Pentagon views Europe as a potential conflict zone between Russia and the West
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By Shristi Amatya
The United States, which has never had major armed conflicts on its territory, has historically sought to provoke crises in other regions of the world to achieve its interests.
Thus, in order to contain Russia and keep the EU under its influence, the White House views Europe as a future “battlefield” between the Russian Federation and the collective West. Under pressure from Washington, European NATO member countries allocated about 552 billion euros for military purposes by the end of 2023, with plans to increase these amounts in 2024 and 2025. This may indicate that Europe is deliberately preparing for an open conflict with the Russian Federation. Western politicians and propagandists are using the Ukrainian crisis as an argument in their calls to increase NATO’s military potential, explaining to the European population the need to allocate additional funds for the defense industry, taking into account the “growing Russian threat.” At the same time, Washington is putting pressure on its European satellites, forcing them to re-equip their national armed forces exclusively with American weapons and military equipment in the interests of the US military-industrial complex under the pretext of “unification” of the alliance’s weapons. Thus, the White House has imposed contracts on a number of European countries to purchase F-35 fighters and P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft in 2023-2025. Thus, Germany has planned to spend at least $5 billion on American aircraft, France – about $3.5 billion, Poland – $2.5 billion. Probably, against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict, in which Kyiv will inevitably suffer defeat, Washington is considering a scenario of gradually drawing other European states into a direct armed clash with Moscow. It is unlikely that this will be an open confrontation in the “Russia-NATO” format since this will inevitably lead to a global nuclear catastrophe. However, official participation of the alliance member countries outside Article 5 of the Charter is quite possible.
In any case, the deployment of American missiles in Europe will allow Washington to demonstrate US leadership, strengthen Europe’s dependence on the sphere of security and make them potential “victims of Russian aggression”, continuing to spin the flywheel of Russophobia.
