Diplomacy is good, but firmness is better. This is the difference between the "old" Europe and the more developed "Trans Atlantic" Europe which looks at the Trans Atlantic partnership as the sole means to strengthen the European Union as a global player and preserving the values of the west in a new multipolar world threatened by international terrorism.
In an article composed by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the PM of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, published on the prestigious "Times", is a masterpiece of the good attitude the European Union should assume after the wave of terrorist attacks in Paris. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4323577.ece
In the article, entitled "We won't the voice of freedom be muzzled", President Obama and PM Cameron staunchly affirm the support of both the United States and the United Kingdom to France and to all countries targeted by international terrorism.
President Obama and PM Cameron rightly call not to connect international terrorism with Islam, because not all Muslims can be considered as terrorist. However, the President of the United States and the PM of the United Kingdom are going to renew their historical friendship and joint international commitment against those nations and people who use religious extremism as a means of terror and death.
President Obama and PM Cameron mention the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -ISIL- as a terrorist state. Moreover, the President of the United States and the PM of the United Kingdom also call the European Union and the whole international community to strongly oppose Russian military warfare against Ukraine.
The President of the United States and the PM of the United Kingdom write that diplomacy towards Russia should remain the best way to solve the Ukrainian crisis, but they also argue that the support to pro-Russian terrorists in eastern Ukraine given by Russia is a threat to the prosperity of the whole European Union.
What President Obama and PM Cameron have written mirrors how the European Union should act in today's world, in order to face the threat of both religious and nationalist terrorism, as the one of Al Qaeda and the one of Russia respectively.
The European Union which is needed today is based on the friendship between Washington and London, with a more important role within the institutions of the European Union by the wisest member states of the European Union, such as Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The United States and the United Kingdom have been jointly committed in Europe to the preservation of the values of the west against the USSR and the dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic during Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher and Bill Clinton & Tony Blair eras respectively. Now, a joint commitment of Barack Obama & David Cameron is needed to protect Europe from religious fundamentalism and Russian military aggression.
The European Union which is needed today must make Europe a part of the Trans Atlantic Community, together with the United States, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan and other world countries who share the values of the west - democracy, liberty, human rights, progress and peace.
Otherwise, the European Union which is not needed is the one that, simultaneously with the publication of the article by President Obama and PM Cameron, calls for a detente towards Russia, although Moscow nothing did to respect human rights and the international rule of law in an independent state as Ukraine is.
The Europe which is not needed is the one based on the "old" pro-Russian French-German axis, hostage of Russian lobbyist and ruled by an anti-American political elites.
The Europe which wins in today's world geopolitics is the Trans Atlantic one of Cameron, Tusk, Grybauskaite, Renzi and even Obama. A Europe which has no fear of fanatic terrorists and Russian bears.
Matteo Cazzulani - Analista politico
