Why The United Kingdom Should Stay In Europe
On 23rd June 2016 a historic vote will take place in the United Kingdom.
On that day the British electorate, the common folk, will decide whether Britain will remain or leave the European Union.
Unlike
the rest of Europe, the British electorate have been given by the
government of Premier David Cameron a 'real' referendum on whether to
stay 'in Europe' or 'Britian out' (Brexit) from Europe.
Unlike other countries within the 'Union' the bureaucrats
in Brussels and Strasbourg will not be able to 'persuade' the British
government (the second most powerful economy in the European Union) to
have a second or third or fourth referendum until the British electorate
'get the vote right'. So this vote folks, will determine the destiny
not just of Britain but also of Europe for (perhaps) centuries.
The Roots of All Evil
Europe
(The EU Parliament) is a bully. Remote from the people it facelessly
governs. It is a bureaucratic mess. It is incompetent, petty with it's
over-regulation stifiling the ability of business both to succeed at
home and compete abroad.
It is the Western European equivalent of COMECON – the Soviet Union's fake economic union of Soviet (WARSAW PACT) member states.
The European Union, as exists in it's current shape or form, is doomed to ultimate administrative collapse and a horrible bureaucratic death in a
Hell-fire sea of paperwork - drowning all the way to the bottom and
consumed to total incineration it's very own ashes.
With all of
the above, you might well say to me, 'what's the point then of Britian
staying in?'; 'lets get the hell outta Dodge City while we still can!'
But
let us look at who will be remaining inside the Union to pick up the
mess and carry out much needed (and long-overdue) reforms as the bureaucracy grinds to an inexorable deadlock, immobility and standstill on many key issues.
After the Fire
Germany
– one of only a handful of other stable economies within the European
Union (apart from Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark) which are not, technically,
bankrupt and which can show physical exports of goods and services
worldwide – will remain as the only key EU member with the financial, organizational and
political clout to 'pick up' the shattered pieces (ashes) from a
devastated Europe after the EU bureaucracy collapses or grinds to an inefficient standstill. But it will need
support in 'reshaping' a defunct and dysfunctional European Union
Parliamentary system with a new constitution and new direction so that
Europe can continue to effectively compete as a major player in the
global market economy where trading blocs and economic integration are
the future for the planet in the short-term.
Religious Minorities, Discrimination and Pogroms In Europe Today
I
remarked not too long ago that the only Black and Muslim faces you see
in the Parliament of Europe are to be found in the kitchens below ground
level. So it was no surprise to me (personally) that many
'volunteers' from EU member States thought that joining, fighting and
dying for ISIS/ISIL/The Islamic State/Daesh, even with all it's twisted and
inverted ideology and evil visions for the future of Islam, was far
better and more honorable than, as they perceive it, living as Muslim 'serfs'
in Western Europe with all it's 'alien' values, equal rights for men, women, gays and lesbians, nightlife, the 'immorality' of alcohol, pubs, cigarettes, bar and club life where men and women congregate together for entertainment and pleasure, and the separation of church
and state in a 'godless' 'hell' ruled by Mammon.
As such would be perceived through their eyes, better to die a 'free' man in 'the 'perfect' Muslim society on earth (Daesh propaganda about it's Islamic Caliphate) than as a 'slave' in an ocean of apostasy.
The Taliban in Afghanistan share with their counterparts in the Daesh Caliphate (The Islamic State) this same Wahhabist and Salafist (Saudi Arabia originated) vision of the world and existence.
In their eyes, our way of living and lifestyle choices are 'works of the devil' whose exorcism can only be 'cleansed' by death or conversion to Islam.
[As a researcher and analyst, I closely followed 'chatter' on ICQ (long before Facebook and the like) where there were 'buzzes' of ideas about Islam, where it had 'gone astray' and where it should be going.]
Exodus
As
tribal Europe intensifies it's modern-day 'pogroms' against all Muslims,
expect, as with the Jews in the 1920s and 1930s, an exit of professional
highly-educated and highly-skilled individuals in search of peace,
freedom and religious tolerance to elsewhere in the world.
The vast majority are not 'extremists' so Saudi Arabia would never be their country of choice nor lifestyle.
(I have my
own ideas of where they will be headed today – and the places would
surprise you as they are not at all where you would traditionally expect
migrants and refugees to end up.)
One Country's Loss.........
Without the tribal pogroms in the Ukraine, in
Russia proper and in Germany in past centuries we would never today have
had Levi Strauss nor Isaac Asimov nor Albert Einstein nor the hundreds
of thousands of talented Jewish individuals whose exit from Europe
fleeing from persecution and discrimination was a 'godsend' to other
emerging and existing superpowers.
At that particular time, the United States was the greatest beneficiary from such pogroms against the Jews in Europe for nearly two centuries.
(Most
did not stay beyond a few decades in England and many (or their
children) made their way to 'the golden land' - where their skills and
talents were properly rewarded in a peaceful and democratic environment,
free from religious persecution and where they and their families were protected from blatant injustices and pogroms by laws of the land.)
In a
world where regional trading blocs will be of increasing importance
hitherto unrealised opportunities will arise for those fleeing
persecution in Europe to new, dynamic and emerging economies and trade
zones in the developing world where likewise their skills and talents will be valued and appreciated for what they are, in their own right.
