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Americans find it difficult to determine whether the Biden administration’s policy decisions regarding Ukraine are the product of a deliberate strategy, extraordinary incompetence, or some combination of both.

Threatening Russia, a nuclear armed power, with regime change and then annunciating a nuclear weapons policy that allows for the United States’ first-strike use of nuclear weapons under “extreme circumstances”—responding to an invasion by conventional forces, or chemical or biological attacks—suggests President Biden and his administration really are out of touch with reality.

American voters instinctively grasp the truth that Americans have nothing to gain from a war with Russia, declared or undeclared. A short trip to almost any supermarket or gas station in America explains why. Last week, inflation hit its highest point in nearly 40 years and gas prices have skyrocketed since the conflict in Ukraine began.

BY Douglas Macgregor

Thanks to the Western media’s non-stop dissemination of unfavorable images of Russia’s leaders and its military, it would appear that President Biden is able to espouse any narrative that suits his purpose. Obscuring the true origins of this tragic conflict, however—NATO’s eastward expansion to include Ukraine—cannot alter strategic reality. Moscow can no more lose the war with Ukraine than Washington could lose a war with Mexico.

Ukraine’s proximity to Russia gives Moscow unconstrained and immediate access to Russia’s reserves of military manpower, equipment, and firepower. Notwithstanding Moscow’s determination to avoid unnecessary collateral damage to Ukraine’s population and infrastructure, Russian Air and Ground Forces are at liberty to methodically destroy Ukrainian resistance in detail.

Russia’s commodity-based economy, with its abundance of food, energy, minerals, and other resources, creates enormous strategic depth for Moscow on the Eurasian landmass. These resources make Moscow Beijing’s natural strategic partner, thus securing Moscow’s Asian border. Moscow’s role in stabilizing Central Asia also makes Russian strength indispensable for the success of China’s Belt and Road Initiative rooted as it is in the historical Silk Road, linking the economies of East Asia to Europe, Africa, and the Near East.

At the same time, Washington’s frequent use of financial sanctions have severely weakened, if not wrecked trust in the U.S. led global financial system. It is far more likely that countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa will either bypass sanctions to buy discounted Russian and Belorussian commodities or simply refuse to enforce them.

To minimize the impact of financial sanctions imposed by Washington and the European Union, Russia began “de-dollarizing” its economy years ago. Unburdened by the kind of odious sovereign debt that plagues Washington, Moscow has been able to stabilize the ruble with interest rate increases, and links to gold reserves. Now, de-dollarization is spreading. China, India, and Saudi Arabia are introducing de-dollarization policies as an anti-sanction measure. Saudi Arabia’s offer to sell oil in Chinese yuan raises real questions about the future of the petrodollar.

Despite Japan’s public display of solidarity with Washington, Tokyo really made its bed with Eurasia when Tokyo signed on to membership in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Program (RCEP), the world’s largest trade bloc. Predictably, Tokyo already declared it will not ban Russian oil and natural gas imports and Japan will continue to work with Russia on important joint economic projects.

Europeans breathed a huge sigh of relief on April 1, when the Russian Government announced that Moscow will not cut off sales to European buyers of Russian natural gas, as long as buyers set up accounts with Gazprombank, where payments in foreign currency will be converted to rubles. Still, Europeans will soon have to decide whether to reject trade and cooperation with governments in Eurasia that resist Western liberalism, with its universalist pretensions, or confront the specter of civil unrest at home.

Russia’s enormous share of energy and food in European and global markets always meant war between Russia and Ukraine would be a nightmare scenario. It was no surprise when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned on April 2 of the serious worldwide consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine, saying, “We must ensure that this war comes to an end quickly.”

Scholz is right. Price surges in energy and food will now lead to expanded drilling for oil and gas around the world, as well as increased farming for wheat, barley, and corn outside of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. But these actions will not compensate for the looming structural commodity deficits or supply chain problems affecting fertilizer and metals.

