Friday, November 29, 2013

Eurasian Union vs. European Union. Who will rule Moscow or Brussels?

Since the proposal made by President Putin abput creating an Eurasian Customs Union to involve all the former soviet republics in Central Asia, the Caspian States, it has been made true by concrete facts and agreements on a very fast track basis having involved in its reign almost all of the "stans" as well as the caspian states, which together with other blocs of power lead by Russia such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization threaten to displace and diminish the influence of the European Union, specifically and particularly because of its wealth of natural resources richness, basically oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and rare earths underneath the vast continental shelf of all this territory, which was former under the rule of the Soviet Union, initiative that already has been called by many as a Soviet Union revived. Even though Mr Putin has been insistenly rejecting this proposal as being a new try of recreating a Soviet Union, at least not ideologically speaking under communism reign, it seems that Russia as a nation ideal wants to retake and regain its very continental sphere of influence that once had during the Cold War era. And today has the resources to do so, comparing to the many difficulties which the EU is experiencing (financial crisis, xenophobical groups, organizations and parties on the rise disdaining eurofanatism, and so on) and as well as the waning influence of Washington in North Atlantic relationship, specifically through its well known mechanism of taking control of the Caspian hydrocarbon resources, all of the former at the end blocked by the Kremlin, seducing, courting and in many times forcing countries such as Georgia, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan and the likes to back off Washington-EU intentions of falling under EU-NATO influence, having been succesfully done so, having Ukraine its absolute prize. So if well put into perspective, and comparing the European Union status nowadays, and the Eurasian Union-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (which recently Turkey proposed to become full member) dynamics lead by Mr Putin, we can see that if events keep evolving the way they are so far, Eurasian Union not only will displace the European Union as a geopolitical bloc of power, but could displace it in the foreseeable future.





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