Regardless of what happens in Ukraine, Russia has already WON this war. They won it when they withstood the ‘nuclear’ sanctions by the West and then got, literally, all of the non-Western countries to agree to NOT sanction them.
With that, Russia is now PERMANENTLY aligned with Asia, at least for our lifetimes and probably for the lifetimes of our kids. It wasn’t something that Russia wanted to do, but the cost of joining the Western ‘Family of Nations’ was simply too high (jettisoning their natural resources, particularly energy, and making Grooming a national sport), so they are through with the West and now BRICS is their future.
And BRICS is now the future of the world as the West only has 13% of the population and has to blow up pipelines just to keep that amount. And the BRICS have the resources, the manpower, and the technology (thanks to us giving China everything) - they no longer need the West.
So, to the late George Bush, you never got your “New World Order”, but there will be a “New New World Order”, and it will leave the West behind.
Sucks, and we did have other options, but when people who wanted to fight the above, like Trump, were opposed by BOTH parties, even to the point of rigging an election, this is what you get. And when people in the US, the Neocons, throw everything into a needless war against Russia, you get this result MUCH FASTER than it otherwise would have been.
Lord if this is russia 'winning', what is losing?
Please see #7 and #14.
Excellent points, Bob. Russia has blunted NATO expansion, crippled both the American and European economies, withstood global sanctions, strengthened BRICS all the while exposing the hollowness of our cold war foreign policy. And it’s only just begun.
Who knows if the CIA Spook, GHWB, fully intended for the late Klaus Schwab, WEF/China Dragon hegemony to be the NWO he was grooming us for?
Honorable mention: In the Firefly/Serenity, TV and Film (2002/2005) all of the characters spoke Chinese equally with English. Could this have been a leftist attempt to groom us to accept our eventual Communist overlords?