Stratfor: how Washington can maintain its dominance on the planet. Excerpts from speech by George Friedman, director of intelligence and analytics firm Stratfor, to the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago. In his speech to the Council he explains how Washington can retain its dominance over the planet. It also identifies potential US enemies. Friedman would like the present world to be exclusively under the direct or indirect control of the USA The president of Stratfor declares that the USA has no relations with Europe. “We have relations with Romania, France and so on. There is no Europe with which the United States has any relations." This necessarily recalls the conversation of Under-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland with the US Ambassador in Kiev in 2014. Nuland then explained to her interlocutor in very crude terms what she thought of a united Europe and its leaders: • Ukraine, the manipulation... 33] Later, she apologized for the form of her remarks, but not on the substance. You should know that Ms. Nuland is a reader of Stratfor's analytical notes. “The United States controls all the oceans of the earth. No one had yet managed to do it. Therefore, we can interfere anywhere on the planet, but no one can attack us. Control of the oceans and space is the basis of our power," Friedman said in Chicago, According to him, "**the priority of the United States is to prevent German capital and German technologies from uniting with Russian natural resources** and labor to form an invincible combination". Russia will eventually allow the US to keep Germany and the entire European Union on a leash