Intent is rather less as China has fixation with its reserves and eradication of inequalities. Economic welfare is the greatest of the equalisers in present confrontations around the world. Everyone is fighting for its own national significance and better level of continued existence.
Behind the scenes the jostling is quite different what appears in public is for the consumption of the galleries. I am totally convinced that super power division is no division of substance but rather appearance. Whatever Russians, French and Chinese are standing for it is all for their own protection of trough and marking of territory.
Germans and Europe under Bismarck had a long history of involvement in the near east and Berlin to Baghdad railway line was an alternate root to the British domination of the sea-lanes. The Anglo-Saxon history has not just gone away, the old Europe still very much exists.
Mesopotamia and Middle East houses oil and has greatest of geographical proximity with the Europeans. For them to show a dismal interest in Iraq would be suicidal to the national interests of oil, in a recreation of old Europe Putin wants to be seen with his allies although his heart is with the Americans, removal of radical elements who favour using Islamic symbols for their own survival are a continued threat to ferment trouble within oil rich Dagestan and Chechnyan populace.
It is most unfortunate that foreign policy of Europeans and Russians is more dominated by oil than US policy can be accused off. US anyway controls the heart of oil-land through the geographical expanse of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the Europeans who wants a piece of action, with Iraq out of their control and we all know EU and Saddam goes long way back they very well realize the elimination of their influence from politics of oil. The cruel fact is that not only US controls the politics of moderate Islam by harnessing likes of Musharraf and Abdullah they are at the heart of politics of oil too, these are very harsh facts no self respecting ex-empires and wannabees can face, it is these ground realties that EU cannot digest.
On one hand sedation of political Islam by Anglo-Saxons is a wish that has come true for Europeans although for galleries French and EU for sake of their North African enclaves and Germans for sake of their Turks would like to be seen as 'friends of earth.' The de-politicisation and de-bathification of Iraq will have a great positive impact on the entire Middle East, they represent the rejectionist block within the Arab world, with Saddam gone a thorn will be removed and a thaw would be expected within relationships of the Middle east.
When Ridavan Karadzic was about to be arrested in Bosnia the Europeans saved this reincarnation of Hitler and no one else, in Balkan crisis the EU inaction was disgraceful had it not been for Americans the Balkan Muslims would have slaughtered by the Serbs not that they were not amply but total elimination was in sight, where these Europeans than when Islam and civilisational icons of Hergozovina were being decimated. The political brinkmanship within Security Council is part of the grand diplomacy to win the heart of Islam but the core objective to remove uncertainties remain absolutely firm so when the time will come they will join the allies, when Baghdad will fall Clemenceau will not be far from the shores of Gulf. |
