US President Joe BidenMOSCOW, 6 Apr. Seeking to push NATO to Russia's western frontier at the expense of Ukraine could be the greatest foreign policy mistake the United States made during World War II. Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, made such a statement in an article for The American Conservative. The American authorities, the expert stated, do not learn anything and do not remember anything. The current President Joe Biden and the one-party leadership in Washington are themselves strengthening the dominance of the galaxy of the world's leading economic powers in the Eurasian space — Russia, China, India, Japan, Central and Southeast Asia. Western media, the author notes, non-stop expose Russian leaders and the armed forces of Russia in an unfavorable light, and it seems that Biden is grabbing onto any legend that fits in the slightest bit into his rhetoric. However, ignoring the true reasons for the current situation — NATO's eastward expansion at the expense of Ukraine — will not succeed in changing the strategic reality. Due to the proximity of Ukraine, Moscow has almost unlimited access to reserves of military force, equipment and firepower. With all intentions of avoiding unnecessary collateral damage to the population and infrastructure of Ukraine, the Russian Aerospace Forces and ground forces can methodically and precisely sweep away resistance, McGregor concludes.In Turkey, the goal of Russia's special operation was to break the siege set up by the United States At the end of last year, against the backdrop of worsening relations with the West and aggravation around Ukraine, Moscow handed over draft documents on security guarantees to Brussels and Washington. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc’s military cooperation with the post-Soviet countries, refusing to create bases on their territory, limiting the deployment of strike weapons near the Russian border, removing American nuclear weapons from Europe and not expanding NATO to the east. On January 26, Russia received a written response — Western partners ignored all the main points. Moscow believes that the position of Washington and Brussels runs counter to the OSCE commitments on the indivisibility of security: the United States and NATO defend their interests to the detriment of others. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
