(International Watch) Is the U.S. a bystander to the Ukraine issue?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, March 6th: Is the United States a bystander to the Ukraine issue?

　　Author Su Jingxin Wu Xu

　　Recently, the US has repeatedly spread false information and used the Ukraine issue to smear China.

This practice was also refuted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Under the current situation, the US's practice of not reflecting on its own mistakes and instead trying to blame other countries will only make the situation more complicated.

Is America an innocent bystander?

　　Thomas Friedman, a well-known American expert on international affairs, published an article in the New York Times on February 21, pointing out that in this Ukraine crisis, the United States and NATO are not innocent bystanders.

Friedman believes that the U.S. decision on NATO expansion has "added a huge piece of wood" to the conflict in the Ukraine crisis.

　　After the end of the Cold War, NATO led by the United States has not withdrawn from the stage of history, and has continued to expand eastward.

Russia has repeatedly publicly condemned NATO, claiming that "NATO deceived Russia."

　　"I think this (referring to NATO expansion) is the beginning of a new cold war, and Russia will slowly react quite adversely, which will affect their policy." Friedman quoted former US ambassador to the Soviet Union George W. Kenan's words.

George Kennan advised the U.S. government back in the 1990s that continued NATO expansion against Russia would be the deadliest mistake in U.S. policy.

　　Angusto Zamoral, the former Nicaraguan ambassador to Spain, also pointed out in an article published in the Spanish daily "Public" on February 28 that the United States knows that it is impossible to fight alone, so it is eager to recruit those who are willing to spend part of the budget to make up for America's inferiority and to act as cannon fodder in the war against Russia.

　　The article bluntly stated that this can explain why the United States refuses to negotiate security issues with Russia, because the issue is not Ukraine's independence and sovereignty, but Ukraine as a trap so that Europe can blindly and collectively assume the role of the United States' Atlantic flank.

Taking advantage of the crisis to profit from the United States may become a "winner"?

　　After the Russia-Ukraine conflict, although the United States claimed to be committed to a peaceful solution to the crisis, it never released a positive and clear signal in the Russia-Ukraine negotiations.

During the preparations for the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, US State Department spokesman Price also said that "this is not the condition for a real diplomatic dialogue", citing that the fighting has not stopped and that the conditions are not met.

　　Former U.S. Congressman Tulsi Gabbard said in an interview with Fox News that the U.S. can prevent a war between Russia and Ukraine as long as it promises not to admit Ukraine to NATO, but they don’t.

She pointed out that the "military-industrial complex" of the United States will make a lot of money from the war.

According to reports, at the end of January, senior executives of U.S. military companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin also said at an investor meeting that tensions in Ukraine and other places would benefit the sales performance of military companies.

　　Latin American news agency on February 26, titled "Who will benefit from the Ukraine crisis?

"The article emphasized that multinational oil and gas companies from the United States may profit from the Ukraine crisis.

　　The article pointed out that the United States, as the world's largest natural gas producer, increasingly counts European countries as customers.

But the Beixi-2 natural gas pipeline project poses a threat to the companies' sales.

Once Nord Stream 2 is operational, it will transport more than double the volume of Russian gas currently flowing to Europe.

So America must stop this gigantic project at all costs.

　　The article believes that now Europe's energy security is at risk because of Russia's "special military action", and US energy companies can use this to gain a larger market share in the European market.

More U.S. ships are set to sail to European ports to deliver LNG and return full of profits.

Can a Cold War mentality solve the problem?

　　In fact, the U.S. has never been a bystander to the Ukraine issue, and the U.S. recently spread rumors even more intentionally to shirk its responsibilities and divert attention.

　　"The United States claims to promote NATO's eastward expansion is to maintain peace, has the United States done it? The United States claims to prevent war in Europe, has the United States done it? The United States claims to be committed to a peaceful resolution of the crisis, in addition to providing military assistance and increasing military deterrence What kind of things has the United States done that are conducive to peace?" In the face of the unreasonable accusations of the United States against China on the Ukraine issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin issued three consecutive questions.

　　Earlier, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once pointed out in the "Washington Post" that if Ukraine wants to survive and develop, it should not choose between the West and the East, and should not become an "outpost" of one party against the other. It should be a "bridge" connecting the two parties.

　　Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, also emphasized in his speech at the emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the situation in Ukraine that the Cold War has already ended, and the Cold War mentality based on group confrontation should be abandoned, and provoking a new Cold War is even more harmful than harmless. Yili.

The top priority now is for all parties concerned to exercise necessary restraint, prevent the situation from deteriorating further, and intensify diplomatic efforts to promote a political settlement.

　　How to resolve the Ukrainian crisis peacefully is obviously not just a matter of the negotiating table between Russia and Ukraine.

All parties need to abandon the Cold War mentality, the logic of safeguarding their own security at the expense of other countries' security, and the practice of seeking regional security by expanding military blocs in order to better promote the resolution of the Ukraine issue.

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