Washington’s ruling class has a long record of misjudging strategic reality. Seeking to advance NATO through Ukraine to Russia’s western border may well be the worst blunder in American foreign policy since the end of World War II, but Washington learns nothing and remembers nothing. After the defeat of Anglo-French military power in June 1940, the combined power of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Imperial Japan was unassailable. Had the three remained in alliance, neither Washington, nor any combination of powers, could have challenged them for decades.

President Biden and Washington’s uniparty are fostering the domination of the Eurasian landmass by a collective arrangement of the world’s leading economic powers including Russia, China, India, Japan, Central and Southeast Asia, thereby restoring the strategic condition Washington feared in 1940. American voters would prefer that Washington focus on shoring up American economic prosperity, controlling inflation and restoring the rule of law, not war with Russia.

President Biden would be wise to follow Scholz’s example and work to end the dangerous conflict in Ukraine. Even so, for the indefinite future the use of U.S. military power in the Eastern Hemisphere will now involve the potential for war with more than one first-class power in more than one region of the world at a time. Well done, Mr. President.

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/bidens-folly-in-ukraine/

It has to be noted that "appearing to not know the purpose of anything is a great ploy to do something sneaky and claim innoncence." The main ANGLO-SAXON (US/UK) game is to destroy Russia and China, but this cannot be officially stated as such by the US Administration. So the way to go about it is to "appear" to be bumbling like idiots while staying the course on the plan — which is, say ALOUD it with me, to DESTROY RUSSIAN AND CHINA...

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BY Vladimir Platov

The events in Kazakhstan conspired by the United States and the UK in January and the ongoing pressure of external factors experienced by the Central Asian region, primarily from the United States and a number of its Western allies, indicate the presence of continuing threats here. The escalation of US-Chinese conflict, and the special military operation of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine that started on February 24, have caused these threats to become even worse. In such circumstances, the region becomes one of the key platforms for the confrontation of the United States with Russia and China. The main aspect of this confrontation is the information warfare. Pro-Western non-governmental organizations and the media, sponsored by the United States and their allies, are taking active and systematic propaganda activities, spreading sharp criticism of Russia and China, and their integration projects implemented in the Central Asia.

At the same time, the “Western nations” do not hide their willingness to launch the “second front” against Russia and China in Central Asia. And a clear evidence of this intent is a high-level meeting held on February 28 online in the “C5+1” format which was urgently convened with the participation of the following foreign affairs authorities: Kazakhstan’s Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Kyrgyzstan’s Ruslan Kazakbaev, Tajikistan’s Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmenistan’s Rashid Meredov, Uzbekistan’s Abdulaziz Kamilov, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. As part of the context of the explicitly anti-Russia resolution on Ukraine initiated by the White House prior to the UN’s consideration, this online meeting had a clear goal to persuade the Central Asian states to change their political position to be closer to the United States and have them separated from Russia. After the countries in this region demonstrated their unwillingness to accept Washington’s position and the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov even expressed support for Russia’s special operation in Ukraine and Russia’s unhesitating actions to protect the civilian population of Donbass, the “Western nations” have shown their true face. In particular, the clear manifestation of this attitude was the proposal issued on March 1, by one of the members of the British Parliament, Margaret Hodge, who proposed to introduce sanctions against Kazakhstan “for supporting Putin.”

In this context, the West, led by Washington, is continuing its strategy aimed at destabilizing the situation in the EAEU countries. And the events in Kazakhstan which took place in January, can be considered as a “reconnaissance battle”, since Kazakhstan remains the most important regional resource of opportunities for slacking the situation in Russia – the other republics in the region, due to many objective reasons, have fewer opportunities to influence Russia, compared to Kazakhstan’s.

