Game Over

Latin American, African, West Asia and leaders of other parts of the world have expressed anti-imperial sentiments against the US more vocally in the recent past.  The foreign spokespersons of Russia and China have lambasted hypocrisy of US foreign policy, and have laid bare its neoliberal, ugly, cruel and murderous face.  It has nothing to do with human rights or human life anywhere in the world, including within its own borders.  Imperialism is the core of US foreign policy, fueled by extreme austerity for common people domestically.  While there are tents of homeless people under every bridge in America, its leader Joe Biden has sent billions to Ukraine in a bitter, deadly, losing proxy war against Russia.  The proxy war in Ukraine has revealed the hollowness of NATO’s military strength.  Like a true bully, NATO led by the US was able to attack militarily only the weak countries, who were unable to defend themselves.  With Russian help, they could not achieve in Syria what they were able to achieve in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, i.e., complete destruction of these countries.  With that hubris, they prepared for war with Russia since 2014, when they orchestrated a coup in Ukraine, leading to thousands of Russians killed in Donbas region of Ukraine.  The Nazi regime in Ukraine, a pawn in geopolitical game did not honor peace agreements of Minsk agreements and provoked an inevitable war against themselves hoping to join NATO, which was never to be.

NATO and the US miscalculated about Russia not only militarily but also economically in the Ukraine conflict.  Not only the Russian army was far more resilient and prepared for a long-term conflict with its advanced weaponry, the Russian economy too, emerged stronger with negligible contraction as predicted by Western pundits before the start of this conflict.  Now, with over a year of conflict and Russia’s special military operations, Bakhmut has fallen, and Kiev is not too far.  The end is obvious to serious military analysts like the ex-Colonel of US army Douglas McGregor, who repeatedly called for dialog and peace with Russia, but those pleas fell on deaf ears of Biden administration.  Presiding over nearly complete destruction of Ukraine, their puppet Zelensky is losing face and credibility around the world, and this truth is slowly dawning upon neocons and hawks in Biden administration.  Zelensky’s usefulness is over for US hawks, and can be dropped like hot potato at any time. 

It is game over for US hegemony.  Their misconceived Ukraine conflict will become the grave of US imperialist project.  The sole hegemon of the world increasingly finds itself isolated in large parts of the world.  Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are resisting US influence like never before.  A new multi-polar world has emerged that wants peace.  China has clearly emerged as the leader of the new world brokering peace in West Asia, much to the chagrin of US foreign policy makers.  The course of this new world is irreversible, and the US will have to contend with much smaller role in world affairs.