At present, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is in full swing, and the focus of the world's attention is drawn to the ice and snow sports in the arena. Although the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Olympic Armistice Agreement by an absolute majority a few months ago, requiring UN member states to stop using any non-peaceful means to resolve international disputes during the Beijing Winter Olympics, some unstable factors are still fermenting at this time against the background of the increasingly complex and fierce world situation.
The game between the two major powers of the United States and Russia on the Ukraine issue constitutes the most dangerous element of the current international dispute. On February 10, local time, US President Biden said in an interview with us media that in view of russia's continued threat to "invade" Ukraine, he has issued a final warning to the US citizens who have remained in Ukraine on the same day:
"U.S. citizens must leave the area immediately!" Biden said after answering a reporter's question.
Biden admits that the current situation facing the US government is not dealing with terrorist organizations as before, but is playing a fierce game with "one of the most powerful militaries in the world". This extraordinary situation has not been seen in the past few decades, and if there is an accident in the middle, "the whole world will become very crazy."
After entering the 21st century, especially since the "911" incident, the focus of the US foreign strategy has gradually been placed on the war on terrorism, first the war in Afghanistan, then the war in Iraq, and the United States has thrown its most elite armed forces into the protracted "security war", which not only failed to win victory on the battlefield, but also seriously dragged down the US diplomatic strategy, financial situation and army building.
During the Obama era, the US government proposed the "return to the Asia-Pacific" plan, after so many years of gradually shrinking troops from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US top level of attention to the Middle East has been declining, and will focus on China in the Asia-Pacific region and Russia in Europe, trying to reopen a new form of cold war.
In the direction of China, the United States mainly relies on the South China Sea dispute and the Taiwan Strait issue to carry out strategic deterrence against China; on the Russian side, the Russian-Ukrainian border confrontation is a key part of the Strategic Encirclement of Russia by the Western Bloc, and once Ukraine completely joins NATO, Russia without a strategic buffer zone is very likely to fight with the entire West.
According to US media reports, the Pentagon has ordered 1,700 soldiers of the vanguard of the US 82nd Airborne Division to fly in military transport aircraft to the southeastern region of Poland near Ukraine to deal with possible military conflicts at any time. In addition, 1,000 U.S. troops stationed overseas in Germany have also begun to relocate to Romania, close to Ukraine.
Comprehensive calculations, the future deployment of the US military in the direction of Europe will reach more than 30,000 people, this group of US troops carry a large number of advanced heavy equipment, including helicopter gunships, main battle tanks, etc., in addition, a US aircraft carrier strike group is cruising in the Mediterranean Sea, ready to cooperate with the army at any time. Such a configuration close to actual combat can be seen by clear-eyed people that the US top brass has long been prepared for the outbreak of war.
Coupled with the withdrawal of U.S. diplomats in Ukraine and the immediate evacuation of U.S. citizens in Ukraine, it further confirms that the Biden administration is trying to launch a local war that it believes is short and controllable, so as to solve the stalemate between the United States and Russia on the Ukraine issue once and for all.
Although the "hawks" of the US military continue to clamor for war against Russia, Biden also admitted that when the United States and Russia exchange fire, it will trigger a "world war", which will lead to a complete change in the world pattern, which Washington does not want to see.
According to the outside world, Russia has deployed 100,000 troops in the Russian-Ukrainian border area, deployed a large number of armored units with strong combat strength and high mobility, and in the first time of the war, the Russian T-90A and T-80BVM tanks will sweep across the vast plains of Ukraine. At the same time, the Russian Navy's landing ship formation was also urgently transferred to the Russian-Ukrainian border, when the Russian army could launch offensive operations against Ukraine from land and sea at the same time.
Although the Ukrainian crisis is complex and difficult to solve, military means are by no means the most perfect solution, diplomatic mediation and peace negotiations are still in line with the purposes of all parties, as the initiator of this crisis, the United States must personally solve the disaster it has created.