Afrasianet -  Mounir Shafiq - The Russian response to the bombing of Kyiv, on Monday 10 October, was wise.

That was when he did not resort to nuclear power in return for the painful military strikes that were directed at him, especially the bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and the Russian mainland.

It is a response that is considered “light” from a military point of view, compared, for example, to the preliminary bombing of Iraq by the United States of America, whether it was in 1991, or in 2003, or if it is compared to the bombing of Beirut in 1982 by the Zionist entity, supported and blessed by America. .

Of course, there was an international uproar over the Russian bombing of Kiev with eighty missiles. US President Joe Biden considered it a horrible, brutal bombing.

In fact, it is still within the conservative Russian strategy towards civilians and infrastructure. And the military commentator would believe if he accused this strategy of being restricted, for eight months, to the consideration of civilians, fighting half a fight, and half a war.

Perhaps this is what US President Vladimir Putin meant in one of his statements, when he said, “The grandfather has not yet begun,” and he meant the war in Ukraine.

There is no doubt that America and "Atlantic" know this, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accepted them. However, this knowledge did not prevent Russia from being reprimanded, throwing all possible military weight in support of the Ukrainian army, and encouraging it to push the war to its end.

That is, achieving the goal of inflicting a humiliating military defeat on Putin and the Russian army.

Then move to open the front of China. When America and the West make the goal of the war in Ukraine to defeat Putin and Russia, they are going to escalate, escalate, and even reach nuclear.

And that is if Putin cannot deter them with conventional weapons. And he has not yet descended with all his weight, and the evidence is that he moved to something like serious, directing 80 missiles in one day to Kyiv, and then the subsequent bombing that started to intensify, to include several other cities.

In response to the Russian strikes, Biden vowed to escalate the armament of the Ukrainian army with the most advanced anti-aircraft and missile weapons, and with more tactical offensive weapons.

Germany and Britain did the same.

In short, this means that America is "on its head" and wants to go to the end. Biden attached this escalation to pressure on China through the Taiwanese company "TSM", the largest producer of electronic chips, which will stop its export to China.

This is in response to the US conditions against companies that do not respond to stopping trade with China.

This means, in a nutshell, that America is also "rawing its head" against China, and is going to decisive action with it, not waiting for the end of the war with Russia.

Here, it should be noted that America is escalating against Iran as well, whether in terms of increasing sanctions, or seeking a global mobilization to interfere in Iran's internal affairs, by exploiting the Mahsa Amini case.

The remarkable phenomenon in this escalation that leads to world war, if it is not stopped, is represented in the popular and elitist Western behavior, which does not raise the voice of protest, against the American policies, which threaten the world with a war that will not remain and does not falter.

Because it is not possible for America to achieve its goals against China and Russia through sanctions, and only conventional wars.

The evidence is that America and Europe continue to pour oil on the fire in Ukraine, as well as continue to provoke China and push it to occupy Taiwan.

This is what it did with Russia in Ukraine.

That was when Ukraine began arming and training its army to levels that threaten Russia's national security, which forced Putin to intervene to put an end to it with military operations.

He despaired that all his attempts to neutralize Ukraine would be responded to by stopping this threat, about which he cannot remain silent.

The war in Ukraine showed that it was an American war, and as soon as it broke out, it started fueling it.

And this is exactly what it is doing with China in Taiwan, through visits by members of Congress, and conducting a number of military exercises, as well as the problem of preventing access to chips, which pushes China to war.

These two tracks, if America continues to pursue them, as it is doing now, the war that begins without the nuclear ceiling, may break this ceiling. No one in the world could not take this possibility into account.

And here there is a big question, how can the popular and elite move, first in the West, to denounce these American-European policies (primarily Britain and Germany).

It is true that Western peoples in the past, and still do, support their countries in the wars they are waging.

It is true that the voices protesting against the war policies were mostly marginalized. But it had some effect. And sometimes it was confusing the politics of war, especially in the Cold War era, and in the fifties of the twentieth century, in particular.

It is true that the form taken by the Ukrainian war appeared as if the cause and the aggressor were Russia, and as if the Ukrainian people were the oppressed.

But eight months of the war have proven, with irrefutable evidence, that America and "NATO" want war to the end, as well as with regard to China, which the United States has been pushing to invade Taiwan.

From here, the whole world stands before a real threat from which no victor and the vanquished will emerge.

There is no choice but to pay close attention to it, and not carry any illusions around it. America, in its attempt to defeat Russia, hastens to reach a nuclear confrontation, as well as in its attempt to defeat China, it will push the conflict to nuclear war. Nevertheless, America is determined to win on both fronts.

This insistence will lead, if not stopped, to a global catastrophe, where there will be no hour of regret or retreat, which necessitates action and raising the voice at home in America and Europe, first, as in the whole world.