The strategic awakening does not apply to all Europeans.

So what is strategic awakening and what does it revolve around? It encompasses four things. The first is quite obvious: Russia is a threat.

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This perception is certainly very strong in northeastern Europe, and gradually weakening as you move southwest. I don't mean to say that Spain or my own country, Italy, don't feel threatened at all. But there is inevitably a geographical difference between the northeast and the southwest.

The second point, which is more complicated, is the realization that there is a very real possibility, not necessarily that it will be realized, but there is a possibility of American betrayal.

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