Mr Zelensky, a former television actor with an acute sense of his audience, has detected a change of mood among some of his partners. “I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you,’” he says, speaking in English (a language in which he is increasingly fluent). “But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”
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The problem with this logic is that you cannot fight China without settling the business with Europe/Russia first.
The 2009 financial crisis had weakened the US financial sector and allowed the EU to develop as a rival currency bloc (thanks to cheap Russian energy supply), whose alignment with Russia and China could pose a direct threat to US hegemony on the world.
This is why the post-2009 strategy has been to sever Europe-Russia ties, first with the Maidan coup (just after Nord Stream 1 was completed) and then the current war in Ukraine (just after Nord Stream 2 was completed).
Trump was also part of the strategy, make no mistake, although he preferred the “art of the deal” bullshit rather than Biden’s bomb Ukraine and Nord Stream strategy to make the Europeans yield.