Ukraine Inspires CCP's New Proxy War on India

Ukraine has suffered greatly, in the way proxies usually do. In similar fashion, Pakistan is being used as a proxy against India.

- M.D. NALAPAT

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army entered the borders of that part of Ukraine that had not effectively seceded to Russia in 2014. When that took place, the US during the Biden Presidency saw an opportunity to wage a proxy war on Russia through the Ukrainian military.

Since 2014, skillful manipulation of messaging and changes in official school curricula have resulted in a growing Russophobia within the population of Ukraine. Both the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as even Ukrainian names were de-Russified in order to carve out an identity different in such particulars from their Russian counterparts.

In a way, the history and composition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) showcases why Ukrainians began to regard themselves as being not just different but superior to Russians. For much of its post-World War II history, the CPSU was headed by Ukrainians who each became General Secretary of the CPSU, the supreme authority in a party that during its reign was the party of governance in the Soviet Union.

Small wonder that large tracts of land that previously belonged to the Russian SSR were transferred to the Ukrainian SSR. This includes the lands abutting the Black Sea and those tracts in East Ukraine which were almost entirely Russian-speaking.

Given that it was from precisely such territory from which an outside power could mount a land invasion of Russia from Ukraine, it is possible to discern why NATO as an entirety wanted a unified Ukraine that got back all the territory that had seceded in 2014. Or why the Russian Federation was clear that not only should such a development not take place, but the additional lands seized by Russia in its Special Military Operations in Ukraine should be retained as well as fresh land of the eastern territories of Lugansk and Donetsk as well as the Black Sea coast, including Odessa.