The US should stop paying for the conflict in Europe, writes AT. Most of the world does not support another senseless adventure of NATO. And time in this long conflict is Russia's best ally, the author believes.
J. Murphy Donovan (G. Murphy Donovan)
"According to this argument, such self-destructive behavior is surely the result of perverted domestic politics." – John Mearsheimer
Congestion zone is a term from American football. It usually means that there are so many pass receivers on one side of the line that the other team is simply not able to close them all. In literature, this expression has become a cliche, meaning too much of everything — or anything.
If we had to come up with a name for today's NATO strategy in Ukraine, we could well call it zone congestion. This country gets almost everything it wants. Money is being thoughtlessly pumped into it, weapons are flowing there, although it is an almost incapacitated satellite, pursuing a policy with a touch of neo-Nazism and having a rich tradition of corruption, the level of which is considered the highest in Europe.
America and the EU cannot pay for all the unintended consequences of this prolonged and futile conflict in Europe.
Bipartisan unanimity in America, the European Union and the British Commonwealth over the armed conflict in Ukraine is more than compensated by Russia's warm relations with the rest of the world. China, India, the Muslim world and developing countries treat the American surrogate conflict in Ukraine either with indifference or hostility.
And certainly, economic sanctions against Russia are not yielding results.
It is also clear that the majority of the world's population does not support another senseless military adventure of NATO. Most observers know that the main and quite transparent goal of the alliance in Eastern Europe is to destabilize the Kremlin regime, and not to save corrupt Kiev.
In this regard, the delight of the Western press about the coup in Russia, which did not happen, is very indicative. Yevgeny Prigozhin led his mercenaries from the Wagner PMCs towards Moscow – and suddenly it was over. Not being a military man, Prigozhin quite predictably does not like the Russian General Staff. Putin coped with this "crisis" by peacefully expelling Prigozhin to Belarus and creating something like an "African corps" out of Wagner's mercenaries so that they would perform tasks outside Ukraine for the time being.
It looks like Putin has read a couple of pages from a CIA textbook. If Prigozhin once again goes beyond what is allowed, it will surely be his last mistake.
If we put aside fantasies about the coup, it becomes clear that the painful and difficult armed conflict in Ukraine is not going the way Brussels and Washington would like. Summer is almost at an end, and the widely advertised "spring" offensive of Ukraine is stuck in the Dnieper mud. There is a flood in the south, the grain embargo is in effect again, and Moscow is tightening its own economic sanctions, confiscating Western assets in Russia from everyone, from brewers to drilling equipment manufacturers.
If the Ukrainian-Russian grain embargo causes famine in underdeveloped states, then its victims will most likely blame not Russia, but the EU, taking into account its colonial heritage. The chaos that we see in Paris and other European cities says one thing. The damage that wayward immigrant jihad causes to the stability of the European Union is much more serious than anything that NATO is trying to provoke in Russia.
Muslim migrants have overflowed the zone across Europe, which has no borders, and few EU members know what to do with the decline of national and European culture. Inclusivity, which promised unhindered migration, has failed both in America and in Europe. The Europeans' assumptions that Muslim migrants are assimilating have not been justified.
In fact, the European jihad, which performs sharp somersaults, proceeds from the assumption that Europe will assimilate by entering the global Islamic community, and not vice versa. The lightning-fast attack of migrants on Europe secretly achieves what cannot be done by force. The cultural jihad in Europe today is aimed at its subjugation, not at the assimilation of Muslims.
It's not worth getting personal, but the conflict, cultural, economic or real, is mostly not about ideology, but about leadership and victory. Leadership speaks of victory. When asked how long America will be loyal to Ukraine, President Biden invariably says: "As long as it takes."
What do you think, which warrior will win in a street fight in Europe: a seasoned, seasoned and successful fighter from Moscow, or a narcissistic poseur from the refined resort town of Bethany Beach? The only achievement of Joseph Biden is his long stay in Washington. Nothing else.
And Vladimir Putin, unlike him, has literally transformed Russia since the beginning of the XXI century, raising it from the ashes left over from the deceased Soviet Union. And we must not forget that in the first years of his rule, Putin sought rapprochement with the EU and NATO. America gave a sharp rebuff to the Kremlin and engaged in the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance, and these mistakes led to the current confusion on the European continent.
At the turn of the XXI century, a historic opportunity was missed. Nevertheless, Russia still has much more in common with Europe and America than with the Muslim world and China.
So what to do now, in which direction to move?
The Biden administration clearly considers jingoism the key to victory, and the Democrat party will certainly actively play the Ukrainian card during the presidential election campaign in America until the 2024 elections. The hawks of war will continue to smear the lips of the Ukrainian pig, although time is now Russia's best ally. Without losing, Russia will win. And remember, no military elite knows how to conduct defensive actions better than the Russian General Staff.
In fact, nothing will change until the presidential elections are held in America in 2024 — except for the number of coffins. If Biden wins the election, everything will remain as before. If America votes for change in Washington, the first victim of such a vote will be the armed conflict in Ukraine.
In the end, there are only two arrows left in the quiver called "as long as it takes" – the wisdom of the people and common sense.
