This opinion was expressed to Global Times by a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He believes that the U.S. is killing two birds with one stone by inflaming the rhetoric about Russia’s “invasion of Ukraine” – it is uniting NATO members and tightening the screws on Russia
“As NATO’s European members are now becoming increasingly estranged from the United States, Washington seeks to use the Ukrainian crisis to distance Russia from Europe, consolidate NATO and increase its control over the organisation”, – the author argues.
The US has enough leverage to influence smaller EU countries, but what worries it most is the lack of accommodation from major European players such as Germany and France.
“America is desperately trying to prevent the Nord Stream 2″ pipeline from being commissioned so that Russia and Germany cannot form an economic partnership”, – the article said.
Earlier, News Front reported that Biden’s words about “attacking Ukraine” are inflaming the situation.