Just follow battleground reports. People can't lie for long about who holds what ground.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

He might have said it. The thing is, everyone now knows America , and Europe, no longer have the stomach to be the police force of the world.
Ukraine and Taiwan have shown this.
America will just adopt the role of arms supplier, as it already is to Israel.
The outcome of the conflict is not really important in wider world conflicts, as long as the arms companies get paid.

I disengage, I turn the page.

Coz the sanctions blew up in our faces didn't it ?

Soaring energy prices and cost of living crisis in the rest of the world.

That did for 'em

I disengage, I turn the page.

I want to come back on this because there's another point that I think is relevant to this specific aspect you raise.

America is very much split into two divergent camps politically so they are always going to have problems with cohesion over major foreign policy decisions like funding other people's wars.

However, the major point to America's influence reducing on the world stage is financial reality.....some can point to 'woke' being unpopular in much of the non western world....but states will look the other way if you pay them.

No, the real threat to globalisation and the slow march towards joined up world government that so many neoliberals and leftists want is financial.

Both China and the US can't continue their economies in quite the same way....the US sooner than China but both are storing up considerable trouble for themselves.

That's the way back in for the natural state of man, which is the nation state and small 't' tribalism.

In time the 'woke' gets put to sleep......because the hegemony
of the US falters both culturally and financially.

Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Dec 2023 6.18pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

As was stated by sensible people Ukraine could never win a long attritional war against Russia.

This should have been negotiated a long time ago and hundreds of thousands are dead because of low quality elites who seemingly can't play chess and operate on emotional response and high risk strategies.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 Dec 2023 5.23pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

As a proud 13 year old lad I watched you and your comrades sail off from Southampton. What our forces, dead and alive, achieved was the last roar from the British lion. You were part of a different nation that is rapidly disappearing before our eyes as older men.

If Milei intends to take the Falklands it'll be years away as of yet. He would need to build his military to do it as the island has been built up.

However the threat has always been real and it's always been a matter of time before it's attempted again.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 Dec 2023 6.08pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)