‘NATO Lost’: Ukraine War Backfires, Brings Russia and China Closer Together
Prof. Glenn Diesen on BreakthroughNews
I discussed on BreakthroughNews how NATO lost the Ukraine War. NATO has also discredited itself as a security provider by provoking the war, rejecting what were initially reasonable Russian security concerns, and then boycotting all diplomacy and negotiations for three years. In 2014, NATO based the coup in Kiev despite knowing that pulling Ukraine into NATO’s orbit would likely trigger a war and only 20% of Ukrainians even wanted NATO membership. From the Minsk peace agreement to the Istanbul negotiations, every path to peace since was rejected and sabotaged by NATO due to maximalist objectives. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, NATO could not defeat Russia on the battleground, it could not collapse the Russian economy, and it could not isolate Russia in the international system. Russia has now aligned itself closer with China and a just peace in Ukraine is likely not achievable. For the next decades, Russia’s economic connectivity will be directed to the East and its increasingly powerful military will be primarily tasked to deter the West. While the Ukrainians suffered the most in this war, Europe also suffered a great defeat as its security, economy, political stability, and geopolitical relevance will continue to decline.
A very appropriate consequence to this proxy war! The U.S. and NATO have gallons of blood on their hands as this war should never have happened! Many people dead and wounded all for American hubris and hegemony! The West is truly sick! Viva the Russian Federation!
There is another factor which the US led West to have failed to factor in, that being, that Russia and China are now actually intricably linked, as Russia is now a major market for Chinese goods as China gets shut out of Western markets through both tariffs and sanctions, and Russia is now China's major raw material and energy supplier, without which the Chinese economy will be crippled, as the West continues to target China too.
If the situation were ever to arise, that by some miracle the West were to get an upper hand over Russia, China would most certainly militarily step in, to avoid becoming cut off from both their market and critical supplier.