It’s already happened. Ukraine’s military is decimated, they’ve lost 90% of their men and can’t mount any further attacks. They were built up from 2014-2022 to be the largest military in Europe, they were destroyed, they were re-built with massive donations from NATO and now they have been destroyed again. NATO has no more juice to squeeze. Russia has destroyed a massive portion of NATO’s munitions and have broken apart the largest military in Europe twice. Nobody else could have done this.

De-dollarization and multipolarity has already made massive strides in just the last few years, as the rest of the world moves away from the west after seeing it’s actions in this conflict. America bought a few more years for itself by cannibalizing and destroying the industrial base of Europe and especially Germany, but in the long run their western bloc is breaking down and weakening. This is unlike Iraq, with those we didn’t see massive moves towards de-dollarization and multipolarity. And unlike the cold war, there seems to be only 2 camps instead of 3 - the golden billion and the other 6 outside the garden walls. The westoids and restofus