We might say that the achievement of reality in politics happened first through Vladimir Putin. But this was Russian politics, which is a completely alien universe, compared to American politics. I, as a Dutchman, have much more to do with American politics than with Russian politics, at least in the sense of how my own government works, how it is embedded in financial structures that are shared across the West. In this financial paradigm, Trump is the first who is not a complete fantasy-image but an actual player, an agent, an actor. Not a play-act but someone who acts, does things, rather than merely saying things and having his handlers do the exact opposite, of which Obama was a shining example.
But about Russia and Putin. It is not entirely random that the crazies in the US tied Trump to Putin in their thinking, as both men actually are men, persons with a will, and a character (and a fate). They are both men that have worked “the machine” for their entire professional lives, and who managed, through unbelievably intelligent maneuvering and playing with magnificent skill and sensibility the apparatuses of their respective states, to manifest a position of leadership in their countries that had not existed in either of these countries for at least half a century.
What remains now, is the achievement of reality in European politics. I will carefully suggest something now: Russia is European nation. I mean, this is a fact, Petersburg and Moscow are European cities, the fertile black triangle (Chernozem) of Russia is European as well. Its authors are Europes most and best respected. And this has been Putins message as well: let us in, stop demonizing us, you are demonizing yourself.
I am not saying Europe should consider inviting Russia to be a EU member instead of Turkey, even though naturally it is infinitely preferable to have Russia as a member than Turkey - Russia raises cultural standards and military safety, where Turkey completely demolishes both. But the EU is not my favourite institution at all, so I won’t advocate its expansion. However, it is necessity that Russia is accepted as a European nation, incidentally the one that beat back Hoitlorrr.
Ill put it stronger: Europe is nothing without Russia. It is not a continent without Russia, nor can there by a European society without Russia. It is the leading nation of the East, and all the countries with which the EU was expanded under Oinklish pressure are states that are cultural shadows of Russia, the only value of which for the EU establishment at that point was as bounty stolen from Russian realm. But that didn’t work. Russia began to grow stronger, and Europe started to collapse. Some things you just can’t change.
One of the first steps European leaders of industry must take now is to propose to further the plans Putin put forth for the intercontinental, Transsiberian, Transalaskan highway between London and New York. Vast, vast profits will be inevitable for all involved parties, profits economic as well as cultural. Such a highway could become a spine to an entirely new-born world of optimism and cultural advance.
The Russians were the first to put a man in space. They are the boldest nation under the Sun. Europe must be very thankful to have this power now willing to do so much in service of its continent, which still needs to prove to be worthy of Russian favours and loyalty. And that would, as I see it, be the achievement of reality in European politics: to find a way in which Europe can remain Americas first ally as well as a continent that has Russia among its nations.