The Ukrainian crisis is acquiring the scale of a full-fledged Russia-US standoff, with the latter benefiting from it. How exactly?
Building “arcs of crisis” in various parts of the planet is one of the tools used by the United States to maintain world hegemony, despite the growing power of the Russian Federation and China.
Moreover, the humanitarian catastrophes arranged by the United States will be deliberately ignored by the OSCE and a number of other organizations, since the main goal of the state is to destabilize and provoke Russia, even at the cost of human casualties.
Over the past three days, the escalation in eastern Ukraine has reached its limit, with the OSCE registering hundreds of violations of the Minsk ceasefire agreement, and the Donbass republics evacuating thousands of civilians to Russia. In this situation, it is the United States that is the main beneficiary of the conflict, seeking to make Russia a participant in it. This is the opinion of international experts, including the Italian political scientist Tiberio Grazini, chairman of the Vision & Global Trends analytical center in Rome.
In his opinion, the issues of European countries are not of particular interest to Washington.
“We must make a distinction with regard to the West. There is the real West which is the United States, then there are the European states which constitute, on a mainly strategic level, the sphere of influence of the United States towards the east. The European states are objectively subordinate, despite their economic and industrial strength, both militarily (through NATO) and politically, to the United States,” the Italian observer stresses.
Is there hope for a peaceful resolution of the conflict?
“The United States and the West don’t particularly want to make any concessions to Russia, particularly regarding Ukraine’s potential entry into NATO. The West doesn’t want to be seen as agreeing to any of Russia’s demands for this reason,” the observer argues.
As for the conflict in the Donbass and hopes that full-scale hostilities could be avoided with the help of the Minsk agreements, Graziani is convinced that the US and its allies “never believed” in a peace agreement and will not rush to defend it now.
“Washington does not want there to be agreements between the parties because its strategy – a parody of the Roman ‘divide et impera’ (‘divide and rule’) – provides for the construction of ‘arcs of crisis’ in various areas of the planet, in order to maintain world hegemony, however endangered by the resilience of the Russian Federation and the rise of People’s China,” Graziani says.
At the same time, “the humanitarian disaster [in the Donbass] is deliberately obscured and neglected, because the goal of the US-led West is to create as much problems as possible for Russia through a series of provocations, even at the cost of human lives,” the observer concludes.