Without that Europe can really assert itself

"A step forward, two not backward", Lenin. Are the relationship between the Russia, America and Europe about to make a leap forward At the Summit of NATO in November Lisbon, 28 members of the Atlantic Alliance and the Russia began a rapprochement as Chancellor German Angela Merkel had found "historic". On paper, two years after the war Flash of Georgia and the amputation of part of the territory of the former Soviet Republic by Russian troops, progress between "West" and Russia are actually important.

The Russia and NATO have thus agreed to cooperate on the study of common missile defense deployment in Europe. A Copernican revolution from the Bush years marked by extreme tensions on this issue. More Alliance, miraculée of the cold war, and the enemy of yesterday have decided to increase their cooperation to allow us forces and their allies to carry equipment in Afghanistan - like armoured trucks, not armed - from the Russia to avoid Pakistan.

Similarly the two entities have decided to revive some of the joint military exercise that had to be arrested in the summer 2008. And on the challenges of XXI century, the Russia and the United States are more and more close to share a common vision of the world that there is proliferation, terrorism, piracy, natural disasters, or even of certain aspects of contemporary migration. It is as if the Russia was on the threshold of accession to the Alliance, without obviously military constraints, its integrated command and the solidarity of the Allied attack against one of them likely. 95 To 97 of the major strategic today issues, NATO and the Russia are very close, noted politician Russian during a meeting in Paris organized by Yannick Mireur, the editor-in-Chief of the journal "policy American", in the cycle of conferences "The Russia Nexus".

Especially, russo-atlantique thaw stops not only military matters and security, but also affects civil society and the economy, as the prove also informal meetings, industrial and political. Include the will of the Kremlin to find pathways of conciliation with the Poland including recognizing the Soviet responsibility in the infamous massacre of Polish officers at Katyn in 1940, and then will calm its relations with the European Union.

Beyond short-term interests, which also grow this approximation is no doubt a large tectonic movement of the geopolitics of the world marked by the rise in power, economic but also political of China, the India to a lesser extent, and the weakening, relative to the United States. Without that Europe can really assert itself.

The Russia of Putin, itself, is no longer the wounded bear of the Soviet après-Union, but a nation seeking to regain its place of great power. Fear of Moscow of a us advance on its steps, in Ukraine, largely disappeared with the return to power in Kiev of a russophile Government. Same Washington abandoned, in principle, its project to install, without consultation with the Russia or else its allies French and German, radar and missile batteries in Czech Republic and Poland. What also relieve Moscow.

This reconciliation is also a direct result, two years after arrival at the White House of