I think the main lessons of the Ukraine proxy war are:
1. Never let neoliberals run a war
2. Never ever ever trust America or its vassal states
3. No more half measures, Walter.
I'm laughing my ass off at all the libs saying the USAID getting defunded is part of Putin's master plan, like he's Palpatine or something. But in all serious, WTF is going on?
Is this some kind of failson vs failson internal civil war where the libertarian failsons (Musk) genuinely believe that USAID and the NED are helping colored people and that's why they need to be defunded? Versus the Kagan neocon failsons who know that the NED/USAID are designed to destabilize America's enemies.
I'm starting to think that Chris Hedges was right when he said that America will last for 15 years at most back in 2018.
Not gonna lie, I find it genuinely hilarious how worms like Mette Frederiksen and other Altlantists still dream that they are independent when they are actually complete vassal states of the American empire. Vassals that America has shown time and time again will be discarded whenever the empire feels like it.
Imagine if Trump ends up inadvertently bringing down American hegemony over the planet by pursuing rabid jingoism against America's own vassal states and global institutions. Truly the harm reduction candidate of the millennium.
Also, it would be hilarious if Obama, Clinton, Blinken, and the rest of the war criminals had to watch Trump be America's Gorbachev and reverse all of their work to ensure American dominance over the planet.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I honestly suspect that a Trump presidency might be even worse for Ukraine. Especially in the long run.
Why? Their whole strategy is to basically do a "ceasefire", which would basically be a Minsk 3 and freeze the conflict for a while and allow Ukraine to rearm before a more bloody continuation of the war occurs again. At best Trump might kick the can down the road and cast blame on president Gruesome Newsom in 2029 when both sides go to war again.
You might ask, why would Russia go along with this since they are winning? Because the Russian government is full of neoliberals and has been dragging their feet for 10 years now. It wouldn't surprise me if Russia agrees in exchange for getting the 100 billion back.
I think the last couple of years have really shown what a pathetic POS Zelensky and co are. Like, they are literally sacrificing the future of their entire country and its people for a proxy war that even their master, America, has grown bored of.
If it wasn't glaringly obvious back in 2022, it's basically a confirmed fact now that the entire conflict is one giant American scheme to weaken Russia and shackle the EU to the USA. Seeing daddy America divert everything to the genocidal entity and forgetting Ukraine should be a gigantic slap in the face to anyone still actually stupid enough to think that this conflict is about muh freeDUMBs and stopping evil Putler.
There is a 0% chance that Ukraine will join NATO or that America will militarily intervene on the side of Ukraine (LOL), and even joining the EU is a distant fantasy. Zelensky's 1940s Nazi collaborationist fantasy of Ukraine being the "Israel of Europe" and the imperial core's new attack dog will never ever happen because Ukraine will never be as valuable as Israel is. America is literally on the verge of starting a new disastrous and unpopular war (Even MAGAts are split over this one) over Israel's unquenchable bloodlust. It's both truly sad and pathetic to see idiots laud Zelensky as a great leader while he is sending generations of men into the meat grinder as a kind of advertisement of Ukraine's servility and bootlicking skills to the West. All while Blackrock literally steals everything that's remotely valuable in the entire country.