No Ukraine in NATO, Ramaswamy’s deal to Moscow

The Indian American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy emphasised on not letting Russia fall into Beijing’s lap on Thursday while asserting that if he is elected to power he would end the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war and achieve his goal by making a deal with the Kremlin government.

According to media reports, Ramaswamy presented a strategy that he would freeze the present lines of control between Ukraine and Russia by establishing a deal with Moscow that NATO will not admit Ukraine into it and lift sanctions but in return, Russia would have to exit its military alliance with China, he said.

Ramaswamy’s deal to Russia 

I would freeze the current lines of control. I would further make a hard commitment that NATO will not admit Ukraine to NATO. That’s enough to get Putin to do the deal. But I will require something even greater in return,” the 38-year-old multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur said.

Russia has to exit its military alliances with China. Right now, we’re pushing Russia further into China’s hands. The Russia-China military alliance is the single greatest threat that the United States faces today. And so just as Nixon did it in 1972, I’ll do it in reverse,” Mr Ramaswamy said.

“Pull Russia apart from China, and by the way, get Russia to also remove its military presence in the Western Hemisphere. Get out of the Western Hemisphere. Reopen economic relations with Russia, that’s how we do it,” he added.

Ramaswamy continued, “By extricating Russia from China’s influence and concurrently securing Russia’s withdrawal from the Western Hemisphere, we can achieve the desired outcome. Re-establishing economic relations with Russia is pivotal in this process.”

Ramaswamy on Russia-China relations 

The Indian American has stressed that Russia being cut off from the West by bombing the Nord Stream one and two pipelines and also sanctioning Russia is precisely the reason why China has gathered much power and dominance in the world. “So if we can reopen the Western economic relations with Russia, Russia has less of a reason to be in partnership with China. There are also cracks in the armour of that relationship if you look closely,” he said.

The cracks in the armour that Ramasway mentioned refer to the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line, a project that would run 8,000 miles from northeast China through Siberia, under the Bering Strait, through Alaska and Canada and into the Lower 48 states. However, Russia stands against this project which has brought some complications in the relationship between the two communist nations.

Republican Presidential candidate’s view on relations with other countries

Ramaswamy says that he wants a strong relationship to exist between the US and India. He further commented on the relation US with the East-Asian countries of South Korea and Japan highlighting that this relation will get bolstered in a bid to lessen the United States’ economic reliance on China and Taiwan.

“We intend to forge more robust collaborations with India, including an agreement that would see India securing the Malacca Strait in the event of a potential conflict with Taiwan. Additionally, we seek to strengthen partnerships with other steadfast allies like South Korea and Japan, aimed at diminishing our economic dependence on China and Taiwan,” Ramaswamy said last week.