[To give the reader some
appreciation of the extent of consolidation of regions for economic,
trade and investment purposes, please refer to the references at the end
of this blog.]
After the Fire
Russia
After the EU
collapses under the weight of its own bureaucracy Europe, without
Britain present, would move politically closer towards fascism and it
new leaders would be encouraged by Moscow to seek closer trade, monetary
and military ties with Russia and the Russian rouble and away from the
(U.S.) dollar.
Fear and tribalism (innate to Europe) would then take hold and accelerate this procesas.
The
'new' political (Fascist) 'Right' would, in the absence of British and
U.S. democratic influence, see many more 'encouraging' factors in
building stronger ties with Russia.
Dictatorship
Russia will
not ask 'awkward' questions of Western Europe's new fascist rulers as
they would move collectively, without the influence of Britian nor
America present, to 're-shape' the continent in their own image.
Let
us, for one moment and very briefly, look at what happened historically
when Britain and the United States remained isolationist ('in splendid
isolation') from Europe.
Fascists Join Forces Across Continental Europe
No I am not just talking about yesterday but how the past is repeating itself today in tribal Europe.
Remember
folks it was not Great Britain nor the United States which signed a
'military' alliance with The Fuhrer as the Nazis swept both into power
in Germany - 'democratically' - through the ballot box - and across
Western Europe in a process called 'Blitzkrieg'.
It was fascist
Russia and fascist Germany which together signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop'
pact or alliance – effectively co-joining the Communists of Russia with
the Nazis in Germany.
This alliance or 'pact' would, it was hoped,
enable both regimes to dominate the continent of Europe: Germany in the
West and Russia in the East.
Both Stalin and Hitler however had their
own unique visions for such a union of convenience but as two fascist
dictatorships, they were on better speaking terms with each other than
with Great Britian, the United States and their respective allies. In
other words Hitler and Stalin 'understood each other' (or thought they
did) better than the British and the Americans since they saw the world
the same way: ripe for military domination and economic re-shaping;
starting with continental Europe, then moving on to take over the United
States then to dominate the entire planet.)
As with all dictators,
Stalin and Hitler were soon to fall out and start a war with each other
rather than first with their very own common enemies, as to which
'version' of fascism (Communism or Nazism) would rule the world.
Both of course blamed each other for the collapse of the 'pact'.
If
Hitler had not acted first with superior airpower and swiftly moved
batallions into the East to crush the surprised and totally unprepared
Soviet military forces, as soon as he was (militarily) capable for
action, Stalin most certainly would have invaded Western Europe with his
very own version of 'lightning strike'.
It was the equivalent of two
large cannibal spiders going to war:the cage (planet) was simply too
small for both to co-exist peacefully so one had to eat the other – and
very quickly – then consume what remained of the other insects and
smaller spiders and re-shape the (remaining) devastated ecosystem in
it's own image.
It was at this point that the West (Britain and
America) out of pure self-interest and self-preservation, saw Stalin as
the lesser of the two fascist evils and decided to throw the weight of
the Wsetern Allies behind the weaker of the two warring powers -
Stalin's Communist Russia and against Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Why It's In Russia's Interest For Britain To Exit Europe
It
should therefore come as no surprise that the successor to the Soviet
Union's Josef Stalin – President Vladimir Putin – would wish to see
Britain 'out' rather than 'in' Europe:
Continental Europe will be
easier for Russia to economically, politically and militarily dominate
with Britain and America both removed from the scene than if they are
both to remain – and to remain committed to reforming the European
Parliament to make it less bureaucratic, more streamlined and more
efficient.
(But Britain can only do this if it remains as a member of the European Union.)
Hence
Russia's 'anti-American' rhetoric coupled with support for the United
Kingdom's 'Brexit' movements - all designed to pander to tribalism,
racism, effectively using the propaganda of fear - evoking British and
European 'tribal heimats' - of a dilution of the 'purity' of Europe,
it's traditions and values – playing (quite effectively I might add) on
ancient Europe's dark innate fears with regard to tribalism and racism
by placing them into a modern day context.
[Most Europeans are, like
their American and British counterparts, unaware of the real power of
propaganda which was most effectively used by both Communist Russia and
Nazi Germany to garner support for their respective causes.
Even
today the propaganda from Russia is light years ahead of anything coming
from either the United States or from Western Europe.]
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
So
for Britian to abandon Europe is effectively handing it over, lock,
stock and two smoking barrels to the Russian Federation and it's allied
economic and military forces, prepared and eager as they all are to
re-shape and re-build Europe and it's institutions (Brussels and
Strasburg) in their very own images.
The Immediate Future For Europe
No
doubt there will be a lot of challenges, turbulence, turmoil and
political instability in continental Europe in the coming months, years
and perhaps decades (similar to the 1930s before Hitler took power) but
there is no doubt in my mind that Western Europe and the entire planet
are safer (from another Hitler) and more at peace with Britain remaining
inside, as a player, as a member, and as a reformer, rather than a
'Brexit' from the European Union.
It's a rocky road ahead - but less so with Britain 'in' than 'out' of Europe.
©Patrick Emek, May 2016
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