The Russia-China 'Strategic Alliance' which post-Ukraine invasion generates serious concerns from Europe to Indo Pacific in terms of disruptive potential can be unraveled by the United States in one diplomatic masterstroke with Nixonian contours.
Russia and China are not inseparable strategic "Siamese Twins" joined at the hip. They seemingly stand glued at the hip due to convergent 'siege mentality' fears that the United States is intent on dismantling both these gigantic Communist States.
Russia would never have moved into the Chinese strategic embrace but for US 'Cold War Gladiators' on Capitol Hill in Washington. Even after the disintegration of Former Soviet Union they persisted in viewing enfeebled Russia as a 'Critical Threat' to US security interests and global influence.
It needs to be recalled that Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev in the 1990s termed Russia as the 'Natural Ally' of the US & West.
United States narcisstic obsession with China which had its roots in the 1930s and earlier, in United States 'Threat Assessments' on Russia overlooked the looming and threatening 'China Threat' whose central thrust in late 1990s was an exponential buildup of China's military power unnerved by Gulf War I and US Humanitarian Interventions in Serbia,
Realistic US diplomatic and strategic planning then should have dwelt on a 'Spectacular Reset' of United States Russia Policy.
But that was not to be. Instead of besieging Russia by a 'NATO Creep' towards Russia's borders and allaying Russian strategic fears, the United States continued vainly for two decades to assist China to integrate itself into the world order. China double-timed the United States all along.
US diplomatic miscalculations have inflicted heavy strategic and geopolitical on American national security, especially in the Indo Pacific.
United States by not resetting its Russia policy in the first two decades of the 21st Century is now faced in 2024 with a US-created "Predatory Monstrous China" which has ensnared a strategically helpless and US-isolated Russia.
Concluding, all is not lost for the United States. The United States needs to take the diplomatic initiative for a bold and substantive political reachout to Russia.
If the United States by a Nixonian masterstroke could wean away Communist China from the Former Soviet Union, the United States has the diplomatic skills and leverage in 2024 to wean away Russia from the China-embrace and unravel the Russia-China Axis.
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