Authored by Finian Cunningham,

The conflict in Ukraine is not only about Ukraine and Russia with the U.S. and NATO appearing as seemingly benevolent supporters of Ukraine, because the Western media painting.

The USA and its NATO allies are deeply concerned within the battle.

The army withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 – after 20 years of futile occupation – was a calculated “reorganization of firepower” towards Russia, says Pepe Escobar.

Ukraine is merely a proxy and finally cannon fodder for American imperial planners.

This conflict is a part of an even bigger geopolitical confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, China and different nations which might be pushing for the emergence of a multipolar world. That may be a multipolar world not beneath the hegemony of U.S.-dominated Western capitalism.

Pepe Escobar assesses the larger image and descriptions how the U.S. imperial state is in “panic mode” to shore up the collapsing American-controlled world capitalist system, and particularly the privileged place of the U.S. greenback.

Going to conflict with Russia presently and in the long run towards China is a part of the determined dynamic to extend the dominant place of Washington that was established after the Second World Conflict. That postwar imperial order – euphemistically referred to as the “rules-based order” – is more and more falling into disrepute from unbridled imperialist wars and abuse of economic controls.

The overwhelming majority of the planet desires liberation from the U.S./Western warmongering system that underpins capitalist exploitation that solely enriches a world elite. The conflict in Ukraine is however the manifestation of the breakdown in U.S. world energy and the desperation to protect the systematic inequality that defines capitalism.

This 12 months is fraught with excessive hazard, says Pepe Escobar. But when the psychotic U.S. deep-state planners might be contained by Russia and China with out an all-out catastrophic conflict erupting then there’s a probability of a extra hopeful, peaceable and simply world order rising.