My Take | US learns nothing from lesson in Ukraine
- Washington is replicating a similar anti-Russian strategy against China, but hopefully pragmatic countries in the Indo-Pacific will resist for the sake of regional peace
Everyone and their dog thinks China must learn from the Russian war in Ukraine. But Beijing is not the only “pupil” or even the one with the highest stake.
Besides Ukraine and Russia, the day’s lesson really belongs to the United States.
And signs are that the Americans are learning nothing because they are buying into their own propaganda.
Refusing to recognise this conflict is turning into a global disaster, they are trying to replicate a similar strategy, in the Indo-Pacific, against China. It is bound to fail, but there is a great possibility that it will still cause a great deal of havoc before the dust settles.
Hopefully, pragmatic Asian nations will wisely resist before the conflagration in Europe is repeated in their part of the world.
The European Union and the United States may have a renewal of purpose, but not the rest of the world.