• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    that is a good point while this was bad for Russia. Russia have responded with closer ties to China which is definitely not what the US wanted and the way they so openly exposed US financial systems as potentially weaponisable really shook faith in them

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          I get the impression that US misread the moment in every way. They misjudged Russia, they misunderstood their own abilities, and failed to take Global South into account. It’s hands down the biggest debacle US has suffered in living memory.

          • BasedGeorgeJackson@lemmygrad.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            I dunno about that, the US did murder a million people in Iraq and occupy Afghanistan for two decades only for the Taliban to take over in like 3 days when they left. Give it a few more years to develop and then maybe it’ll overshadow those two.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              5
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              1 year ago

              Sure, but those were localized debacles that didn’t affect overall geopolitical position of US. Proxy war in Ukraine has done more to erode US geopolitical position than anything else US managed to do.