If Russia launches
a war soon, the US and European countries will not be able to wash their hands clean and deny the central role they played in its breakthrough.
The first was its refusal to run a Russian "Marshall Plan", even though Russia needed it even more than Germany, because unlike Germany, Russia did not have a democratic-capitalist tradition.
The demand of the World Monetary Fund from Russia to operate from the moment of the fall of communism by ordinary standards, played a central role in the oligarchs' takeover of its assets and its transformation into a "lame" capitalist democracy.
The second mistake was the 2018 removal of Russia from the G8.
Even if Russia is a lame democracy, and perhaps even a failure, it is itself: its territory is twice as large as that of the United States; it has unparalleled mineral reserves in the world; Are proud of their identity and national mobilization to eliminate Nazism, and are ready for such mobilization even in the present.
Documentation: Russian heavy artillery near the Ukrainian border
The third, and most significant mistake of all, was the U.S. refraining from dismantling NATO, which was established because of the threat it posed to the West an ideology that held that the success of communism depended on making the entire world communist.
After the collapse of communism, and in the face of the current threats, it was right to replace NATO (designed to protect Europe from the passing threat) with a new defense that would protect the entire West, including Russia, which is its flesh and blood.
After the collapse of communism, the conflicts of interest between Russia and the West are mostly economic, rather than as ideologically acute as in the past.
And economic contradictions, unlike ideological ones, can and must be settled in diplomatic negotiations.
Russia is the only Western country bordering the two new threats - both Iran and Chinese nationalism - and is therefore the first line of defense against them.
For this reason, Russia is strong militarily, economically, socially and politically, and capable of fulfilling its role in defending the West, which is a supreme Western interest, successfully.
The United States - the power under which Nazism and Communism were defeated - had to ensure that it could fulfill this role successfully. Russia's expulsion from the West pushes it into the hands of its enemies, who wait for it with open arms, because it will cross the front into Europe, instead of Asia.
Statesmanship is divided into "breakthrough" (Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan) and "tightens" broken roads.
NATO commemoration is an example of a way to end the need. Like Truman at the beginning of his tenure, Biden is portrayed as a "tightening" bureaucratic leader. , By immediately announcing its intention to replace NATO (to which the possibility of Ukraine's inclusion has aroused the wrath of the Russians) with a new organization, whose discussion and structure will be opened in cooperation with Russia as soon as the winds calm down.
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