[Circle Time Depth] Lift off the American mask layer by layer! America is the Cold War conspirator of the 21st century!
【Global Times reporter Zhao Juejun】Editor's note: On April 4, local time, Sullivan, the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States, announced that the United States and its allies will announce new economic sanctions against Russia this week.
The United States frequently wields sanctions against Russia in an attempt to hit the Russian economy hard, while forcing European countries to become more dependent on the United States.
It has been more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, but the ghosts still linger.
Washington is keen to incite ideological confrontation, indulging in the illusion of its own imaginary enemy, unable to extricate itself.
The Ukraine crisis is a new trap set up in the 21st century by the US, a Cold War conspirator, in an attempt to consume Russia and control Europe, thereby maintaining its absolute hegemony in the world.
Deliberately creating "destruction"
"NATO is a defensive alliance, and it has never sought to destroy Russia." US President Joe Biden defended NATO's eastward expansion in a speech in Poland on March 26.
Biden's words are not without merit, as trying to wipe out a Russia with a land area of more than 17 million square kilometers, nuclear weapons and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council is almost impossible.
Although Russia cannot be physically "destroyed", in the past few decades, the United States and NATO led by the United States have worked hard to consume Russia in terms of politics and economy, intending to divide, divide, weaken, and weaken.
The U.S. has directed the same script on the Soviet Union, so it hopes the same ending can be repeated in the 21st century.
"The United States played a central role in the political process of the disintegration of the Soviet Union." Brzezinski, a well-known geopolitical scholar and national security adviser to former U.S. President Carter, said bluntly that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a joint effort of the two parties in the United States for 40 years. result.
During this period, almost every U.S. president made a substantial "contribution" to the outcome in one way or another.
One of the most notable examples of this "effort" is the "Star Wars" program proposed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
The United States hopes to bring down the Soviet economy through space weapons competition.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States immediately announced the suspension of the "Star Wars" program.
With the declassification of classified documents from the CIA during the Cold War, many people have discovered that the previously high-profile "Star Wars" program of the United States may just be a deliberate strategic deception.
Schweitzer, an American writer, mentioned in his book How the Reagan Administration Broke the Soviet Union that the "resource crisis" faced by the Soviet leadership in the 1980s was not caused by U.S. policy , but Washington has adopted a strategy to exacerbate the crisis.
This tactic took many forms: covert diplomacy, covert operations, a continual build-up of defenses, and a series of "sand on the turning gears" of the Soviet economy.
Another "cold war weapon" of the United States is the foreign propaganda machine represented by the "Voice of America".
The "Voice of America" established in 1942 began to serve the U.S. Cold War strategy after World War II and became the main tool of the U.S. government's propaganda to the Soviet people. ideology.
To achieve this, "Voice of America" began broadcasting in local languages in Ukraine, Lithuania and other places in 1949.
American propaganda exacerbated the ideological confusion in Soviet society, accelerated the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and ultimately made the United States the unipolar world hegemony.
On the 30th anniversary of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Novikov, deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who experienced this history, told the media that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was the result of the collective actions of Western countries led by the United States. , not the Soviet Union itself "disintegrated", but was "destroyed".
Deliberately setting up a "Ukrainian trap"
After the "fall" of the Soviet Union, has the US's suppression and containment of its main successor, Russia, ceased?
The answer is obvious, no.
Although the then US President George W. Bush delivered a televised speech announcing the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US Cold War mentality has not stopped. It still hovers over the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency like a ghost, making American politicians always View the international situation in terms of "zero-sum game" and "ideological competition".
Whether it is "Russia is a major threat to humanity" claimed by former US President Barack Obama or "Russia is America's greatest enemy" claimed by current US President Joe Biden, they all reflect Washington's geopolitical strategy.
American political elites have long formed an anti-Russian consensus.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, in terms of security, NATO led by the United States has continued to squeeze Russia's security space through five rounds of eastward expansion.
The United States has also frequently raised sanctions against Russia with a "big stick" to attack Moscow from an economic perspective.
