![]() So there is no quick end to the defensive, but aggressive, confrontation that the West has unleashed. The West is losing the advantage it has held for five centuries to siphon off the wealth of the entire world by imposing its political and economic order and establishing its cultural dominance, mainly by brute force. This weakening not only infuriates the imperial-cosmopolitan elites (US President Joe Biden and his ilk) but also frightens the imperial-national elites (such as his predecessor Donald Trump). This crisis is accompanied by an unprecedentedly rapid shift in the balance of power in the world in favour of the global majority, driven economically by China and partly by India, with Russia as the military and strategic anchor. But such an outcome would only be possible if we are able to break the West’s will to support the Kiev junta, and use it against us, forcing the US-led bloc into a strategic retreat. Meanwhile, hostility from the West will continue it will support a slow-burning guerrilla civil war.Ī more attractive option is the liberation and reunification of the east and south, and the imposition of capitulation on the remnants of Ukraine with complete demilitarization, creating a buffer, friendly state. These regions were heavily subsidised even in Soviet times. And the territories of today’s Ukraine, especially the central and western ones, will attract resources – both human and financial. We will be stuck with a wasteful focus on the West. ‘Peace is unlikely in the near future’: Here’s what Russian experts think about Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensiveĪny of these options, especially the last one, will distract Russia from the much-needed shift of its spiritual, economic, military and political centre to the East of Eurasia. It would take more than a decade to “re-educate” them. The situation could be worse if we liberate the whole of Ukraine at the cost of monstrous sacrifices and are left with ruins anda population that mostly hates us. But it would still leave a part of the country with an even more embittered ultra-nationalist population pumped full of weapons – a bleeding wound that threatens inevitable complications, such as another war. A slightly greater success would be to liberate the whole of eastern and southern Ukraine within a year or two. It is becoming increasingly clear that our clash with the West will not end with a partial – let alone a crushing – victory in Ukraine.Įven if we completely liberate the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson oblasts, it will be a minimal victory. Our country, and its leadership, seems to me to be facing a difficult choice. The following piece has been translated and lightly edited. RT has decided it would be beneficial for our readers to read it in full.
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