The explosion in the early morning completely tore the night sky of Ukraine. The Russian army launched a surgical strike covering 12 strategic locations including Kiev and Kharkov. 407 attack drones combined with a three-dimensional strike combination of 6 ballistic missiles and 38 cruise missiles marking the entry of a new stage of this military conflict for three years. So against the backdrop of NATO's continuous increase in investment, what kind of geopolitical significance does this military operation have? What will the global security architecture be affected?
According to satellite images, the concrete embankment of Odessa port was blown out of a 30-meter-diameter bomb crater, and the ammunition at the Nikolayev military factory also exploded to form a scorched earth area with a diameter of 45 meters. In response, the Russian Ministry of Defense immediately clarified that the explosion equivalent was caused by serial explosions of military facilities destroyed by conventional weapons, which shows that the strike accuracy of the Russian military's military operation has been greatly improved compared with before.
It is worth noting that the paralysis of the Kiev Central Power Plant and Railway Dispatch Center has caused Ukraine's national power supply to plummet and the railway transportation capacity to attenuate. This tactical change of incorporating civil infrastructure into the scope of strikes has exposed the deep intention of the Russian army to try to dismantle the potential of Ukraine's war through strategic suffocation.
The Russian army creatively combined the drone swarm with high-precision missiles. First, use reconnaissance drones to trick the air defense system into power, and then use dagger hypersonic missiles to carry out penetration strikes, forming an absolute advantage in cost exchange ratio. According to the report of the Ukrainian General Staff, the combat loss rate of its active S300 air defense system has reached 83%, and the residual air defense force is forced to shrink to the western border. Against the backdrop of NATO's continuous increase in investment, the political significance of this military operation far exceeds the tactical value.
The NATO Secretary-General announced at the Brussels emergency meeting that member states have reached a consensus on the increase in the proportion of defense expenditure to 5%. This number is not only far beyond the 2% benchmark set in 2014, but also close to the 5% club requirement proposed by Trump. If the standard is implemented, NATO's annual military expenditure will exceed US$2.3 trillion, equivalent to 68% of the total global military expenditure. The acceleration of this arms race has profound geopolitical logic. Now NATO's military facilities have been pushed to within 300 kilometers of the Russian border.
Satellite images confirm that the Finnish Rovaniemi Air Force Base is expanding a reinforced hangar that can accommodate strategic bombers, and the ammunition reserves of the Tapa military base in Estonia are also increasing, and the tactical nuclear weapons reserves in the western Russian military region have increased by three times compared with before special military operations.
Ukrainian battlefield is becoming a test site for new weapons. The first time the Russian army invested the Haiyan nuclear-powered cruise missile, created a 76-hour radio cloud monitoring data over Nikolayev. Although the equivalent is controlled below 300 tons of TNT, the practical use of this tactical nuclear weapon has triggered emergency consultations by the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this strategic game, the situation of the Zelensky government is becoming increasingly delicate. Although the spider web operation he planned successfully destroyed 6 Russian Su-34 fighter bombers, the revenge caused far exceeds expectations. Ukraine's existing air defense system can only maintain the safety of the capital circle for 48 hours. The Russian army has fully possessed the ability to implement strategic beheading. What's more serious is that the EU's military aid delivery rate to Ukraine has dropped sharply to 43%, and the economic data is even more cruel.
In this crisis, the global security architecture is experiencing the most violent shock since the end of the Cold War. Standing at the crossroads of history, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has long surpassed the scope of regional disputes. When NATO fighter jets began to patrol regularly in Estonian airspace, and when the Russian Strategic Rocket Force entered a special state of combat readiness, the world is clearly aware that this military conflict that took place in the Eastern European plain is actually a cruel rehearsal of the reconstruction of the international order.
