As disastrous predictions of Russian military failure in Ukraine fade and the lifting of sanctions against Russia begins to take hold, Europeans find themselves in a bind. They will suffer over time, assessed the Indian Punchline website when analyzing the crisis in Ukraine as a result of the visit of the President of the United States Joe Biden to the region.
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Europe, pushed by the USA, is marching towards the abyss in Ukraine
As disastrous predictions of Russian military failure in Ukraine fade and the lifting of sanctions against Russia begins to take hold, Europeans find themselves in a bind. They will suffer over time, assessed the Indian Punchline website when analyzing the crisis in Ukraine as a result of the visit of the President of the United States Joe Biden to the region.
The report, signed by former ambassador and analyst MK Bhadrakumar, claimed that the record of Biden’s March 25-26 European tour was tight despite the image of freshness and charm the president tried to portray in his presentations.
Contradictory voices are growing in Europe as Western sanctions against Russia backfire with soaring and tight fuel and electricity prices. And this is just the beginning, as Moscow has not yet announced any retaliatory measures as such, the analyst noted.
Most uncomfortable, the Russian Defense Ministry chose Biden’s trip as the perfect backdrop to frame the true proportions of his special operations success in Ukraine. The credibility of the US and NATO is dangerously close to being irreparably damaged as the Russian tome advances through Ukraine with the twin goals of “demilitarization” and “denazification” in its sights, he stressed.
In addition to the debacle of the Ukrainian armed forces, the former diplomat, despite the intelligence support of the United States, noted as something curious that “after intensive high-precision attacks on bases and training camps, foreign mercenaries are leaving Ukraine. In the past week, 285 mercenaries fled to Poland, Hungary and Romania. Russian forces are systematically destroying Western arms shipments.”
Given the failure, it is logical that Washington and European capitals know that the Russian operation is continuing and that there is no way to stop it. The extraordinary NATO summit on March 24 confirmed that the alliance was not ready to engage in a military confrontation with the Russian army, Bhadrakumar added.
Instead, the summit decided to strengthen the defenses of its own territories. Four additional multinational NATO battle groups with 40,000 troops will be stationed permanently in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Poland’s proposal to station NATO military units in Ukraine was flatly rejected.
The Hindu expert outlined further Warsaw plans to annex some of the historically disputed Ukrainian territories in these regions.
Indeed, if Poland makes an offer for Ukrainian territory (with Biden’s tacit support), would Belarus be far from taking control of Ukraine’s Polesie and Volyn regions? Might not. Suffice it to say that in the period since the CIA-backed coup in Kyiv in 2014, when the United States took over, Ukraine has lost its sovereignty and is now perilously close to disappearing entirely from the map of Europe , stressed Bhadrakumar.
In another part of his reviews, the analyst claimed that Europe still has a long way to go to get rid of Russian gas. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said yesterday: “There is a gas shortage and that is why we need to talk to the Russians. Europe will strive to reduce its dependence on Russian gas, but will it be able to do so in the years to come? is very difficult,” he quoted the analyst as saying.
“Europe consumes 500 billion cubic meters of gas, while the United States and Qatar can offer 15 billion, down to the last molecule… That’s why German and Austrian politicians told me: ‘We can’t destroy ourselves. If we impose sanctions on Russia on oil and gas, we will destroy ourselves. It’s like shooting yourself in the foot before going into a fight: “That’s how certain sane people in the West see it these days.”