I wish this war would end and no matter who claims “victory” because the human costs are very real. The only “winners” I see are China and our military industrial complex.
Beyond the loss of life and all the misery, my children are LESS safe today because of this, our nation is further in debt, Ukraine is destroyed demographically (and literally), and the other world nuclear superpower is less stable with hardliners growing in power.
The active conflict will end at some point, but the new cold war has just begun with geopolitical possibilities for America that were not likely two years ago. The infrastructure of America is falling apart and inflation is rampant but it is certain we will borrow tens of billions of dollars to rebuild the Ukraine.
The growth of the BRICS nations is also an outcome here. For many countries, they saw what the United States did to Afghanistan and are frankly sick of our bullcrap. They are actively seeking an alternative and are creating a bipolar world away from the influences of the West. The fact that 130 nations were recently represented in St. Petersburg for an economic summit indicates that the world is not on our side.