Russia can’t lose and the Ukrainians can’t win. Biden should end this now, but he can’t
"Joe Biden’s early-stage dementia and cognitive decline is a fitting symbol of Western imperial decline. When all you have to offer the world us unending conflict and mayhem, you have nothing to offer. All empires fall as a result of the hubris and complacency that accompanies them. This is what we are witnessing now when it comes to the United States.
When it comes to to the killing fields of Ukraine, what is unfolding is the dying of the old world and coming into being of the new. Here, nobody said it better than Ernest Hemingway: “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currently; the second is war. Both bring temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruing. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
Funnelling tens of billions of dollars into the coffers of one of the most corrupt countries in the world, Ukraine, can be described as many things, but a sound and principled foreign policy is not one of them.
Joe Biden is America’s Claudius. Like his Roman counterpart, he is the accidental leader of an empire in decline, though blindly refusing to recognise the fact and continuing to act and make decisions according to the realities of yesterday rather than today.
Claudius’s reign was succeeded by that of Nero. Donald Trump says hello."