China News Service, April 16 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) When the situation in Donbas is highly tense, who will appear in Kyiv?
Recently, people familiar with the matter revealed that the U.S. government has had preliminary discussions to send a senior official to Ukraine.
It may be Secretary of State Blinken, Secretary of Defense Austin, or President Biden himself.
If Biden goes to Ukraine in person, it will be a big event.
Regardless of how the security is handled and the itinerary is arranged, for Russia and Ukraine, there is a world of difference in how the meaning is interpreted.
However, the strategic considerations of the United States are far more complicated than imagined.
US President Biden.
[Jokes on the lips, "plays big chess" in my heart]
On April 14, local time, when Biden was asked by reporters whether he would send officials to Kyiv, he first said that he was undecided, and then jokingly asked the reporter "are you ready to go?"
The reporter asked "what about you", and Biden answered "yes".
Russian media interpreted this as a signal that Biden himself may go to Ukraine.
However, three days ago, White House presidential press secretary Psaki said that although Biden and US Vice President Harris are potential candidates, there is currently no relevant itinerary.
Whoever it is, the U.S. "Politics" news network commented that the U.S. official will become the latest major Western figure to meet Zelensky after European leaders' intensive visit to Kyiv.
The Biden administration has already faced complaints from Ukraine.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Veresuk believes that the visit of the US leader "was a symbolic and historic step, but it did not happen."
On March 24, local time, representatives of the Group of Seven (G7) and the European Union held a summit in Brussels, Belgium, and U.S. President Joe Biden attended.
Image source: G7
In fact, Biden is not idle.
He just went to Europe in late March. He attended three important summits of NATO, G7 and the European Union in one day, managed European allies to integrate the "anti-Russian brigade", sold natural gas by the way, and went to neighboring Ukraine the next day. Poland, and uttered a cruel sentence: "Putin cannot continue to be in power".
On April 11, Biden had a video meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was interpreted by the outside world that the United States was trying to beat India, which has been "not so obedient" since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Different dreams in the same bed or seeking common ground while reserving differences?
Judging from the US-India "2+2" ministerial-level talks immediately after the summit, the US does not care about Russia!
It is eager to confirm with India how to deal with China in regional security and defense.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
I don’t know if it’s the effect of “reporting” India. According to reports such as Kyodo News, Biden’s next diplomatic highlight will be moved to Japan.
In late May, Biden plans to visit Asia for the first time, and then participate in the face-to-face summit of the leaders of the "Quad Security Dialogue (QUAD)" between the United States, Japan, India and Australia after eight months.
The United States has long confirmed the really important agenda, even though they have traveled thousands of miles to meet offline.
No matter how intense the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is, it has not delayed its "big chess game" in advancing the Indo-Pacific strategy.
China is always in the "scope" of the United States.
[Add fuel to the fire of beauty, Russia is tit for tat]
On the other hand, Russia has announced a tit-for-tat retaliatory against the United States, which has repeatedly added fuel to the fire and exerted pressure and persecution.
"Russia Today" reported that the Russian Foreign Ministry recently announced that it would impose tit-for-tat "mirror sanctions" on 398 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in response to the U.S. sanctions on 328 members of the Russian State Duma.
These US lawmakers will be permanently banned from entering Russia.
File:U.S. Capitol Building.
87 Canadian senators are also on the Russian retaliation list.
The U.S. and Canadian authorities have earlier "played hard" on members of the Russian State Duma, freezing their assets in the United States and banning them from entering the country.
Russian observers commented that Ottawa's attempt to stand at the forefront of the anti-Russian agenda reflects the failure and dependence of Canada's foreign policy, which can only damage Canada-Russia relations exponentially.
Not only that, the generalization of US and Western sanctions against Russia has reached an incomprehensible level.
In addition to the previous so-called sanctions on the letters "Z", "V", "O", etc., recently, Russian users found that they could not use Monotype's Times New Roman and Arial fonts to type...
There are many more victims.
Yevdokimov, the first director of the CIS countries of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the unprecedented sanctions imposed by the United States and the West on Russia and Belarus have affected the five countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.
These countries are working to counteract the consequences and ensure that the market is supplied with the industrial and agricultural commodities they need.
[Beautiful war wealth, armed Ukraine]
The United States did not provide Ukraine with a sack of grain or a can of milk powder, but it has provided security assistance totaling more than 3 billion US dollars, and used a large amount of weapons and equipment to "transfuse blood" to Ukraine.
At the same time, large orders continued to flow into the hands of American arms dealers.
On the 13th, the US Department of Defense convened eight major arms dealers, including Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, to gather together, saying that it is more pleasant to discuss military aid to Ukraine, but it is actually "exchange business experience".
The F-35 fighter jet simulator developed by Lockheed Martin.
The U.S. military-industrial complex is well versed in such a set of logic: the "crypto of wealth" lies not in diplomatic peace talks, but in tension, conflict, confrontation, and bloodshed.
Only then will they be able to take orders from their feared European allies who want to arm themselves, make war fortunes, and in turn continue to lobby and interfere in the foreign policy of the US Congress.
Some people say that the United States has paid a lot, 3 billion US dollars!
Here, the author gives a set of numbers for reference:
1. In fiscal year 2021, the total amount of arms exports approved by the U.S. government will reach approximately $138.1 billion.
2. In September 2021, in order to build the Anglo-American-Australian Military Alliance (AUKUS), which is aimed at the Indo-Pacific, the United States "cut off" France and the large order to help Australia build submarines is worth tens of billions of dollars.
3. Before the Russian army entered Ukraine, Ukrainian capital fled due to panic, which amounted to 2 billion to 3 billion US dollars per month.
Who says America's abacus can't play well?
[Russia issued a warning, the United States is afraid of moving the real thing]
However, as shrewd as the United States, they are also afraid of getting burned.
According to the "Washington Post" report, with the "tides" of various weapons from the United States and NATO pouring into Ukraine, Russia is very vigilant and has issued an official diplomatic note, reminding the United States and NATO to "irresponsibly militarize Ukraine" , "Consequences are unpredictable".
Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Putin and the vice chairman of Russia's Security Council, has warned NATO that Moscow will deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in its European enclave of Kaliningrad if Sweden and Finland join the alliance.
On March 10, local time, CIA Director Burns attended a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the situation in Ukraine.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong
On April 14, CIA director Burns, a former ambassador to Russia, publicly emphasized for the first time since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that the United States cannot take Russia's "possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine lightly".
It believes that Putin may order the launch of tactical or low-yield nuclear weapons.
There is currently no indication that Putin will use nuclear means.
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the two nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, have had a "tacit understanding" that "a nuclear war cannot be fought or won".
That means, everything will be in ashes.
But "showing muscle" seems to be deemed necessary.
On the 15th, one of the four standing groups of the NATO navy, the warships of the first group of maritime minesweepers entered the Baltic Sea and will hold a joint naval and air exercise with Estonia.
The British "Financial Times" pointed out that the United States launched the largest international mobilization after the Cold War, and the global siege and infiltration of Russia was extremely frequent.
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