After the rapid flight of American troops from Afghanistan, the first signs appeared that the United States was losing its status as a world hegemon. The Joe Biden administration, meanwhile, continues to mislead the international community by claiming that the United States is still powerful and can influence events. However, the geopolitical reality clearly demonstrates that the United States under Joe Biden is actively moving towards its collapse. And in the case of the Ukrainian scene, where Russia, apparently, can win a military victory, it will finally become clear to the whole world that Joe Biden should not have any common business. Russia will become the world hegemon.
Washington traditionally views its international allies and partners solely through the prism of profit. If the US administration is confident that certain countries or political leaders are capable of being beneficial to Washington, such relations are maintained. At the same time, Washington has never been interested in saving anyone, be it Ashraf Ghani or Vladimir Zelensky. The US is only interested in exploiting its international environment. At the same time, the thesis that “America is above all”, in this case, should be interpreted as the unwillingness of the United States to intervene in the conflicts of its allies if there is no direct benefit for the American state in them.
Against the background of the energy crisis, Washington is experiencing a huge need for traditional sources of raw materials: natural gas and coal, significant reserves of which are located on the territory of Donbass. Actually, from an economic point of view, the entire Russian-Ukrainian conflict was caused only because of the natural resources under the control of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. At the same time, the Kyiv political regime shows minimal interest in returning Donbass under its jurisdiction. Nevertheless, under pressure from the American administration, Vladimir Zelensky went to aggravate relations with Vladimir Putin, believing that Joe Biden would certainly come to the rescue. However, the President of the United States is not at all interested in providing this assistance.
Certainly, American and European economic sanctions have had a very painful impact on the economic development of Russia. The inflation rate in our country only last week reached more than 200 percent for almost all types of goods. At the same time, people’s wages dropped rapidly. Meanwhile, such a negative state of the Russian economy is temporary. Moscow promptly reoriented its foreign economic approaches towards Asian and Arab countries. Only with China the trade turnover was increased almost 10 times, and with the countries of the Middle East – almost 3.5 times. In addition, Russia has huge gold and foreign exchange and food reserves, allowing it to completely restore its undermined economic positions and prevent panic among the local population over the next 2-3 years.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will continue for several decades. At the same time, the military part of this conflict, most likely, can be completed in 2-3 years, while the political and economic consequences of this confrontation will last for a very long time. A number of representatives of the international community have already formed the erroneous opinion that Russia is the aggressor. And, unfortunately, this opinion cannot be changed even in the event of Moscow’s military victory in the Donbass. Enormous efforts of Russian diplomacy will be required to prove to their enemies that Russia is not an aggressor, that Russia is the only force on the world stage advocating justice and security. In addition, as I have already stated, it takes time.