I’ve seen different perspectives say its either a winning strategy ( they stand to alienate little brother Europe from daddy US, and possibly make them dependent on US natural gas ), or that its a losing strategy ( that in the long term it will only stand to unite China, Russia, India, etc more closely, contribute to de-dollarization, etc)
Do you think the west’s strategy is sound, or are they merely making mistakes typical of dying empires?
Europe can’t survive on US gas and its impossible for the US to provide gas as cheap as the Russians’; this will weaken Europe hurting its strongest ally. Also probably this op was started 20 years ago when Russia was more isolated since China wasn’t as powerful and all of the Middle East was being rampaged by them, now there are socialist economical blocks, which puts Russia in a position where it can counter attack without suffering as much, they probably didn’t change the idea much and are thinking only in short term gains instead of structured well planned long term strategy, as capitalism usually does.