The disastrous decision to expand NATO eastwards, and to try to include Ukraine in it, always created the strategic risk of a general war in Europe. NATO’s current actions are turning that strategic threat into a short-term one.
A US escalation of its war on Iran carries the threat of world recession, climate catastrophes and horrendous levels of fatalities and suffering. The anti-war movement must be preparing to oppose any escalation and work to achieve a wider mobilisation.
The common framework of both the U.S. and European leaders is a reactionary division of labour in which Europe will undertake a large scale military build up in order to strategically create conditions for the U.S. to devote less of its military resources to Europe and more to its attempt to confront China.
No Cold War Perspectives short video discussing whether Trump can divide Russia and China.
Vijay Prashad and John Ross discuss the momentous shift in the US’s geopolitical orientation that Trump is attempting to achieve – a reverse in direction of the shift led by Kissinger and Nixon in the 1970s.
US imperialism has suffered a defeat in Ukraine. The US is using the same playbook, around Ukraine, as it did after its defeat in Vietnam.
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