Think about it.
First of all, it had to resort to supporting Nazis to overthrow the Ukrainian government in 2014. While Western collaboration with Nazis is nothing new, it still goes to show how far they’re willing to go to terrorize the world. When the Russian majority in Crimea overwhelmingly voted to join Russia, instead of praising the outcome of a democratically held election on the basis of self determination, it condemned Russia and yelled “fake referendum”. So much for their ideals of “freedom and democracy”.
Now compare that to the situation regarding the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia invaded Azerbaijan in the 1990s to support its ethnic minority in Karabakh. Unlike Crimea, that was not done via referendum and was extremely bloody, with the Azeri population around Karabakh displaced from their homes. Now Azerbaijan is taking it back. If the West applied its own logic to this conflict, they’d be praising Azerbaijan similar to how they’re praising Ukraine. Instead Westerners think this a conflict between Christians and Muslims and default to at least verbally supporting Armenia, even though it has nothing to do with religion whatsoever.
The geopolitics are different with Armenia being part of CSTO so we didn’t see the West sending arms to Armenia but the point is you either support the rights of ethnic minorities or you support the “territorial integrity” of a country. You can’t have it both ways.
Then there’s Syria. The West has been accusing Assad of using chemical weapons, even though the UN has confirmed that Syria destroyed its stockpile in 2013 after the first round of accusations came. The West however was apparently too lazy to come up with another lie and kept insisting that Assad uses chemical weapons. Meanwhile the US has actually used chemical weapons against entire cities in Syria in their so called fight against ISIS (not to mention other conflicts like Vietnam) which was actually just a pretense to occupy Syria’s oilfields and stop Iranian support by blocking Syria’s main border crossing with Iraq.
Iraq of course. WMDs!!! 9/11!!! Saddam supports al-Qaeda!!! All just lies and they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of people over them.
The list goes on. There will never be peace on this planet with these insects being able to do whatever they want.
Now Ukraine’s army has lost all its offensive capabilities and Zelensky is asking for more and more weapons. Meanwhile Ukraine’s manpower is getting more and more depleted to the point where they feel the need to kidnap random civilians and force recruit them into their pathetic army.
Imagine the shitstorm that will happen after Ukraine is forced to surrender. It’ll be the second major defeat for the US after it lost in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile China and third world countries are becoming more and more powerful, with many countries in Africa abandoning Western neocolonialism. BRICS is expanding and the world is becoming more multipolar.
Remember, the wealth of the first world is a direct result of the exploitation of the third world. In a multipolar world, this won’t be possible anymore. These conflicts are just the last hurray and last ditch effort for the West to remain relevant.
Don’t forget that Ukraine supplies a quarter of the world’s grain and with it gone, we will see food shortages in Western countries. Which will only worsen the cost of living crisis. That mixed with the upcoming recession won’t end well for the Western world.
The US also has for decades, if not centuries created a system that ensures that its population keeps fighting each other rather than its overlords. See Democrats vs Republicans. This has now gone to such lengths that the latter has been arming for civil war and gone to fanatical lengths defending their favorite candidates that are turning more fascist by the day. It’s the perfect example of why fascism is capitalism in decay. That civil war may actually come and if it does, the collapse of the US is a very real possibility. The defeat in Ukraine will only accelerate this.
With the US gone, Europe will become more independent. I’d imagine some countries would be willing to accept this new multipolar world, while others won’t. The US meanwhile will collapse similar to how the USSR collapsed, except it probably won’t happen peacefully. After that, imagine 90s Russia under Yeltsin and CIS countries but applied to North America. We communists will finally have the last laugh. Too bad that it’ll suck for those of us living in these places.
I would shy away from big proclamations like this. You get it in both directions - people in 1989 saying that the USSR would last a hundred more years, people declaring China dead for the last two decades, etc but big historical events are only ever obvious in hindsight when some research into all of the contributing factors has been done.
While true, I think the difference here really is China. The USSR was the first. It’s failure was baked in from it’s origins and manifested with the failure to transition power to non-deviated communists after Stalin died.
China, however, adopted some rectification processes that allowed it to survive and adapt from failed starting points. It learned from the USSR in this way. It was dicey up until the 80s. But what we’ve seen since then is that they have truly out maneuvered the West.
At this point, the only things that can stop China are an insidious and hidden internal deviation that’s been building invisibly for the last few decades or nuclear devastation at the hands of the West. Barring those two things, China is on track to put the USA into an ultimately untenable position as the contradictions become unresolvable with the space the US has to maneuver. Every country that joins BRICS and the BRI reduces the maneuvarability of the Western system. It’s as though China took grand chessboard theory and found a meta