Mostly you're right that wars weaken the combatants fighting them, but because of the war in Ukraine, Russia's ties to China, India, Saudi Arabia, and a number of other countries have been strengthened.
They are now in a much better position militarily and financially than they were before they went to war in Ukraine--and we set them up for those alliances when we insisted on stepping in and fighting a proxy war on Ukrainian soil after provoking the Russians by building biolabs (some of which appear to have been experimenting with highly dangerous pathogens) and egging on the Nazi Azov Battalion in their abuse and mistreatment of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Also--the CIA sponsored a color revolution to install a regime that was hostile to Russian interests and eventually put Zelenskiy in power.
Our allies around the globe watched these events with concern, if not outright alarm because they didn't want to be next in the CIA color revolution sweepstakes. This has had serious consequences for us in the world of diplomacy.
If we hadn't interfered, Russia might still have taken over Ukraine (but they wouldn't have had nearly as tempting an invitation to do it), and their GDP combined wouldn't have significantly changed Russia's GDP or economic ranking--and we wouldn't now be in a position where the value of the American dollar is badly eroding on the international stage while Russia and their allies are switching to a gold standard to stabilize their currencies. China is still pretty wobbly financially as of yet and may yet descend into real economic depression, but--the Saudis and others might just be sufficiently motivated to bail them out if they do. It all depends on how annoyed they are by Biden when that necessity arises.
Russia also has access to as much natural gas and oil as they need and they have allies willing to buy their surplus while we're dealing with a headcase in the White House who's shut down major gas and oil fields, starving us of fuel while begging OPEC to sell us more--but only until he tries to force us all to convert to electric vehicles and ditch gas stoves, heaters, and furnaces. This is a recipe for disaster.
The war we should have been far more concerned about all along isn't the war on Ukraine, but the Democrats' war on the rest of us.
Mostly you're right that wars weaken the combatants fighting them, but because of the war in Ukraine, Russia's ties to China, India, Saudi Arabia, and a number of other countries have been strengthened.
They are now in a much better position militarily and financially than they were before they went to war in Ukraine--and we set them up for those alliances when we insisted on stepping in and fighting a proxy war on Ukrainian soil after provoking the Russians by building biolabs (some of which appear to have been experimenting with highly dangerous pathogens) and egging on the Nazi Azov Battalion in their abuse and mistreatment of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Also--the CIA sponsored a color revolution to install a regime that was hostile to Russian interests and eventually put Zelenskiy in power.
Our allies around the globe watched these events with concern, if not outright alarm because they didn't want to be next in the CIA color revolution sweepstakes. This has had serious consequences for us in the world of diplomacy.
If we hadn't interfered, Russia might still have taken over Ukraine (but they wouldn't have had nearly as tempting an invitation to do it), and their GDP combined wouldn't have significantly changed Russia's GDP or economic ranking--and we wouldn't now be in a position where the value of the American dollar is badly eroding on the international stage while Russia and their allies are switching to a gold standard to stabilize their currencies. China is still pretty wobbly financially as of yet and may yet descend into real economic depression, but--the Saudis and others might just be sufficiently motivated to bail them out if they do. It all depends on how annoyed they are by Biden when that necessity arises.
Russia also has access to as much natural gas and oil as they need and they have allies willing to buy their surplus while we're dealing with a headcase in the White House who's shut down major gas and oil fields, starving us of fuel while begging OPEC to sell us more--but only until he tries to force us all to convert to electric vehicles and ditch gas stoves, heaters, and furnaces. This is a recipe for disaster.
The war we should have been far more concerned about all along isn't the war on Ukraine, but the Democrats' war on the rest of us.