The Western nations are seeking to form a counterweight to Russia and China which will be primarily built around the value and ideological categories of modern international relations. At the same time, the sovereignty and independence of Central Asian countries are always mentioned by the western countries in the context of the “threat” allegedly posed by their cooperation with Russia, China and, to some extent, Iran.

The western nations cannot conceal the fact that their provocative policy is caused by the obvious degradation of traditional American partnerships in South Asia, which causes Washington to urgently seek cooperation with key Central Asian countries in managing the global energy market and taking control over the world trade routes. In addition, the United States needs some points of support to maintain their presence in Iraq and Syria, which points are still remaining, and in the Middle East and Asia in general. As there are fewer opportunities for establishing military bases in Iraq and in the Gulf states, Washington again needs some military anchor points in Central Asia from which it would be possible to exercise control over the region itself and the adjacent space.

Therefore, the United States have been fueling unrest in the areas and these anchor points using controlled NGOs, the media and the capabilities of American intelligence services, which they use to initiate conflicts and to exert pressure in the field of regional security, which subsequently poses a further threat to Russia, as well as to China.

In particular, the example of such an area is the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan, where another escalation began in late November 2021, and has continued since then, and the leadership of Tajikistan does not seem to take any measures to find a solution to this problem.

In addition, there is a long-lasting conflict in the boundary area between Tajikistan with Kyrgyzstan, where shooting periodically occurs. No trend towards a positive, comprehensive resolution of the conflict is seen there too, at least within the next few years.

The potential for conflicts exists also in the Fergana Valley, and it is associated, in particular, with religious radicalism. The events which happened in 2005 in Andijan are considered to be of relatively local nature, but there is a potential risk of this conflict to continue, and it may be easily provoked to break out.

Besides the Fergana Valley, in Uzbekistan there is also another problematic area – Karakalpakstan with all its local problems, where the ethnic factor, in particular, can become a basis for the conflict. The United States has already prepared certain “forces” to incite this conflict, among which, for example, are corresponding online resources, which are backed by ethno-separatist activists in Europe, Turkey, as well as in Kazakhstan, the proponents of “Karakalpak independence.”

Some areas in Turkmenistan are also problematic, where the potential for the conflicts has a multi-layered nature.

It’s been almost three months since the crisis situation in Kazakhstan in January 2022 took place, when the radicals backed by the intelligence services tried to organize a coup, the seedlings of a neo-Russophobia are emerging again in the republic, with clear participation of the West. In particular, it was Kazakhstan where the largest anti-Russian rally in CIS took place and it was permitted by Kazakhstan authorities, although after Russia started a special operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Kazakhstan leadership has adhered to a policy of neutrality and called on the both parties of the conflict to have peaceful negotiations. The rally in Alma-Ata on March 6 was marked with the demonstration of Ukrainian flags and anti-Russian slogans. In fact, it began with greetings known to be used by pro-Hitler Ukrainian nationalists. This event was “coordinated” by the recently appointed Akim (head) of Alma-Ata, Yerbolat Dosayev, the organizer of this rally was anti-Russian political activist Daulet Abylkasymov, and one of the key speakers was the head of the US-funded Liberty Foundation, Galym Ageleulov. The nationalists have used their main weapon against the Russians — “language patrols”, seeking to ban the Russian language in Kazakhstan. These radicals visit retail stores, organizations, government structures and try to force others to speak only Kazakh language, which is illegal, since Russian language still has the status of the language of interethnic communication in the country.

In the context of convincing advantages of Russian weapons over the US ones, which was demonstrated by Moscow’s special operation aimed at denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, the United States and its Western allies are clearly afraid to start armed confrontation with Russia. That is why they have been trying to create threats along the perimeter of the Russian borders, hoping that such actions will add problems for Moscow. However, both Washington and the “western nations” do not take into account that the era of the unipolar world is the past, as people in all countries have seen by numerous examples the true – aggressive and expansionist – goals of the US, and they are not ready to support this false American policy.

Vladimir Platov, expert on the Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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