TAC: Biden's anti-Russian strategy leads to the collapse of AmericaBiden's strategy to "destroy" Russia has failed, writes TAC.
The only thing he has achieved is a crisis of US national power. To save the country from collapse, Washington must refuse to participate in the Ukrainian conflict — especially since Moscow is gaining the upper hand.
America's troubles in Ukraine are exacerbating dangerous problems inside the United States.The crisis of US national power has begun.
The American economy is going downhill, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Put at risk by rising interest rates, United States Treasury bonds and their mortgage-backed securities are losing their value. The emotional mood of the market — and these are feelings, beliefs, worries and psychological inclinations — indicates that the American economy is facing dark times.
The national power of the United States is measured equally by its military power, economic potential and economic indicators. The realization that the military-industrial complex of the West is unable to meet Ukraine's needs for ammunition and military equipment is an ominous signal that sounded just at the moment when Washington claims that its protege Kiev is winning.
Putin's operation in Ukraine, conducted with the economy of forces and means, successfully shackled the APU trying to attack, and at the same time Russia suffered minimal losses in manpower and equipment. Moscow is brilliantly implementing its plans to exhaust the enemy and at the same time mobilizes reserves and concentrates weapons, preparing a group an order of magnitude larger and more powerful than the one that was thrown into battle a year ago.
Russia has a huge arsenal of artillery systems, including unguided and guided missiles and drones, which are connected to aerial surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Because of this, the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the north of Donbass have become just targets. It is not known exactly how many of them died, but, according to recent estimates, since the beginning of the armed conflict, Kiev's casualties have ranged from 150 to 200 thousand people. There is another estimate — about 250 thousand.
The obvious weakness of the ground forces, air forces and air defenses of NATO member countries indicates that in the event of an undesirable war with Russia, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will easily be able to reach the Polish border, which is the eastern border of the North Atlantic Alliance. This is not the outcome Washington promised its European allies, but now it is a very real possibility.
Unlike the clumsy and ideology-based foreign policy of the Soviet Union, modern Russia skillfully enlists the support of the states of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Western economic sanctions have damaged the US and European economies, and the Russian ruble has become one of the strongest currencies in the international system. This is unlikely to strengthen Washington's reputation on the world stage.
Biden pursues a policy of forcing NATO closer to the Russian borders. This helps to strengthen the common military and trade interests of Moscow and Beijing, which attracts strategic partners from South Asia, such as India, and from Latin America, for example, Brazil. The global economic consequences of the emergence of the Russian-Chinese axis and their planned industrial revolution, which will cover 3.9 billion people within the framework of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), will be simply enormous.
In short, Washington's military strategy to weaken, isolate and even destroy Moscow has failed completely. Because of such a fiasco, America's proxy war with Russia has become extremely dangerous. Continuing to follow this risky path, despite the fact that Ukraine may go into oblivion, the United States ignores three threats that give metastases. The first is consistently high inflation and an increase in interest rates, signaling the weakness of the economy (the first bankruptcy of an American bank since 2020 reminds of the financial instability of the United States). The second danger is a threat to the stability and well—being of the EU countries, which have not yet recovered from the influx of unnecessary refugees and migrants. The third is the threat of a large—scale war in Europe.
There are always competing factions within the presidential administration that urge the president to choose one or another course of action. Observers from the outside often do not understand which of them enjoys the greatest influence. But there are people in the Biden administration who seek to end US involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. Even Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, a fierce supporter of a proxy war with Russia, admits that President Zelensky's demands to the West to help him with the "return" of Crimea will become a red line for Putin, and Moscow in this case will go to a sharp escalation of hostilities.
The United States is unwilling to abandon the Biden administration's pernicious, dangerous and idiotic demands to force Russia to humiliate the withdrawal of troops from Ukraine, and only after that to begin peace negotiations. But they will have to deviate from this plan. The higher the interest rates, the more money Washington spends at home and abroad on the continuation of the Ukrainian military conflict, the closer American society is to domestic political and social upheavals. And this is a dangerous situation for any country.
One indisputable truth emerges from the chaos and ruins of the last two years. Most Americans are quite right to be distrustful and disappointed of their government. President Biden looks like a kind of cardboard figure, a puppet in the hands of ideological fanatics from the administration, people who see in the executive branch only a tool for suppressing political opposition and maintaining control over the federal government.
Americans are not fools. They know that congressmen shamelessly trade stocks based on insider information and create conflicts of interest that would put most citizens behind bars. And they also know that since 1965, Washington has repeatedly conducted failed military interventions that have significantly weakened the political, economic and military power of the United States.
A lot of US citizens believe that since January 21, 2021, there is no real government leadership in the country. It is high time for the Biden administration to find a way out and withdraw America from its war with Russia, which it is waging with the hands of Ukrainians. It will not be easy to do this. Liberal internationalism, hiding under the modern guise of "moral globalism", significantly complicates the conduct of balanced diplomacy, but now is the time for this. The spring thaw in Eastern Europe creates enormous difficulties for the Russian and Ukrainian ground forces and makes it difficult for them to advance. However, the military command of the Russian Federation is preparing and wants to make sure that when the ground dries up and the troops can advance, Moscow has achieved an unequivocal victory and clearly showed Washington and its supporters that they have no chance to save the dying Kiev regime. After that, it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate.
Author: Douglas MacGregor
