Another
cold war within the new cold war between “allies”
by system
failure
In a recent
article by Washington Post, a new scandal is revealed concerning NSA
interceptions. Among various information, there are also claims about
a secret overseas nuclear project and an ostensible ally:
“Among
the most valuable contents — which The Post will not describe in
detail, to avoid interfering with ongoing operations — are fresh
revelations about a secret overseas nuclear project, double-dealing
by an ostensible ally, a military calamity that befell an
unfriendly power, and the identities of aggressive intruders into
U.S. computer networks.”
Speaking at
PressTV network, a political commentator has warned that Germany
should be careful over the spying feud with the US because Washington
is likely to blame Berlin for World War III as the European country
was blamed for World War I and II (!!!) :
“'Germany
has to be particularly careful because Germany was blamed for World
War I, Germany was blamed for World War II, and now with its
connivance with the United States, it looks like Germany would be
blamed for World War III,' Anna O’Leary, a writer based in
Listowel, Ireland, said in a phone interview with Press TV on
Monday.”
“Elsewhere
in her remarks, the analyst said German Chancellor Angela Merkel is
'up in arms with America' over the National Security Agency’s
spying on her and her country. Last week, German police arrested a
German intelligence employee suspected of spying for the United
States. [...] O’Leary added that after 'the arrest of this German
double agent, relations between the Unites States and Germany are
further strained.'”
“Speaking
at a news conference in China on Monday, Merkel said that if reports
that the intelligence employee spied for the US are proven true, it
would be a 'clear contradiction' of trust between the two countries.”
“Relations
between the two transatlantic partners turned sour after it was
revealed that the NSA had been snooping on Merkel. Leaked documents
also show the spy agency has conducted mass espionage activities on
German citizens.”
It is
obvious that the relations between the two allies have been damaged
irreparably due to NSA interceptions, but it seems that there is much
more than that because it appears that Germans are not willing to
drop Russian energy supply:
“'There
will be no fracking for economic purposes in Germany in the near
future,' German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks announced at a
press conference on Friday. Under her proposal, developed jointly
with fellow Social Democrat and Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel,
most forms of hydraulic fracking—the process of extracting gas by
injecting water and sand mixed with a small amount of chemical
additives into rocks deep underground—will be prohibited until
2021.”
“German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats have yet to
weigh in on the proposed ban. If enacted, it would leave Germany at
the mercy of Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly used Europe's energy
dependence on Russia to the Kremlin's geopolitical advantage.”
While
the US rush to cut any connection with Russia
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/06/us-deep-state-tries-to-cut-its-few-ties.html),
planning dangerous war games, they expect from their allies to do the
same. As long as Germans insist to be dependent on Russia, they will
probably considered as an ostensible ally by Washington.
Of
course, the antagonism in economic level doesn't make things better:
“In
fact, the U.S. and Europe are engaged in a competitive race on who
will give more to large corporations and banks. This explains the
recent statement by the U.S. Secretary of Treasury, speaking about
growth through consumption, criticizing indirectly the austerity
policies in Europe, and the expected reaction of Schaeuble, as the
U.S. rely heavily on consuming power, and they do not want for the
moment to cut wages and labor rights in extent. They see that Europe
is moving rapidly to the degradation of welfare state and dissolution
of labor rights, which means that it will quickly become more
"attractive", even for big companies based in their
territory.”
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