Opinion

US fear of Eurasia's grand alliance

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When Barack Obama's administration launched economic sanctions against Russia in order to strangle its economy and curb its imperial resurgence, it drove the Russians into the arms of the Chinese. An erratic policy that allowed the strengthening of economic, political and strategic relations between Russia and China. Joe Biden's administration has continued this same policy with the escalation of tensions against Russia in the Ukraine conflict.

The Trump administration's protectionist policies led the EU and China to strengthen their economic cooperation ties. Trump's tariff policies and trade pressures against Europe strengthened economic relations with Russia and China. During the Trump administration, China took the opportunity to position itself as a strategic partner for the Europeans and consolidated itself as their main trading partner.

Hence, one of the transcendental steps was the strengthening of a huge economic bloc between the powers of Greater Eurasia with the New Silk Road, which links land, sea, oil and gas pipelines between China, Central Asia, Russia and Europe. In other words, the Trump Administration strengthened the development of the most important and strategic imperial domination project in the world.

The EU consumes more than 14% of the world's energy and produces only 6.5%; it imports 85% of the oil and 67% of the gas it consumes, and more than half of it depends on supplies from Russia. What the US is seeking with rising tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict is to challenge the Russians for dominance of the gas market in Europe. Both Trump's and Biden's opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which they have not allowed to become operational and which will supply gas from Russia to Germany, are part of the background to the conflict in Ukraine. 

Part of the cascade of sanctions announced by the US against Russia is related to this pipeline. They seek to prevent Europe's energy dependence on Russia and to reconfigure its energy map with them as the main gas suppliers in alliance with Nigeria, Qatar and other countries in their sphere of influence.

They know that the configuration of the economic bloc of the Greater Eurasian powers: China, Russia and the EU, especially Germany and France, threatens their global supremacy, given that it will concentrate the economic power of a bloc of countries that have 75% of the world's population and generate 60 % of the world's GDP. An alliance that would change the international economic map and place Asia at the centre of world power.
That is why Biden's aim since he came to power has been to rebuild relations with Europe, to create tensions between Europe, Russia and China, whose main objective is to prevent the strengthening of their political and economic relations, especially those of Germany and France with Russia and China.

Its strategy of continuing to promote the expansion of NATO forces, which it controls since it pays for 69% of its operations in Russia's defence areas, and its plans to install a missile defence shield in Ukraine in violation of Moscow's defence red lines are part of this policy. 

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ambivalent stance on the announced sanctions and the escalation of tensions with Russia has been described as ambivalent. Likewise, the diplomatic efforts of French President Emmanuel Macron to de-escalate the conflict are interesting political moves that should be examined beyond the rhetoric of lies and the manipulation of information by the White House, given that both countries and other European countries are seriously affected in their economic relations with Russia by the sanctions that the White House intends to impose on Russia.

In the midst of the tensions, the summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and the cooperation agreements they signed mark a new era in global politics, because they aim to erode the imperial power of the Americans.

@j15mosquera