In terms of a dawning new age this makes perfect sense. Western Europe dominated the middle ages and up until mid 20th century. Just as Greco-Roman culture birthed European civilization before dying, Europe colonized the world and is collapsing on itself (see "Decline of the West") before leaving it's children, the colonized steppes of Russia, American plains as well as it's culture across the world. That Russia and America would want to leave the nest of their parents, old and dying, is a no-brainer. Developing the now thawing tundra of the Siberian, Alaskan, Canadian wilderness and connecting Asia, America, Russia by rail, roads, tunnels would be good. Old hostilities and friendships hold America and Russia in the grip of the Europeans. NATO is a construct to protect Europe from Russia. Europe has become a US colony. They behave still as if they were masters of the universe. However as Asia has modernized and Eastern Europe and Russia left communism far behind for modern economies and democracy, central Europe is no longer of such consequence. Zero growth, declining populations, huge debts make Western Europe less attractive long term to the USA than Russia and central East Asia while developing its own hinterlands together with Russians and Canadians and possibly experiencing a new frontier and population boom as the climate improves in the north and the plains, and western US become deserts long term. This will be the new civilizational paradigm of the next thousand years, not Western Europe.
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