Dutch corporate broadcasters have been smearing Social-Democracy of "the Left" by introduction of American productions of Hollywood and New York with extreme violence and cruelty. Little diversity in offerings ... reruns of "B" productions to brainwash the viewer.

The algorithms of Big Tech from Silicon Valley and search engines like META has censored dissident views and cultivated the far right.

The established think tanks has established American foreign policy of neo-colonialism and repeated false narratives to go to war on LIES and DISINFORMATION.

The bs of expansion to serve capitalism has found a fertile soil in Brussels (EU) as a forerunner for further NATO expansion into former Communist Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe. The bs of "common values" should be a red flag for authoritarianism, dictatorship, corruption and lack of democratic character.

The European Union slides into the abyss, a trap set by every U.S. administration since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR.

I used to enjoy multiple broadcasts with European production of films and television series. The humanity in French films always ended in a message of good. I cannot watch any of the shit broadcast today filled with cruelty, torture, ultimate gun violence. There is no limit set on the imagination to produce American crap for the corporate slave holders of European counterparts. 🤮 🤑

Most recent addition on Dutch television was a serie titled "Sniper - Special Ops".

The Elephant and the Bear: 
The European Union, Russia, and their Near Abroads

The second category of states of the Wider Europe consists of weaker states that need the anchor of robust West European structures, if anything, more and not less than the accession candidates. Yet here there is no clear and powerful mechanism at work, in spite of the political speeches about a new Europe whole and free, with no more Berlin walls. At best it is vaguely hoped that the processes of post-communist transition should be working in parallel, only somewhat slower, compared to the more advanced accession candidates. But there is a less sanguine reality to be observed. It is not a linear process. At some point the distance (qualitative as much as geographical) from core Europe is so great that the more distant societies do not perceive, or indeed have, the same incentives to effectively achieve this profound transformation. In the worst cases, there is outright failure of the post-communist transition by societies that perceive exclusion, and make it an even deeper self-exclusion, as the gangrenous growth of criminality and corrupt governance combines with vicious, primitive nationalism and ethnic conflict.

The misfortune is that the needs of these states are at odds with the EU enlargement process, which privileges the states that are closest to achieving EU norms. One cannot criticise the EU for setting high standards for full membership, because it has fundamental values to defend, and institutional arrangements that could be made ungovernable by excessively fast enlargement. It is hardly a good idea, to say the least, to expand the EU in order to destroy it, remembering that this has actually been the fate of many empires (even if the EU does not think of itself as an empire, it exhibits some such properties).

Therefore the main purpose of the book is to try to find ways of overcoming this unresolved dilemma of post-communist Europe. An extensive conceptual apparatus is offered, with sketches of how a more inclusive Wider Europe strategy might be formulated by the EU. This has to cover all the rather unruly parts of the EU's neighbourhood, through to and including the enormous Russia 🇷🇺 .

As preparation of this text approached its end, the world was suddenly hit by its first post-modern war, the terrorist attack on the United States on 11 September 2001. The main arguments are in fact reinforced by this epoch-making, tragic event. This is because of the impossibility that any "fortress Europe" structure - whether deliberately intended, or as a underlying political process subject to only token checks - can succeed in achieving the stability of the Wider Europe. And without this wider stability, core Europe cannot be secure.

In one crucial respect, however, September 11th falls into place as the missing piece of the puzzle. The first post-communist decade was all about the attempted convergence of the new democracies on the norms of the EU and the West, given the absence of any fundamental enemies anywhere on the landscape. This convergence process was found to be weak at its outer edges, even collapsing into outright failure in places.

The new epoch, post-11 September, sees a Europe that includes Russia united with the US against a new common enemy.

Even if America was the target, the implications for the Wider Europe are fundamental. This new epoch sees reconstruction of the political-moral foundations of a common European cause, which is a more dynamic and relevant concept than the static and prematurely comfortable notion of the common European home.

Michael Emerson Brussels, 12 October 2001

Bush-Cheney WAR ON TERROR managed to change the narrative inside Europe from a status of PEACE to one of ultimate destiny: WAR ON RUSSIA.

Dumb fools ... the trap of ultimate dictatorship "1984"

[Got more to write, however my time has been limited last two months due to renovation chores in my own home 🏡 ... after 50 years plenty to improve, adjust for the near future ... improved living and joy 😂
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