Analyst: a unified "front" Russia and Germany? Dream-torn Ukraine
The Ukrainian crisis has shattered the dream of Russia and Germany about Europe, United under the flag of full understanding of the capital of Russia and Berlin, writes the Irish journalist in his own column for RT.
in the 1960-ies of the Belgian politician Jean-Francois Tirar shaped his vision of "a United Europe" - Europe from Dublin to Vladivostok, the journalist writes. In the form of a "superpower" during the cold war was supposed to be a new force of " not Moscow, not Washington, and Europe. Review of MacDonald's ideas Tirara about the unity of Europe is alive and forty years later - As most of the European continent, and in the Russian Federation, including former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin, would like to translate a formula of the Belgian policy in life.
"The warming of relations between Moscow and Berlin would help the two States to make the axis counterweight to the United States and an emerging China. About that long dreamed of, but it seems that the Ukrainian crisis finally buried this project, " says Brian McDonald.
review analyst, Russia is disappointed that the majority of European countries with which the Kremlin has long tried to build trust, are currently under the "dictatorship" of the US capital and is unable to pursue an independent foreign policy. One of the reasons for Russia's "turn to the East" MacDonald sees the impossibility of rapprochement with Europe in the current environment.
"anyway I am sure that the Russian Federation will not lose hope of a replacement course of European politics [in Moscow]. The EU is unstable, and if the Union and destined to eventually collapse, then there is a high probability that then Germany will try to save the European Foundation, rallying the rest of the countries around its economy. Powerful and impressive Berlin would insist on independent from the capital of the USA course. Both Moscow and Berlin known words of the first Secretary General of NATO, Lord Ismay about "Germany under control and Russia out of Europe, and in both capitals there will be those who disagree with this formula," adds the writer.