Bush Backs Ukraine & Georgia On Nato Bid

It is bizarre that no major news service offered any analysis of why would US want NATO's eastward expansion so badly. The very learnt ladies and gentlemen would not have to go to great lengths to find out that since the times of Zbigniew Brezinsky's The Grand Chessboard became the handbook of American foreign policy it is a cornerstone of the US geopolitical strategy to see to it that "no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America."

After the Soviet collapse the EU had become a major threat to this, so at least last 15 years everything has been done to sow dissent within Europe and create or sustain hot spots of conflict on the continent. Almost every part of US involvement in Europe pursues the goal of undermining any possible increase of the EU's political influence in its own backyard. Cleverly exploiting historical divisions and nationalist sentiments, American strategists manage to divide and rule the affairs across the ocean. What amazes me that Europeans (appear to) to stand powerless in face of such a blatant manipulation and basically swallow whatever the US feeds them.

Just a few examples: the manhandling of the Yugoslavian conflict and leaving so many festering conflict spots in its wake, the ongoing waging of anti-European influence via the "special relationship" with UK, creating a chasm within the Euro ranks by making pledge allegiance to the Iraq war, alienating Russia from the mainstream European politics in every possible way - and now backing the NATO's eastward expansion. I see how that last one serves American interests so well, but I am really in awe with the European leaders' stupidity (or the unwillingness to react in any meaningful way). Can it be that all capable strategists have left Europe for fatter American paychecks and there is no one to advise Euro bosses on their own best interests? Or does the Franko-German axis hope for the spoils from it all?