NATO versus Russia: Is It Even a Real Conflict?

We know Europeans tried to conquer Russia before: Napoleon tried it, and he famously lost most of his army to famine after the Tsar pre-emptively burned Moscow to the ground. Hitler tried it, but the Germans could not defeat all the 30 million Red Army soldiers.

Likewise, Stalin also tried to conquer Europe. Though he beat Hitler, the Germans did stop the Red Army at Berlin, keeping Western Europe free from communism for at least another 75 years until ‘Woke politics’ entered the stage.

Ever since the end of World War Two, NATO has been trying to get Europe to fight another war against Russia. The Cold War was supposedly a war of armaments. Nuclear stockpiles prevented the war from going hot in an act of mutually assured destruction. Some now cast doubts whether such atomic weapons really exist or not (perhaps Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed with conventional napalm spiked with uranium dust).

There is also no doubt that Russia poses a threat to Europe: If NATO can’t stop a Russian invasion of Europe, what’s to stop Putin from reclaiming the lost Soviet satellite states in Europe? What’s to stop Russia from taking all of Western Europe, as was Stalin’s intention?

Everybody dreams of global domination, but the question remains: Is NATO versus Russia (today) even a real conflict? The greatest threat to the U.S. economy certainly isn’t Russia, whose economy is about the size of Spain’s. The threat is China. China’s economy now ranks third globally, just after the European Union and the USA. Therefore, I ask my somewhat silly-sounding question, for what is the rationale behind a NATO-led invasion of Russia other than screaming “Putin is Hitler”? Or setting up more Starbucks franchises in Mother Russia?

Sure, Russia needs Ukraine to sustain its economy. And the EU also needs Ukraine to sustain its economy. And NATO needs Ukraine to strengthen its sphere of influence in Eurasia. So there is a conflict over Ukraine. But how does any of this not play into the hands of the laughing third, China? How can NATO even risk losing a war with Russia, or worse: getting bogged down in a long-term war of attrition, while the Chinese easily play both sides and win either way?

The answer may come from the books Strategic Vision and The Grand Chessboard by the late Poland-born American geopolitical scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski. In it, the author explains the need for NATO to subsume Russia as a necessary step toward global hegemony, or world domination by the American West. If NATO were to control Russia, then its allies around the world could help isolate China. They could force China to continue to be the world’s low-cost supplier of goods and services.

I don’t believe the Chinese will ever accept that role, no matter the threat. And I find it unlikely that the Russian people will ever accept the role of NATO-pet. Confronted with the Woke politics of the USA, I also believe Russian people will vomit all over their oppressor’s rainbow flag and refuse to do any work until some sensible morality has been restored. The Western fantasy that people in Russia are all gay people waiting for their liberation from some oppressive orthodoxy is astoundingly ludicrous.

Betting on Woke may cost the U.S. its precious dream of world domination. Also considering that most military personnel in Europe are politically leaning right to far-right, it is also unlikely that these men (and few women) will feel motivated to die for bringing diversity, gay marriage, transgenderism, and a gender-neutral society to Russia. These are negative values, not heroic ideals. Besides, European armed forces have been suffering budget cuts for many decades. In their present state, European armies are a liability to NATO.

It would then come down to the Turks. But why would Turkish soldiers want to fight against Russia so that the USA might win global domination?

I conclude, China welcomes any conflict between Russia and NATO. It will bleed the West dry of funds, of energy (no more cheap Russian gas and oil), and of personnel. The outcome of this conflict may be that the European Union ends up being forced to submit itself to Chinese demands rather than the other way around. In fact, this is already happening anyway, for the EU leadership dreams of building its own ‘global open society’ with the help of China.

If NATO tries to invade Russia but fails to capture Russia, the American economy will not survive. NATO leadership has lost its compass.