West is Effete on Russia And Has No Chance of Taming China. India Wise to Stay Away

The USA-led world order is in absolute shambles. Its priorities, over-burdened by the weight of the Cold War, are botched up, to say the least. With an undue focus on Russia, the White House has directed all its energies, and leveraged all its alliances, towards reorienting European energy security and forcing the Kremlin to bow down which it is not planning to do.

Here’s where the problem lies with the USA’s foreign policy throwback to the 1960s when the Cold War with Russia was at its peak. It’s 2022, and what Putin wants is reunification with certain ex-Soviet countries, reclaim Russia’s sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and protect its gas supply hegemony in Europe. However, beyond this, Russia is no longer in a position to challenge the US-led world order. Its economy is 14 times smaller than the USA’s, its currency is almost 80 times smaller than the dollar and its population is under a rapid decline. Instead, it is China that is the real threat to the US and its allies, and Beijing has also been quite clear about uprooting the US-led order and replacing the US as the world’s most powerful nation, both militarily and economically. It would also be happy to become Moscow’s full-time banker to further its global financial dominance. Despite this, Biden’s primary focus has been Russia, and has used his Eastern European host in Kyiv to the fullest.