Can you please stop your ultra-nationalist bullshit here?
Not me, you can appear nationalistic since you base your writing on propaganda you heard most often so far and not independent facts.
Like it or not, America is still a major economy with the strongest military in the world by a long shot.
That's true,
but on paper only. Because that 'strongest military' couldn't defeat or coerce even Houthis and protect their own shipping interests, in the Red Sea, just a short while ago and your CIA-controlled Orwellian media didn't report that I guess to maintain the brainwashing psyops that they are doing to you guys non-stop.
Don't let me get started on Vietnam (withdrawal), Afghanistan (withdrawal), Iraq (In Iran's hands today), etc. Remember, military power and wars are useless if you can't use them to accomplish your stated or implicit
political objectives, which the US can't seem to do.
For example, in the end, basically, it was mainly Turkey's support that overthrew Assad and some internal infighting and weak spirit, not the actual US military. Before that, they got their bases there attacked daily, as in Iraq, for some time, and were about to withdraw just like from the aforementioned countries above as well.
I guess they managed to militarily defeat Serbia
only in recent times, but the caveat was that we were 100 times less numerous than NATO, surrounded, in the unipolar moment, and didn't have the resolve of the Taliban or Vietnamese. And that's the US's 'clearest victory' if you look at it from the current time perspective now.
America has a lot of influence on the world stage and has a lot of technology and IP that China still relies on. Less and less each year, but it's still there. China should be lucky that America was slow to wake up to the China threat and didn't go for the industry ending sanctions right away, but instead in piecemeal portions that allowed China to adapt. You think China would like it if America started to strangle every industry the same way that they did semiconductors? Especially western dominated areas like aviation?
Yeah, they would actually like it. Remember, how those same sanctions basically skyrocketed the Chinese domestic chip sector already?
And China is I think currently even more advanced and secure in the aircraft manufacturing industry than it was in the chip industry, or else they would have sanctioned them already.
Basically, regarding aircraft manufacturing, it seems that even Americans know that the sanctions would just 100%
help China quickly.
Becoming a laughing stock of the world, lose tens of thousands of men, become stuck in a 3 year long war with no end in sight and have a decent wartime economy that will struggle as soon as the war ends? When Putin could have waited for Trump to take office in 2025, dismantle NATO and take Ukraine with much less international support. Truly 4D chess here.
No, the EU became the laughing stock of the world, or you base the "world" on 15% of the Western share of the global population? Russia hadn't been this respected and influential in the international scene since the USSR's glory days. Something that can't be said for the current West, and especially the EU.
This war in Ukraine united the Russian socio-political landscape like nothing before, internal stability is never higher, efficiency on all levels of economy and politics never higher, from local to national level, and Putin's support ratings skyrocketed from 70% to 90%. With a very healthy economy and fiscal deficit to GDP ratio.
The thing is that some pressure is good for political centralization, both the civil and military economy, that's why Putin drags the war as much as possible (although they are still winning). Compare Russian industrial and real wage growth to EU, debt levels, etc - night and day diffrence.
