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?
it feels to me that the escalation in Ukraine had un urgent character for the US. They have been seeing the economic giant China growing year after year interpenetrating EVERY country with sound investments (ports, airports, hospitals, dams etc) and there is no time… but they not only underestimated Russia and Putin in particular, but the whole situation altogether. It is obvious that the economic agreements between Russia - China, the immediate integration in China’s equivalent of swift and others, that were put in place within a week(!), were being prepared for years, at least since 2014… when i learned about the situation in Donbass i wondered why it took Russia so many years to intervene… only sensible answer that came to mind was that the timing was not correct. Perhaps back then Russia wasnt able to handdle the sanctions so remarkably well. I dont know if US knew about those plans, but even if they knew they couldnt stop them. What amazed me though is how the rest of the major players in geopolitical arena reacted, almost immediately siding with Russia - China. That i wouldnt expect and perhaps neither the US. West appeared quite isolated very soon. When boris johnson went to saudi arabia to ask for oil he got a no. At the same time Bassar al Ashad visited the UAE. And at the moment they are pretty much isolated. Africa, India and others side with the coalition, most recently Turkey. I believe that US were too arrogant to see in time the shifting, typical of a dying empire. A comrade here mentioned in a comment that the US after 3 generations of domination totally lost sight of reality. I would agree. And they are still in denial, its like they believe their own propaganda. President Bassar al Ashad’s speech about the whole empire’s history and how it has alaways been hand to hand with nazism was something else. Speeches like this have never been heard before from presidents. Such public exposure. He also said that they cannot actually quarantee anything to anybody apart from their tight interests, turning the world into a jungle where they only win. And since by now almost half of the world’s countries have at least felt it, they decided to grab the chance. Sound choice. It seems that the other capitalists decided to get rid of their bullying, at least.