Change is everywhere. The more you change the more you remain the same. US policy towards Russia is one such ever changing change that never changes. Because the concept behind US policy is that Russia must remain an indispensable enemy forever. Here are snippets from Ukraine quagmire:
1. Bleed Russia white whenever possible is a fusion of political, economic & military (PEM) strategy. Ukraine offered golden opportunity, so US thought. Upending original position of not engaging in proxy war with Russia, America went overdrive imposing plethora of sanctions financial and otherwise urging friends and foes to follow suit as well. Rubble the Ruble was given primary importance, by shutting out Russia from trading in Dollars and using SWIFT. But Russia quickly came on top of it.
2. Knowing very well that Ukr has no chance of winning the land war with Russia, US egged the Ukr regime on to intensify warfighting by providing weapons with state–of-art technology ignoring the fact that the complexity of using such weapons requires intense training for several months. As a result the weapons did not effectively fire upon opponents. Most of these exploded in the hands of amateurish Ukr soldiers. Incidentally, large portion of the weapons did not reach soldiers in the frontline as they were destroyed by Russians using long range missile attacks with precision.
3. Anchored on the policy of highlighting military problems and pushing political issues to back burner, the supply of weapons did not succeed the war fighting to go in favour of Ukros. America turned Nelsonian Eye towards atrocities committed by Ukros not only in Donbass areas but in the entire stretch of south & east crescent of Ukraine proper. Consequently, it was the Ukr oligarchs who made the field day. Approximately 50% of the weapons supplied so far found its way to the Russians with whom oligarchs have Faustian bondage.
4. At the beginning, US got the nod from Ukr to fight the war till the last Ukrainian. When this was not feasible she enthused Ukros to go for guerrilla type offensive and surprise attack elsewhere away from the Ukraine theatre. A case in point is the Snake Island attack by Ukr Special Forces that was a total fiasco as whale of a lot of western supplied arms, ammunition and Helis were destroyed instantly by Kalibr missiles form Crimea.
5. A significant snippet is the way America poeticized the war in media as of liberating Ukraine from the shackles of Russia and militarized American public that Ukr war is a winnable proposition. While most arms from US reserves and finance from US coffers went via presidential executive orders, the latest attempt to send a walloping amount of 40 billion US Dollars is currently being blocked by influential senators who are asking for transparency and end-use certification.
On my assessment American strategy of treating Russia as indispensable enemy is teetering on the edge!
Cheers!
Muthu
Ashraff Rajulu
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