The US-led NATO aggressive posture against Russia on the Ukraine issue has led to a continuous increase in tensions in the Ukrainian region, especially after the official meeting between the United States and Russia on January 10 came to a standstill, and the United States took the move to deploy strategic bombers in Ukraine, which further heated up the whole situation, and many observers believe that the United States and Russia are getting closer and closer to the cordon of conflict.
However, some senior officials of the US military have diametrically opposed views on this, believing that if Russia is moderated or withdrawn on the Ukrainian issue, then China, which has always been on the sidelines, will certainly make the same move by Russia, taking Russia as an example and following a similar example, then the place of this "provocation" can only be in the direction of the Taiwan Strait.
On January 17, the former commander-in-chief of the United States in NATO, four-star General Scarparotti, gave his own views on the Ukrainian issue, he believes that the current struggle between the United States and Russia has attracted widespread attention in the world, and China and Iran are also paying attention to the current situation, if the United States makes concessions to Russia, then the Chinese side will definitely imitate Russia in the same way and put into action in the Taiwan Strait region. He also believes that he is very disappointed that china and Russia do not take military options, scarparotti believes that every time there is an emergency in Russia or the Taiwan Strait, the United States always abandons the military choice and shows weakness, and now in the face of the two strong opponents of China and Russia, the United States is facing a huge risk of two-front operations, but the EXISTING military is insufficient, and it is impossible to cope with two fronts of war with two strong enemies at the same time.
Tiger Girl here to highlight the Scarparotti, this person is a four-star general in the United States Army, in Asia and Europe have military experience, military experience is very rich. From 2013 to 2016, he served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military in South Korea, and from 2016 to 2019, he served as commander-in-chief of NATO forces, and is now retired from active duty.
He believes that the current situation in Eastern Europe and the Taiwan Strait is not optimistic, and Russia has deployed more than 100,000 troops in Ukraine, which may blitz Ukraine from three directions at the same time, which leads to the risk of conflict between the United States and its NATO and Russia in Ukraine. If the United States has made even the slightest concession in its confrontation with Russia, it will bring morale boost to China and let China understand that this is a "successful precedent" that can be used as a reference, when China will follow Russia's example in the Taiwan Strait region, and Scarparotti also threatens China that if Chinese mainland promotes "escalation of the situation" on the Taiwan Strait issue, it will trigger a joint attack by the United States and its allies. But then, the harsh-talking US general also admitted that at least for now, the US military will have a serious shortage of troops in the face of two-front operations, which is a problem that the US national security strategy has to solve.
First of all, the reason for the increasing tension and gunpowder between the United States and European allies and Ukraine and Russia is entirely due to the arching fire behind the back of the United States, first instructing Ukraine to provoke Russia, and then fabricating lies that Russia intends to invade Ukraine, providing Arms to Ukraine and arming Ukrainian troops on this pretext, creating an "illusion" for Ukraine that can break its wrist with Russia, and even sending brigade-level army units and strategic bombers , to go to and deploy Ukraine, with substantive actions to instigate Ukraine to continue to stifle Russia, but it is not big enough. Such provocations provoked a tit-for-tat confrontation with Russia, which mobilized large numbers of troops to the Russian-Ukrainian border to guard against any possible attack by the United States.
In response to China, the United States has gone even further, just at the stall of Scarparotti's speech, there is a nuclear aircraft carrier of the United States in the waters near the South China Sea, and an amphibious assault ship sailing, in addition, the United States has also sent another nuclear aircraft carrier and an amphibious assault ship to the South China Sea, which is on the way, and these 4 sea strike groups will conduct large-scale joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Moreover, in recent times, the so-called "support" of the Us side of the Taiwan authorities has not only been the wanton sale of advanced weapons and the armed upgrading of the Taiwan military in the military, but also the frequent use of high-ranking US officials in politics to speak out, declaring that they will not allow the mainland to liberate Taiwan by force, openly supporting the Taiwan independence forces, and wantonly interfering in China's internal affairs and pointing fingers. Therefore, in essence, whether it is the tension in the Taiwan Strait or Eastern Europe, it is provoked by the United States, which is afraid of chaos in the world.
A reality that makes the US military feel difficult is that if there is a conflict in Ukraine, the United States is bound to have no time to take care of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, and once the PLA has any large-scale military exercises or amphibious landing exercises at this time, the already tense nerves of the United States cannot stand this stimulus, and it is this that it is afraid of. If the United States mobilizes troops from Europe because of our move, then it will reduce the pressure on Russia from the side, and it will coincide with the strategic cooperative partnership between China and Russia. In the future, if the United States has nothing to do with either side of China and Russia, China and Russia can adopt the method of conducting military exercises and conducting military training to trick the Americans into running at both ends.