This is a good article but it limits its scope to Russia and the EU. The problem is that the US is fixed on taking down a resurgent Russia and has mounted a strong economic, foreign policy and military stance if needed to do so. The US is also mounting a propaganda campaign domestically to prepare American for war with Russia.
This situation is growing more dangerous daily and the Russians are well aware of US intentions. So is China and the Chinese leadership realizes that if Russia falls, they are next on the list for regime change and neoliberal takeover.
Complicating the matter are similar US designs on China in order to prevent an axis forming that would pit Eurasianists with Atlanticists. A Chinese, Russian and Iranian alliance is Washington's worst nightmare. This is also taking a geopolitical, geostrategic and global economic turn of pitting East and South represented by BRICS and the emerging world in general against the North and West (NATO and Japan).
If history is any guide, the present course is a collision course and the world is again heading toward war. War has either a territorial or economic basis. Territorial disputes remain unsettled since WWII, and recent developments suggest that economic blocs are again confronting each other in a game that Washington perceives as zero-sum, based on unipolarity and hegemony, even though Russia and China have been emphasizing win-win based on multipolarity and a balance of power.
Add to this a Thucydides Trap, and the future is concerning.
Most significant, however, is that this is now unfolding in Europe, which has been the scene of so much war for centuries, even millennia.
How rival economic blocs replaced the Cold War's military blocs
Nikolay Shevchenko
See also
Demonising Russia won’t give us security
Letter to the Guardian by Anna Matveeva, King’s College London, and Richard SakwaKent University
The Daily Sheeple — Wake the Flock Up
WW3 Ahead? Pentagon To Quadruple Military Budget For European Theater
The Daily Sheeple — Wake the Flock Up
WW3 Ahead? Pentagon To Quadruple Military Budget For European Theater
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