Washington and its NATO allies are grappling with the failure of their strategy to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. The recent agreement between Russia and North Korea has added to their dismay, invoking a sense of Stockholm Syndrome among Western policymakers who fear that increased hostility towards Russia and its allies, such as China and North Korea, could lead to catastrophic consequences. Initially, Washington had hoped that Russia’s significant military losses and the barrage of sanctions would cripple Moscow and force it into submission, paving the way for the United States and its NATO allies to dominate the region.

For the Western military-industrial complex, which has been making billions of dollars from Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine, there is growing fear as Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House is likely to end on November 5. The next US president, potentially Trump, may simply withdraw from Ukraine and stop burning American tax dollars. As almost every policymaker in the West is directly or indirectly benefiting financially from the military-industrial complex, they have a primary responsibility to ensure the continuous flow of income for these complexes, for which running wars and hostilities in multiple nations is essential. With this mission, the Pentagon has been enthusiastically pushing forward its agenda of preventing “Russian expansion” by encircling Russia with NATO nations covering most of its borders. However, lawmakers in the US Senate and Congress already consider Ukraine a........

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