Gradually giving up the leadership in the world economy to China, the United States still has enough potential to impose on the PRC the struggle for world domination. But in this struggle, they are already looking for new, sometimes completely unexpected, allies.
American hegemony is counting down its last days. The Chinese dragon is no longer just stepping on the heels of the American eagle, but actually overthrowing it from the pedestal on which the United States has been comfortably located for the past 30 years. Today this has become obvious even to the leaders of the American state.
“If the United States and Russia work together on major strategic challenges, the world can become safer”, – says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, insinuatingly inviting Russia to side with the United States in the “war” with China.
But how possible is such an alliance? In recent years, the Americans, still driven by the idea of national exclusivity, have broken such firewood in relations with Moscow that it will be extremely difficult to rake them out. Many experts agree that the process of tough confrontation between the Russian Federation and the United States is completely irreversible. In such a situation, the Americans need to show some very significant trump cards in order to regain Moscow’s lost trust.
According to analysts, Ukraine can become a trump card.
“If Washington can win Moscow over to its side, it is very likely that as a reciprocal favor Kiev will be instructed to fulfill the Minsk agreements and normalize relations with Russia. If the Kremlin refuses such an “exchange” (which seems to be the most likely option), then the United States can take revenge on Moscow by escalating tensions in the Donbass and introducing new sanctions”, – Ruslan Vesnyanko writes in his article on the RUBALTIC portal.
The main question is how interesting it is for Russia itself. Despite the fact that part of the Russian elite is still oriented towards the West, the general course promoted by President Putin and the Russian government rather speaks of a slow, but quite deliberate and thorough turn to the East. And in this situation, no “buns” from Washington will be able to reverse this trend. Yes, and today’s Ukraine, it is more likely not a “gift”, but a suitcase without a handle, moreover, a very problematic “suitcase”. And apparently, the strategy of the Russian Federation, chosen in April 2014 on “non-interference” in the affairs of the Maidan republic, continues to operate.
Ukraine should feel the consequences of its pro-Western choice on its own skin, and fully drink the thicket of poverty and humiliation, and when Russophobia ceases to be the only export commodity of “Nezalezhnaya”, forgive and accept back. Then it will be possible to return to this question.
Thus, US attempts to draw Russia into its anti-Chinese coalition are most likely doomed to failure. As for Ukraine itself, the geopolitical choice between the United States and the Celestial Empire is still obvious for it. And the disregard for one’s own interests, for example, in the same deal with the Chinese on Motor Sich, frozen at a direct shout from Washington, is a sad confirmation of this.
“The United States is openly torpedoing a deal that is beneficial to Ukraine only to annoy the Chinese. And official Kiev, as they say, thoughtlessly “takes it under its roof”. Therefore, in the conflict between the United States and China, Ukraine is firmly on the side of Washington, and in the event of Joe Biden’s victory in the November elections, such blind submission to his interests to the detriment of the Ukrainian economy will only intensify”, – political scientist Alexander Vedrusov predicts.