Western superpowers risk paying a heavy price in Eastern wars

WESTERN nations are pouring military aid into Ukraine, thereby risking a massive nuclear exchange with Russia.

Nato leaders have never witnessed the horrors of a nuclear war. Putin must also be warned that any nuclear assault will kill over 2billion in the northern hemisphere.

Selective morality and historical amnesia are now part of Western strategy in its attempt to contain and defeat Russia as an imperial European power. When the then Soviet Union and now Russia intervened militarily in the affairs of other nations, the Western Alliance remained impassive.

The killing of innocent civilians in major conflict zones is brushed aside by the West when their allies are involved. Every major power, from Russia to a combination of Nato nations, violated every rule pertaining to warfare permissible under international law.

Weapons outlawed under international treaties, including radioactive uranium-enhanced weapons were used to attain victory, but ultimately the terrain and the combat and survival skills of the Afghans defeated the most powerful nations in recorded human history.

Many international reports have created a dent in the heavy armour of impunity that has surrounded the international pursuit of the war in Afghanistan.

The United States extensively used white phosphorus munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Under international law, white phosphorus is considered an incendiary weapon, defined by Protocol 111 of the Convention on the Prohibition of Use of Certain Conventional weapons as “any weapon or munition designed to set fire to objects or to cause injury to persons through the action of flame, heat or combination thereof, produced by chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target”.

The United States spent a staggering $815billion on its war in Afghanistan and lost its invincible image in a conflict it could not contain or control. It borrowed heavily to fund the war, and has paid $530bn in interest. It paid out $296bn in medical and other costs for injuries sustained by its forces.

As exemplified by its defeat in Afghanistan, the end of US hegemony is in plain sight, as the most powerful nation in recorded history was humiliated by a small band of mountain fighters equipped with their small arms and religious zeal in an epic battle of unconventional warfare that has no precedent in modern combat.

Fortress America has lost the battle for Asia, its footprints have been erased as it licks its wounds and succours in defeat.