For the Eastern Europeans, a Europe not allied if not actually led by the United States will be its own nightmare. With the resurgent nationalist Russians to the East and Germans to the West, the Eastern Europeans are not about trust their security to either Germans or the French. For Eastern Europe, there is history of their sovereignty being sacrificed by the Greater European powers and their freedom came as result of American power and idealism. Conservative forces in Italy and Spain as well as the Eastern Europeans are clearly allied with America for a less rigid European Union and acceptance of American leadership as a counterbalance to the European left that dominates the political landscape of Germany and France.

It is tempting to call Germany and France the old Europe and it is true that Europe as continent is several hundreds years in the making. What is also true is that the functioning Democracies in Europe are younger than the United States and Great Britain. And for the most of the past half century, Western Europe has been relieved of its defense responsibility by the United States, so there is a lack of maturity that exist within the defense and intelligentsia of these countries. Now Europe wants to play a greater role in world affair and what passes for policy is nothing more than political pap. Policies based on dreams are not functioning policies. Diplomacy has to be backed up by military power and Europe has been unwilling to spend upon military power. As the crisis in the Balkans demonstrated in the 90's, it was America military might that determined the final results.

Many European leaders have learned the wrong lessons of the past fifty years. At this moment, Europe is at peace for the first in a millennium and there exists no prospect of a major European war. With the implosion of the Soviet Empire, the subsiding of the Balkan crisis and Russia turning westward, Europe lives in peace. This peace came as a result of American steadfast military support of Western Europe and now Europe is being integrated through diplomacy. Most European diplomats find that the peace obtained through negotiations can work anywhere. What is missing from the European mindset is the reality that outside Europe, there exists the law of the jungle. After the end of the Gulf War, the American Secretary of State must deal with the Middle East, North Korea, and possibility the crisis in Southern Asia. European diplomats consider Europe their main sphere of interest. There is different worldview between a European diplomat and an American diplomat. A century ago, it would be the European diplomat that took a worldview and the American diplomat who would consider their backyard as their priority. That has changed. Europe ability to project military power beyond Europe proper pales in comparison to America. As for America and the rest of the Anglosphere, there exist a world outside the shores of Europe or North America. Unlike the Europeans, whose populace is limited to a portion of the Eurasian continent; the Anglosphere nations stretched around the globe.