Ukraine, Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, 5 Aug. The West, declaring unconditional support for Ukraine and Taiwan by any means, runs the risk of a full-scale conflict with Russia and China, columnist Simon Jenkins warned in an article for The Guardian. , but does not renounce agreements on military assistance to Taipei. A similar situation, according to Jenkins, is observed with Kyiv, which is told in the West about the need to «defeat Russia», ignoring the fact that increased support for Ukraine leads to a tougher reaction from Moscow. The author of the article recalls that Western interference in the affairs of other states in recent years have been more like imperial wars, resulting in the senseless deaths of thousands of people around the world. «The West must be ready to retreat,» Jenkins concludes. />Orban believes that the West's strategy reduces the chances for peace Earlier, the visit to Taiwan of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi led to an aggravation of relations between the United States and China. Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the United States that «playing with fire risks getting burned.» At the same time, the US administration assured Beijing of its perseverance with the «one China» policy and distanced itself from Pelosi's visit, saying that the speaker makes decisions herself. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
