Russia is threatening the USA/EU/NATO bloc strategy to extend and deepen its hegemony in the European geopolitical space. This is a project that has been in progress ever since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. It underpins the extension of NATO into the Baltic states and Eastern Europe in 1999, 2004 and 2009, the expansion of the EU into the Baltic states and Eastern Europe in 2004 and 2007, and the 2002 Berlin Plus Agreement which formalised NATO's role as an EU military asset.
The USA/EU/NATO bloc is therefore seeking both to incorporate the Ukraine into its domain, as well as to leverage the Ukraine crisis to engineer a stand-off with the Putin regime. The aim is to bring about regime change in Russia itself as a result of a phased program of diplomatic isolation, military posturing and economic sanctions.
The intended outcome is a Russian regime that is compliant to USA/EU/NATO geopolitical goals. However, there is no indication that the Putin regime or the Russian public are about to rollover for the US/EU/NATO axis. Putin is riding high in the opinion polls.
Just how far is the USA willing to go?
Lionel Reynolds is an independent analyst who writes the www.dispatchesfromempire.com blog.
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