Crisis of Captialism
From 2003 to 2007 was the world in a depression, recession or boom? The answer is none of the above because we were outside of the Kondratieff Cycle. The world economy was on a "war-footing" which indicated an eventual crisis of capitalism.
The potential escalation of this crisis into wider military conflict needs to be controlled or delayed until China has assembled a competitive SDI shield. The EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) created by an atomic space test is currently uninsurable. If that continues to be so, a star wars conflict between two SDI shield is a progressive step despite the dangers. The liberation of the orbits from commercial satellites following such a conflict would open up the world to a new possibility of running such tests. It would be much preferable to be run tests without pursuing any competitive SDI scenario but it is not clear how it would be financially or politically possible at the moment.
Europe should therefore position itself eventually to focus on measures that will maximize its own strategic defense under a Sino (Chinese) European SDI defense shield. Following the Olympics of 2008 a willingness of China to accept its position as centre of a new global alliance is emerging. The decline of American power also mirrors ancient China in one critical respect. In inventing a new type of explosion (atomic), America cannot apply the logical progressive engineering steps to contain it in space for propulsion and peaceful means. That is coupled with a restrictive and incorrect star-travel theory.
Crisis of Captialism continued
If wider disengagement from American world development plans is pursued it would require the overseeing of two corrective measures to revise recent world history. That would be to enable scientific advance in both the communication and propulsion systems targeted at faster-than-light successes.
1. MK-ULTRA and the assimilation of the Laing-Szasz dispute
2. Counter the "1945 Ripple effect" (as regards nuclear secrets).
Europe's long-term strategic military defense interests are likely to be under a future Sino European SDI defense shield if America does not mend its ways. The rise of Russia as an intermediary stage before competitive SDI shields is both an opportunity and a serious concern for Europe. Should that SDI shield deployment stage not be reached, planning national survival is irrelevant due to the form of global identity that would arise after a global nuclear conflict. It is likely that the European enlargement of 2004 will be largely reversed if NATO engages in large-scale conventional or limited nuclear conflict with Russia during this intermediary stage. It is more likely to be Western Europe than "all of New Europe" that shelters under a future Sino European SDI defense shield.