By Piotr Kulpa for Alpha Media
But in reality, unilateral tariffs are a system of plundering Europe, Great Britain, South Korea, Australia, and so on. On the other hand, we see China, which is also engaging in plunder, primarily in Russia, buying gas at $35 per 1,000 cubic meters. This shows that under the guise of a strategic U.S.-China rivalry, both China and the United States are profiting—each from their own “close friends.”
Here, China is acting incredibly cynically. Why? Because China uses every day to increase Russia’s dependence on itself. On one hand, it weakens Russia, understanding one simple thing: by preserving Russia’s territorial integrity as a result of a lost war, the United States would have more interest than China.
Thus, by exploiting and weakening Russia, China is ultimately weakening the United States in the long run.
Recall how the Soviet Union collapsed, and how much money and energy the United States invested. Bush came to Kyiv and said, “Do not leave Russia, God forbid,” and so on—the main protector of the Soviet Union.
The same will happen after Russia loses the war, when it begins to disintegrate. This disintegration will start from a simple factor—the lack of money in Moscow and the inability to maintain control over the regions, such as the impossibility of financing Chechnya. I think the same scenario will unfold now.
Piotr Kulpa
Former general director of the Polish public health care system (2009-2014), chairman of the government committee on health insurance reform, former secretary of the Polish delegation in the NATO parliament, legal advisor of the strategy department of the Supreme Audit Office of Poland, worked in many countries as an expert of the International Organization of Labor, World Health Organization, Council of Europe.
Minister of Labor of the Republic of Poland (2004-2005). Since 2018, he has been working as an expert of EU programs on public administration in Ukraine. In 2014, he managed the EU project on the reform of the civil service of Ukraine in Kyiv.
