I believe the Mossad and Russia's FSB will have no problem cooperating with each other since they somehow face the same threat --ie Muslim unrest... As regards France, the key here is the so-called "Pasqua network": Corsicans and Israelis share a common "siege mentality" and they are close associates in intelligence/arms business.
Re: what is the mission of the EURO Army - solving problems with force within Europe or in the rest of the world?
I'm afraid the foremost mission of the EURO army will be to preserve a white, Christian EU. Therefore, its battleground and targets will likely be more "domestic" than "overseas"... Expect joint military exercises between the Euro Rapid Reaction Force and Russian stormtroopers pretty soon --the backdrop will likely be an urban rebel environment.
For now, Eurasia and the US are merely rival powers, yet, they'll likely become hostile powers in a coupla years. However, militarily speaking, Eurasia ain't no match for the US war machine: as NSA Condi Rice put it, the US is still the only country that can, at the same time, wage a war in the Balkans, police the Chinese navy around Taiwan, and repel an alien invasion from Mars! <g>
That's why I think that Europe's targets will be found inside Europe, just as during WWII. Remember that Nazi Germany never dropped a single bomb on US soil; actually, Hitler even refrained from storming Great Britain... And the clash between the emerging superpower --the USA-- and the IIIrd Reich unfolded exclusively on European soil and vicinity (North Africa) and the victims were not American minorities but European ones --Jews, Gypsies, gays, leftists,...
Re: And, by the way, when did the U.S. become a RIVAL power v. Euros
I think most observers agree on the teardown of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as the landmark of a new era, an era that exposes the US/Western Europe alliance as irrelevant, to say the least... Again, I'd refer to my pet metaphor: think of the US/Europe divide as of Rome vs. Byzantium with Democracy instead of Christianity as the ideological bone of contention. In that perspective, WWI merely was Roman America's 1st Crusade; WWII was the second Crusade; Kosovo the third one.... Accordingly, one might ask when comes the fourth one --that is, the one that wound up with the sack of Constantinople....
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