GeofCox on Nostr: npub1u2hl9…4z4d7 geopolitics group It would be naive of course to think that the US ...
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It would be naive of course to think that the US is acting in anything but what it sees as its own interests; however, it's also true that it might be learning a painful lesson. Sanctions have increased the prices of the commodities that drive Russia's economy, especially fossil fuels, while the failure to bring on board most of the world outside Europe and North America have boosted not crippled the Russian economy - as indeed has the war itself, by hugely increasing domestic demand for armaments, etc.
The US may - should - also be worried by Russia's pivot away from Europe and North America to the rest of the world - especially other sanction targets. They are building trade alliances quite capable of economically, and (with China's assistance) technologically out-performing 'the west'.
Europe can and should pursue its own way on Ukraine, because its interests are very different from America's - but the basic economic facts can't be denied for long, and one of those clearly emerging facts seems to be that western policy to date has succeeded in gradually strengthening Russia, not defeating it.
It would be naive of course to think that the US is acting in anything but what it sees as its own interests; however, it's also true that it might be learning a painful lesson. Sanctions have increased the prices of the commodities that drive Russia's economy, especially fossil fuels, while the failure to bring on board most of the world outside Europe and North America have boosted not crippled the Russian economy - as indeed has the war itself, by hugely increasing domestic demand for armaments, etc.
The US may - should - also be worried by Russia's pivot away from Europe and North America to the rest of the world - especially other sanction targets. They are building trade alliances quite capable of economically, and (with China's assistance) technologically out-performing 'the west'.
Europe can and should pursue its own way on Ukraine, because its interests are very different from America's - but the basic economic facts can't be denied for long, and one of those clearly emerging facts seems to be that western policy to date has succeeded in gradually strengthening Russia, not defeating it.