I don't like Trump, I really don't, but I hope he continues with this. Sadly he probably won't do the same with Israel though.
USA is not stepping back, they are acting like an aggressor both against Ukraine and Canada. And against EU those somewhat less so.
All this is not so hilarious for me, living next to Russia and wondering if they will invade us within next 5-10 years, and whether we will receive any help from abroad when Europe seems to become increasingly pro-Russian. What is happening now is potentially a matter of life and death to us.
I guess this reality has never reached the leaders of the EU apparently. Trump was in power before and also threatened to leave NATO yet the EU countries did not prepare for this at all. They had 4 years of Biden to do so but alas they simply waited and wasted time.
> The disturbing thing is how the current administration blamed Ukraine for the war, sees Putin's Russia as an ally, and actively wants to destabilize EU by supporting pro-Russian forces inside it.
You find it disturbing because you are missing the forest for the trees.
China is now very tightly coupled with Russia and Iran. The biggest threat to US hegemony is not Russia, not by a mile. China has the means, the power and the will to start asserting itself on the global stage. On the other hand Russia struggles to hold on to a 5th of Ukraine.
Trump wants to split Russia away from China and is willing to give up on Ukraine in order to make this happen. It's that simple. Russia has huge swaths of raw minerals, fossil fuels, lumber and so on that China needs in order to expand it's economy therefore it makes complete sense to try to slide a wedge between them in order to isolate China.
In this game of Geo-politics, Ukraine and the EU are just pawns that can be traded/pushed around because they have barely any weight in the global order.
You can be mad about this but if you do you should be mad towards the EU leaders from the last 30 years who instead of building a robust industrial base, sent all their jobs abroad, who instead of building a army that could resist an invasion, relied on the US protection without even reaching the minimum NATO investment threshold year after year.
The EU countries made their bed and now they are struggling because most of them are broke, their economies are in the gutter and are slowly crumbling.
> All this is not so hilarious for me, living next to Russia and wondering if they will invade us within next 5-10 years, and whether we will receive any help from abroad when Europe seems to become increasingly pro-Russian. What is happening now is potentially a matter of life and death to us.
This is a weird take. On one hand Russia, is not even able to conquer the whole of Ukraine but somehow it has the capability to steamroll over all the Baltic states? So which one is it, is Russia a paper tiger or an unstoppable force?
Both can't be true at the same time.
China is now very tightly coupled with Russia and Iran. The biggest threat to US hegemony is not Russia, not by a mile. China has the means, the power and the will to start asserting itself on the global stage.
Trump wants to split Russia away from China and is willing to give up on Ukraine in order to make this happen. It's that simple.
As far as US-Russia-China relations go, you can't trust any promises Russia makes to the US. They will betray Americans as soon as China offers them a better deal, which I believe they can. They can just wait until China invades Taiwan, and then attack Eastern Europe & make deal with China while America is too busy fighting them.
How do you envision this playing out in your corner of the third world?