Russia: Our Necessary Ally

 Russia: Our Necessary Ally

--Russia is no longer pursuing a communist ideology nor trying to impose its government system on the world.  It is now following a nationalist agenda and seeking to recover its grandeur (MRGA).  Albeit, with an economic oligarchical system distasteful to us.  It does not present an immediate economic or military threat to the U.S. and its allies, although its nuclear arsenal and its invasion of Ukraine are always worrisome.  Global geopolitical reality has always required strategic alliances of nations across ideological divides.  Unsavory friends like Russia must be part of the coalition that confronts China’s growing threat.  It was once a critical component of the coalition that defeated Nazi Germany, and its considerable economic, scientific, and military prowess is once more in need.    

Russia’s challenges to the U.S. in weapons development and cyber security can have a salutary effect in that it is a competition that forces us to become better at these endeavors.  On the other hand, China’s challenges are existential and immediate.  Every indication suggests growing economic and military confrontation with the United States and its allies.  In the economic area, China has taken advantage of overtures from the West to cheat its way to economic parity and plans to achieve global superiority.  The West welcomed China into the World Trade Organization, expecting that it would abide by international law and fair trade.  It has instead manipulated its currency, stolen intellectual property, restricted access to its market, subsidized its industries for competitive advantage, used slave labor, and more.  While militarily, it has continued to rapidly grow and modernize its forces, and it has used its new strength to intimidate its neighbors and to threaten international shipping lanes in the South China Sea.  It is also inching closer to military aggression against the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan.

We must rapidly find a negotiated solution to the Russo-Ukranian War and proceed to integrate Russia into the Western block of nations that will ultimately have to confront Chinese hostility.  Russia has already paid dearly for its invasion of Ukraine with global opprobrium, the expansion of NATO, and a humiliating military failure. The world is rapidly becoming polarized between China and the West; nations everywhere will be compelled to choose sides and we should be laying the groundwork to have Russia be in ours.

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