Pepe Escobar: Divisions Brewing in Europe

• Pepe Escobar: Divisions Brewing in Europe
  by Ekaterina Blinova, https://sputnikglobe.com/
  Dissent is brewing inside the EU and inside NATO as old aristocracy and business circles of France and Germany feel betrayed by Washington, Pepe Escobar, geopolitical analyst and veteran journalist, told Radio Sputnik’s New Rules podcast.
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  “Basically, what the Americans would like to do is to have Eastern Europe leading NATO and even leading the EU, which is even more far-fetched,” said Pepe Escobar.
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  “And the new superpower would be Poland. This is what they think and this is what they’re actually working towards. The French and the Germans, and I’m not generalizing, let’s say, [the] patriotic faction of French business especially, and a few diplomats are saying, ‘No, we have to go back to our De Gaulle modern roots. We should be independent. We should have our own ‘force de frappe’, as they say, our own striking force. And we should leave NATO’, in fact,” the geopolitical analyst continued.”
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  As the Biden administration is pushing ahead with simultaneously confronting Russia and China, Washington’s European allies are facing risks of losing not only cheap energy commodities but a leading trade partner, too.
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