America and the World: Russia and Europe

I think it goes without saying that we have been closer with Europe than any other part of the world. It makes sense because we have pretty similar ideals and social norms.  This partnership with Europe is really important, it stabilizes our economy and our political alliances. It may not occur to many Americans that we need to keep up this relationship because we rely on Europe as much as they rely on us. If Europe's economy collapsed, ours probably would take a large downturn if not fail itself. Something that would be really good for Europe, and in turn good for us, is if they became a more 'unified' EU. They are sharing a very small space in the world and their governments need to communicate better. I think they are moving towards this now, France and Germany seem to be getting over their bitterness towards each other and really coming together. Europe also really needs to start considering Turkey a part of them, invite them into the EU. Turkey is a key nation for us to be supporting. It would be much better for America if they did not go further into the politics in the Middle East, because we are on bad terms with the Middle East right now. Russia is also a big part of Europe that people often forget about. We may have been in a 'battle' with them for a very long time, but now that time is over and we need to kind of lobby them towards the western world because their values and political systems would fit in much better than they do in Asia.