the ukraine crisis is proof positive that america’s time as a superpower is over, highlighting the decline in our hard and soft power foreshadowed by the defeat in afghanistan and the farce of a stolen presidential election.
the failure in afghanistan could be excused away; poor allies, no national will, the challenges of fighting an insurgency. the reality is the US military is a paper tiger. it’s a hollowed out money-pit that can’t actually fight, and is under the control of strategic imbeciles.
https://twitter.com/chernayakoshka/status/1449842244392001543
the threat of american hard power is nonexistent, especially in regards to “near-peer” nations. american military prowess is a myth riding the coattails of the gulf war, but that military hasn’t existed for 30 years. what wears its skin now wouldn’t win that war, or any other.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1494489310082797570
american soft power is equally defunct. corporate media spent six years, two elections, and one pandemic systematically lying for the interests of their benefactors, and in turn have obliterated any claims of credibility. there is no reason to trust anything a journalist says.
what leverage, what sanction can really be inflicted on america’s rivals? economic policy has thrown us into inescapable debt, hollowed out all productive industry, and is rapidly cratering the value of the dollar. the threats of a terminally sick nation will always sound empty.
the world has no reason to listen to america any longer. america’s enemies have nothing to fear, and america’s allies have nothing to rely on. the aging and demented leaders of america watched it reach the height of power, and under their watch, squandered it all.
pray that once america finally implodes, a leader half as capable as putin rises to restore the nation. 30 years since the fall of the soviet union, russia can exert its will on the world and america can only watch. 
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