A Foreign Policy Based on Reconciliation

The US made the Ukraine war into a proxy global war threatening the planet. Since 2000, the US has refused to hear Putin's insistence on Russia's sovereignty and security rights. Described as NATO's eastern expansion, NATO increased from 16 to 30 states and encircles Russia on its western border. Sec of State James Baker promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand "one inch to the east."

A hypersonic missile only takes four minutes to travel from Ukraine to Moscow.   The US seems captured by an enemy fixation.  Thanks to the neocons, US foreign policy is driven by scapegoating and power projection.  In Project for an American Century, Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfowitz and others declared "we are an empire and we create our own reality to which all other countries must adjust."

Russia will not lose a war of attrition on its border.  The US is an empire in rapid decline.  China with the BRICS and SEO organizations surpasses the G7 in population and GDP.  China has built 600 schools in Iraq and airports in Africa.  The Nigerian-born WTO Secretary General said: "When we call China, we get an airport.  When we call Germany, we get a lecture."

The US must accept the new multipolar reality.  Nationalist ideology must submit to the higher authority of the UN and the UN Charter to achieve peace and reconciliation.  Reconciliation means relativizing and dissolving conflicts by agreeing on a higher unity.