Meengla
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The Russians are now going to try to destroy the industry in Europe and the US in an easy way; It is enough to sell the raw materials to the competitors of your enemies at cheaper prices than what is available in the market.. Then for example, the cost of production in India, China, South Africa, Brazil and Turkey will be cheaper, and their goods will become cheaper and cheaper, and surely the customers will buy at the cheapest price.. making the industry in Europe and in the US stagnate.
Interesting point. Sounds like Russia would bring down the global economy If/when Russia goes down.
The US is expanding NATO “geographically” to reach the borders of Russia because it is simply planning to deprive the Russians of their ballistic capabilities from the fixed bases on the Russian land..
When the US missile shield is installed in Ukraine, Poland, Sweden and Finland, it can can easily hit any Russian missile in the 1st stage, which is the ascent stage of the ballistic missile, or at most at the beginning of the 2nd stage. The ballistic transition stage.. In these stages, the interception success rate exceeds 95% Estimated due to the weakness of the missile in terms of acceleration or ability to move away from the lower orbit of the Earth, as does a missile such as Satan I or the new Sarmat (Satan II), where it departs from the lower orbit of the Earth and heads to the poles of the Earth, from which it is inferred on the target and revolves around the pole of the Earth until it reaches directly above it...
This is a simplified explanation of the importance of the geographical expansion of NATO to the proximity to Russia..
I am no military expert but I tend to agree with you that geographic proximity matters a lot. Americans acted against the Soviet missile deployments in a 'sovereign' country Cuba because of the factors you have mentioned. And so, in the current context, the argument that it shouldn't matter to Russia if Ukraine joins NATO is not a valid one: Just because the Baltic countries are already part of NATO doesn't mean Ukraine joining NATO would be without significantly elevated threat against Russia. Little by little encroachments should amount to chipping away an adversary's advantages.
This China v/s West propaganda is spread by the US administration and media because they are threatened by China's rise. They did the same to Japan last century when it seemed like Japan was getting too big for its boots.
Don't go back that far. I remember even as late as early 1990s there was a big hoopla in American media about Japan's trade practices and that Japan was a 'totalitarian' society blah blah. The Japanese officials had responded by calling Americans 'lazy'.