RogerRanger
Contributor
If I look at Europe geo-politically I see a number of different aspects. First Europe is made up of 5 peninsular's. The main European peninsular coming from the North European plain out of Russia, the Iberian peninsular, the Italian peninsular, the Scandinavian peninsular and the Balkan peninsular. The main European peninsular along the North European plain is the heartland or core of Europe. From Warsaw to Paris, in includes all of Germany and the low countries. This is the European core, where most of the economic production and investment is. Out of this in the initial sphere of Europe is the Baltic sea, the Alps and Carpathian mountains. Controlling these area's it vital for the safely to economic unity of the European core. Then in the extended European core your Southern France, Northern Italy, the North sea and River Danube. If the European core can unity, extended and grow from a place of unity and safely, it can then push out further into the Mediterranean, Black sea, Aegean sea/Greece, Iberia and Scandinavia. Three powers in Europe have attempted to do this, the French, Germans and Russians. All have succeeded or failed because they couldn't hold their gains because of pressure from the periphery of Europe. Britain/Turkey/Russia. So here we have the currently economically united, militarily united, politically united Europe against the periphery of Europe.
This situation has happened before in the Napoleonic wars, where the French took Germany/Poland/Low Countries, Spain, Italy, then the British/Russians and Turks worked together to break the French and drive them back and out of the European core. Now the same must happen again.
I would say Britain/Russia/Turkey are regional powers. Britain having the largest GDP, Russia the best military and Turkey the growing population. Combined it would be a formidable opponent for the European core to deal with. Turkey threatening the river Danube, Russia threatening Warsaw and the Baltic, Britain threatening the economic unity and integration of the European core. A united European core with its extended sphere is very powerful indeed, it is a super power. It has the single greatest capability in the world to produce capital and produce goods and consume those goods. Even more so than the US or China. So the task of breaking it apart though vital to Turkey, Russia and Britain will come at a high cost in other areas.
For example relationships with the US, putting resources into other areas and economic development. But the threat is the EU core will simply dominate and control our civilizations and we won't have any choice.
Britain is more threatened by this because it is also dominated by the US. So its basically Britain's only viable option if it wants to maintain any sort of independence.
This situation has happened before in the Napoleonic wars, where the French took Germany/Poland/Low Countries, Spain, Italy, then the British/Russians and Turks worked together to break the French and drive them back and out of the European core. Now the same must happen again.
I would say Britain/Russia/Turkey are regional powers. Britain having the largest GDP, Russia the best military and Turkey the growing population. Combined it would be a formidable opponent for the European core to deal with. Turkey threatening the river Danube, Russia threatening Warsaw and the Baltic, Britain threatening the economic unity and integration of the European core. A united European core with its extended sphere is very powerful indeed, it is a super power. It has the single greatest capability in the world to produce capital and produce goods and consume those goods. Even more so than the US or China. So the task of breaking it apart though vital to Turkey, Russia and Britain will come at a high cost in other areas.
For example relationships with the US, putting resources into other areas and economic development. But the threat is the EU core will simply dominate and control our civilizations and we won't have any choice.
Britain is more threatened by this because it is also dominated by the US. So its basically Britain's only viable option if it wants to maintain any sort of independence.