From what I can see, America is scheming to cook up a scenario where China and Russia will wage pointless, fratricidal wars against their renegade provinces, both getting weaker in the process, and unable to help each other against the common enemy.
Let’s see how they respond.
Tensions are always high before the Olympics hosted by Russia or China. Russo-Georgian conflict started on about the same day as 2008 Olympics. China is introducing sanctions on “businesses and financial sponsors associated with supporters of Taiwan independence”, as it doesn’t want these to continue making profit in China while undermining it. Main corporate sponsor of the ruling party was already fined, after which the chairman publicly stated he is not for independence. As long as Taiwan doesn’t declare independence the situation is under control although the US is busy creating as many provocations as possible. The situation in Ukraine seems more problematic because Ukraine can force Russia to directly intervene. Regardless, other than being a distraction, it’s not going to help the US if a nuclear war breaks out. And if it doesn’t, both Russia and China can handle these potential conflicts on their own. Of course, the US is good at brainwashing people and portraying others as aggressors and themselves as liberators and compassionate concerned third party. But they still need to cash that out before they collapse.
Actually, if it comes to a choice between collapse of the fiat currencies, the entire American economy, and the entire Western civilisation due to wokeism, and nuclear war, I think they might find the latter preferable.
I agree, and I just realized that my previous sentence can be misread. I meant that a limited conflict in Ukraine isn’t going to be of much help to the US in case of a nuclear war. It’s a distraction, sure, but Russian nuclear forces are going to be on stand by as usual. The only thing the US can get is more material for portraying its enemies as aggressors, and more opportunity for sanctions, but that’s kinda redundant at this point. Sooner or later America needs to make another major move, and since it’s running out of time, it has to be soon.
Limited conflict in Ukraine is not really possible in the long run. If a limited conflict ensues, Americans and their European allies will just park more dangerous strategic weapons on border of Russia, since they will not militarily intervene in Ukraine. And that will reduce the nuclear potential of Russia (e.g. they are putting faster and faster missiles in the anti-balistic missile containers placed in Romania etc, and are very close to destroying Russia’s modern ICBMs in the first phase of their trajectory from main Russian ICBM silos – this is why Russia freaked out about these containerised platforms deployment – as you can change the missile inside and nobody can tell from the outside that it was changed). So if they place more dangerous weapons like that around Russia, it will be forced to make a preemptive strike. Thus, limited war in Ukraine is only a stepping stone to a nuclear war.
But do they even need a conflict in Ukraine to do that? They already deployed the system in South Korea and didn’t need much of a pretext other than the usual ‘country x is a threat’.
Which X? NK, R or C?🤔😉
Yeah but they are playing a very careful game now, salami tactics hoping Russians won’t crush them as the process is too slow. If there was a pretext of actual war (in Ukraine or elsewhere) they would speed up the process by orders of magnitude and have all the media/huge percentage of Western population on their side.
Murica is pushing deluded Ukranians into futile attempt to reclaim Krim if I got it right?
No, Krim is overflowing with Russian military hardware and soldiers, no way to take it, I think even Ukraine gave up on it except in the obligatory rhetoric. The real action is happening on the border/ceasefire line between Ukraine and Donbas (separated Donetsk and Lugansk Republics/regions). Ukraine has 150000 soldiers there in WW1-like conditions (sleeping in muddy trenches etc) for half a year and they are constantly exchanging artillery, small arms and UAV fire with the other side, so Donbas (most industrialized part of Ukraine btw) is pretty ruined. This whole thing is about the claim that Russians parked on the border (western side of Russia bordering Donbas) in order to invade Ukraine and take Donbas. It won’t happen as Donbas had a vote (probably staged btw) where like 75% of population stated they want to remain part of Ukraine and not join Russia. So Russia supports them in every way (they can easily get Russian citizenship and emigrate to Russia for example), but won’t integrate them. Crimea on the other hand is gone and nobody thinks, not even NATO, that Ukraine will ever get it back.