USA prepares for new Cold War against invisible enemy

In preparing for the latest Cold War, the Americans are for some reason giving up part of what they won from the previous one – the system of forward deployment bases aimed at the Soviet Union. But where will the forces from European garrisons actually go? What if they are redeployed to a new front line on the border with Russia and Belarus? For example, the brand new shield to counter missiles from Iran has been set up not just anywhere, but in the Czech Republic and Poland.

The withdrawal of troops from Cold War garrisons in Asia is very interesting. First and foremost, from which garrisons exactly – Japan, South Korea, South-East Asia? That is unlikely. Probably from bases in post-Soviet Central Asia. It has clearly never quite worked out for the Americans there. The Uzbeks forced them out of Hanabad; the Kyrgyz tactlessly asked them for 100 times more for their Gansi base, because they need money. For at least a year the Americans have been weighing up the possibility of withdrawing from this region, leaving behind them key economic and human rights influences. As a result the geopolitical vacuum in Central Asia will be promptly filled by either Russia or China. The very absence of any mention of China in Bush’s speech is telling in itself. America is preparing for a serious conflict with China, and with this in mind their demonstrative abandoning of Central Asia would mean that the Chinese have been offered a hint of a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: a suggestion for the direction that their expansion should take, diverting them from Taiwan and South-East Asia as a whole. Expansions which will occupy China’s attention until the USA is ready for them: they will rearm, negating China’s (and at the same time Russia’s) capabilities; they will establish control over outer space and will put Reagan’s “Star Wars” plan into action. In these ideas there is a significant amount that is American, too American – from their instinctive political isolationism to their deeply instilled concept of the war for the greater good – for it all to come true.

Source: Utro

Translated by James Platt