated goal of global dominance.

In terms of the push from the Islamic south, this is two-pronged. Not only does any perceived revival of Islamic power from Europe’s south have historic negative geopolitical overtones of previous Ottoman incursions northward to Europe’s heartland, the cultural challenge to Europe’s Christian roots from pan-Islamism forebodes an eventual civilizational clash, as in the past. At present the EU is quite content to witness the Anglo-American alliance exhausting itself in Iraq. In addition to keeping it out of the firing line, for the present, in that theater, it allows it time to build its own security and defense mechanisms in preparation for the eventual and inevitable waning of Anglo-American power. That’s when the EU will really start to feel the push from its south, and powerfully react against it. It is currently preparing for that very moment.

The Anglo-American alliance, which placed the United States and Britain (itself a current EU member nation) at odds with the Franco-German leadership of the EU on the issue of the Iraq war, is somewhat less problematic as a challenge to the EU as it remains firmly entrenched within nato, the security umbrella created by the Anglo-Americans specifically to secure Europe against foreign—in particular Russian—threats. In fact, to a sizeable extent, nato is increasingly driven by Europhile military minds that have used its resources to even further EU imperial initiatives—witness the Balkan wars. With all the old Soviet-initiated Warsaw Pact (nato’s counterpart in the old Soviet East) now members of nato, this effectively neutralizes any perceived threat that the U.S. might pose to the rising European empire.

Thus, effectively, Europe is comfortable in largely ignoring any security challenge from its western perimeter, and, in the short term, from the south. This, for the immediate present, leaves it to largely concentrate on the rising perception of threats to its security and defense from the east, where the saber rattling is increasingly becoming louder, courtesy of the rhetoric of one Vladimir Putin.

We have long anticipated that the Russian threat to the EU will be attended to by treaty. Stratfor has rightly concluded that any perceived threat from Russia will only serve to galvanize the rambunctious EU nations toward their longed-for unity. A fractious European Union suits the reemerging Russia admirably. A truly united EU could be seen by Russia as a threat to its own interests. Sooner or later a deal must be done to guarantee non-aggression between these two imperialist powers. We believe the signs indicate this will be sooner rather than later.

With President Putin increasingly meddling in Middle Eastern affairs, threatening destabilization in the Baltic and the Caucuses, agitating in the Balkans over Kosovo, in Ukraine politics and, in particular, fiddling with Iran, the EU realizes that the comfort zone created to its east while Russia struggled to reconstruct following the collapse of the ussr is passé.

The EU simply must come to an understanding with this Russian demagogue.

This is precisely why we believe Germany will very soon intervene to lead the drawing up of a pact with Russia to secure its eastern perimeter. Though the European Union, given time to solve various logistical challenges, could muster its combined military strength of 2 million uniformed personnel into a significant fighting force, the technochrats in Brussels, and the re-emergent German High Command, which is increasingly becoming influential in EU defense strategy, remember well the history of the suicidal danger of engaging on more than one front in battle.

D-day and Stalingrad are powerfully etched into German military strategists’ minds.

European Union defense and security plans simply cannot proceed with any real confidence in the future while Putin insists on raising challenges east and south of Berlin. Forget the technocrats in Brussels in this respect. When it comes to formulating EU defense and security policy, it’s in Berlin that the real movers and shakers can be found.

Pact Predicted

The privilege of working with a combination of recorded history and biblical revelation is that while the one gives perspective and context within the continuing play of current events viewed with the benefit of hindsight, the other gives absolute assurance as to the outcome of major world events.

The historical and strategic context demands that the situation predicted by Herbert Armstrong consistently over the years—that Russia and a revived imperialist European power must conclude a non-aggression pact before the European empire (historically the Holy Roman Empire) can proceed to globally expand—be soon brought to a head.

No EU member nation is better placed than Germany to negotiate such a treaty.

Not only does Germany have an ex-chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, firmly embedded in one of Russia’s main industrial sources of income by virtue of his senior executive status with Russian energy giant Gazprom, but Germany’s vice chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Schröder’s old confidante, has more experience and proven expertise than any other EU representative in Russian-German diplomacy.

Added to this is the cozy relationship between President Putin and the chairman of the high-powered EU committee addressing bureaucratic inefficiency within the European Commission, Edmund Stoiber, and there exists a troika of German expertise ready and able to do business with Vladimir Putin, far outweighing the relative inexperience of Chancellor Angela Merkel in this arena. Further add to this the fact that kgb agent Vladimir Putin spent the formative years of his career in East Germany and it becomes self evident that Germany is by far and away the hot choice for negotiating acceptable political, defense and security middle ground as the basis for a non-aggression pact between the EU and Russia.

This is something to watch for in the immediate future. It could very well be that any declaration of independence by Kosovo could provide the spark that will ignite initial negotiations to bring the separate foreign policies of Russia and a German-dominated EU to an acceptable balance between the two.

There is one other factor that could provide a catalyst to bring Russia to the negotiating table sooner rather than later.

A recent report from German-Foreign-Policy.com highlighted that “In the next few days German-French military circles will be initiating the establishment of an EU-wide association to reinforce the population’s readiness to accept war. This is based upon an agreement between the German Gesellschaft für Wehr- und Sicherheitspolitik (GfW) (Association for Defense and Security Policies) and the French Civisme Défense Armée Nation organization (CiDAN) (Civil Responsibility, Defense, Army, Nation). … The GfW, which, from the German side, participated in the planning, is closely linked to the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) and the German ruling parties. Over the past few years, the GfW has been repeatedly criticized because of its contacts to extreme rightist milieus” (December 4).

While we cannot allocate space to studying the GfW in this article, it sufficient to note that it has traceable links to Germany’s Nazi past. For those with a ready mind to history, the words of GfW participant Col. Manfred Rosenberger of the Bundeswehr (German Army), as quoted by German-Foreign-Policy.com, are quite chilling: “‘Global politics cannot be influenced without military capability,’ writes Rosenberger. ‘This is particularly evident when seen in the context of Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq.’ According to the colonel, the ‘concord of citizens throughout Europe’ is indispensable for future combat missions of an EU army. ‘Everyone must be convinced of the necessity to consolidate efforts in the realm of security and defense.’ Rosenberger calls for the development of a new readiness to accept war through ‘nurturing a security and defense thinking within educational institutions.’ Besides teachers (‘at universities and schools’), journalists, above all, ‘must be won’ as partners in cooperation” (ibid.).

That is the type of talk that will make a Russian president sit up and take notice!

The pressure is mounting now on both sides of the divide of the great Ukraine plain to bring the German-dominated European Union and re-emergent Russia to the negotiating table. If only those minds that guide foreign policy in Washington and London could perceive the dangers in any future Russo-German pact to the balance of power in the North Atlantic region, they would give far more attention to this theater of international relations than to wasting energy in Iraq and Afghanistan at this time.

Anglo-Americans will yet rue the day they took their eye off the ball in Europe.

If you want to know why, check out our booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.