Neither Russia, Nor the Russian influenced central Asian states are interested in giving US any military bases. Russian trade with EU is as vital for EU as its to Russia. China and US have officially been involved in Cold War 2.0 but still the biggest trade partners in the world. Gone are the days of trade bans on rival powers, the global economy is thoroughly interconnected and no one afford to loose trade deals with any country.
Quad is the hoax created to drag India as a pawn against China in US cold War 2.0. The real alliance is AUKUS in the east or you may say the five eyes nexus globally.
NATO in reality hasn't been really tested since its inception. It nonetheless acted as merely a deterrent against Soviet invasion back then. The real nature of Europeans for centuries, the past colonial powers and their descendants in US etc. Has been of deception, hunger of power and greed.
NATO is already tearing apart by sorts of Brexit, AUKUS being parallel to NATO, French trying to make their own circle of alliance, the Turkey-Greece conflict and the personal interests of every country combined makes NATO merely more than a group of thugs united on an agenda to plunder and ruin the world as long as its profitable for them to do so.
These are modern day crusades with just change of uniforms, designations and political setup. They plundered and massacred everywhere, even looted their own tax payer citizens to line up the pockets of modern day Church(Defense contractors) and kings(Politicians and establishment). And history tells none of the Crusades were successful or created any better impact in the longer run for both the fighting sides.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, IMF or economy isn't the core issue for our civil and military establishment. Yes it's a concern obviously they would have to cut down their massive corruption and money laundering to minimal levels to make Pakistan economically viable without meager IMF inputs. Perhaps they would try to broker a similar deal with China or any other willing country with deep enough pockets to replace US backed monetary institutions in exchange of as always national sovereignty or a hired gun. IMF and economy is still a secondary issue for the Pakistani decision makers.
The real primary cause of concern for Pakistan decision makers is the aura of western culture in which all of us have been trapped for decades. 99. 9% of the people who can afford to retire abroad or setup their families and Homes tend to immigrate to the US or any of its western English speaking allies. From very beginning of their career, they start to park their legal/illegal savings in said countries and from teen age every Pakistani trains and dreams of being part of that western culture. The prevalent western civilization and culture upon is the major cause why our decision makers never dare to refuse in front of the west. In this department not even China, Arabs, Malaysia can replace US or EU. That's why even being trolled by west our decision makers still wanna stick to the western world no matter what. Because they don't have any choice besides that.
I don't know who talks or cares about Pakistan's national interest. Pakistan was created miraculously and its surviving miraculously since then. It's one of a kind on this planet.