At the same time, the United States has been working to disintegrate the ruling foundation of Russian President Vladimir Putin from within, and create social conditions for launching a "color revolution" in Russia.
Although the current situation in Ukraine has complex historical latitude and longitude, from the perspective of the United States, it is a "trap" that it has spent years digging.
Washington has successively promoted two "color revolutions" in Ukraine, first pushing the pro-Western Yushchenko to the presidency in 2005, and "removing" Yanukovych in 2014.
The joint efforts of the "color revolution" and NATO's eastward expansion pushed Russia into the US Cold War chess game step by step.
Since November 2021, the United States has been exaggerating that Russia has assembled troops in the Russia-Ukraine border area, and may "immediately invade" Ukraine, just like a "please enter the urn" gesture.
"Today, we are facing an avoidable crisis. This is a crisis that could be predicted, and it was predicted, but it was deliberately facilitated." Matlock, the last US ambassador to the Soviet Union, recently wrote, "We are witnessing a well-planned farce that was seriously amplified by prominent figures in American public opinion to serve domestic political purposes." Tang Shiping, director of Fudan University's Center for Complex Decision Analysis, said recently that before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, the US The real purpose is to push Moscow into a corner step by step, and finally force it to use force against Ukraine, so as to achieve the goal of "multiple birds with one stone". "From this perspective, the current Ukraine crisis is essentially the United States giving Ukraine, Europe and Russia. A dose of poison dropped."
malicious incitement
"He (Biden) vowed to make Russia pay a high economic and strategic price and make (Russian President) Putin an 'outcast' on the international political stage." The New York Times described the U.S. after the escalation of the situation in Ukraine. Russia strategy.
Around this strategy, the United States, together with its European allies, launched unprecedented sanctions against Russia, not even Russia's cats and dogs, in order to weaken Russia and try to change the decision-making of its political leadership - this is typical of the Cold War era containment policy.
By putting Europe in a dangerous situation and thereby weakening Europe's strategic autonomy, in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States has repeated this strategy that it has always adopted during the Cold War.
In the escalation of the situation in Ukraine, the United States has repeatedly set fire to fire, and has imposed comprehensive and indiscriminate sanctions on Russia to promote the escalation of the conflict. Most of the security and economic consequences of these actions are borne by Europe.
The sense of crisis created by the United States has also strengthened Europe's dependence on the United States and NATO, which has greatly strengthened the United States' restraint on Europe.
China is another U.S. target in the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.
When China repeatedly stressed that "the current situation is something we don't want to see", Western countries led by the United States took the opportunity to attack China, pressured China to participate in sanctions against Russia, and maliciously divided Western countries with China and Russia Two opposing blocs - and that's a quintessential Cold War mentality.
Insidious plot to "new cold war"
"After 1991, the Cold War has not really ended, and the United States and NATO have not stopped strategically squeezing Russia's living space. In recent years, the United States has also regarded China as the most important strategic competitor, and has tried to create a situation that is not conducive to China's development through various means. In the 21st century, American politicians not only maintain a Cold War mentality, but are also insidiously advancing their "new Cold War" plans.
In light of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, the United States plans to increase military spending and expand its military presence near Russia while maintaining a long-term focus on confronting China, current and former U.S. officials said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Pentagon's strategy since 2018 has listed China and Russia as primary concerns, with North Korea, Iran and extremism as secondary threats.
This "2+3" strategy is expected to be replaced by a "1+4" strategy, where the former refers to two primary adversaries plus 3 secondary adversaries, while the latter sees China as the primary adversary and Russia as a secondary threat column.
"Since entering the White House, Biden and his top advisers have insisted that they do not want to return to the US-Soviet superpower standoff. However, after a year as US president, Biden's actions show the opposite. "A recent commentary published on the website of the American "National Interest" magazine believes that in all areas of American foreign policy, the Biden administration has maintained a Cold War-style mentality, "but the Cold War period was not a golden age of foreign relations, but a period of The tragedy of the loss of millions of lives around the world. America cannot continue to indulge in nostalgia for the victory of the Cold War.”