The Enemy of the West

We must know who is our friend and foe, to avoid various confusions in life. Who is the enemy of the west? To make sure the right answer for this will help the west, and the global community as a whole, to avoid various implications in international relations, conflicts, loss of property, and life due to conflicts.

Russian annexation of Crimea and its support to pro-Russian rebels fighting the Ukraine’s army, led the United States and their European allies to impose sanctions on Russia. The sanctions infuriated the Russians who were saber rattling with nuclear weapons. The situation in Ukraine is of lesser importance to both United States and Europe, it was neither a real threat from Russia. Crimea was part of Russia, which was united with Ukraine for administrative reasons , during the presidency of Nikita Kruchev  in former Soviet Union. Even though, Ukraine, now an independent nation, was an ex-Soviet state with close cultural and historic bond with Russia.

What the sanctions have achieved other than complicating the situation more and more? Of course  it  caused some strain on Russian economy, and employment, and the same sanctions strained the economy of European countries to the tune of 100 billion Euros, Germany, Poland, France , and Italy are the countries affected by the sanctions according to a News Week report. There are severe losses to United States to if not in economic terms, but in other crucial areas.

Russia is pioneer in space and rocket technology, Americas space agency NASA often depend upon Russia for various technological issues related with space research , it should be noted that a few other countries actively engaged in space research such as India, China, and Brazil are also solely depend on Russian technological assistance. Therefore it was evident that the United  States need the collaboration of Russia not only in space but to solve a number of international crisis issues, which  the United States was incompetent to solve, and even ignored the Russian advices on various occasions, and  embroiled itself in the crisis with bloodshed and no end to the problem. Iraq, Syria, and Libya are some of them.

 It would not be a wise idea to antagonize Russia at a time , when the U.S-China relations are heading toward a confrontational mode. China’s recent emergence as a economic power, and its ambition to become regional and global power is threatening the very, role of United States in the Asia Pacific region. It is the communist China a real challenge to United States not Russia.

Since the end of the Cold War and the breakup of Soviet Union, as former American President Ronald Reagan declared the real threat of the future world community is ‘Islamic terrorism’

For the last five decades, case studies on International relations are analyzed; it would give a surprising answer for the current and future crisis in the world peace and prosperity. Since the end of World War II, the cold war started between communist east, and capitalist west led by the Soviet Union, and the United States respectively. Throughout the periods there were wars such as Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cuban revolution.