If, the world survives Ukraine, it will never be the same.

 THE COSTS ARE MOUNTING AND MUCH IS NOW IRREVERSIBLE

IS ANYONE CALCULATING THE COST OF THIS ADVENTURE

The Ukraine conflict has now been going on for 8 months. While we are told that Russia is about to collapse at any moment, the fact is that there may be a lot of other collapsing going on while Russia remains standing. With winter approaching the sanctions that were to force Russia's collapse in months  are taking a possible deadly toll on western Europe, not only shortages of energy but also food. While the governments have sworn allegiance to U.S. policy no matter the cost, the real bill is now coming due.

We can expect severe social unrest and changes of governments all across Europe. It seems no one is immune from the possible repercussions in the coming months.

The U.S. has been able to postpone a more dramatic rise in energy prices by emptying the strategic oil reserve, a reserve that was to be maintained for severe national emergencies, not for political opportunism as it is being used by the Biden administration. Eating our seed corn, so to speak, to cover up this administrations energy mismanagement. That bill is going to also come due soon. It seems that is irrelevant as long as it is after the election.

The other dire result of this conflict has been the division of the world into two economic camps. The BRICS coalition, Brazil, Russia,India, China and South Africa is about to grow with the addition of possibly a dozen new members, including Saudi Arabia. This coalition already is composed of half the worlds population. You could say that the world is being divided into the old established world, and the new younger growing part of the world. A world that is the main source of manufacturing and natural resources. This is a result of the last few decades of regime change and a general distrust of the major western countries. A dismal failure of foreign policy that replaced persuasion and good example with force, sanctions and a example of shocking social perversion in the eyes of the other parts of the world.

We have replaced our example of being the light on the hill to "do as you are told" or you will suffer the consequences. We talk about democracy, yet the world watches as we prosecute our political enemies, censure the speech of those in opposition, introduce election measures that would have been condemned not many years ago.

They watch as massive debts are incurred because the dollar has been the world reserve currency. A fact that may soon be coming to an end. Then there is the shocking embrace of social values that are mostly illegal in other parts of the world and to top it off the assault on children that is an abomination. 

Most of these trends are now irreversible, much of it due to the fact that we, the United States has squandered our hard earned reputation of fair play and a positive example to the world. It seems our leaders, and sadly much of the population has been overcome with a strong delusion as to our present standing in the world. A delusion that will possibly lead to destruction of the existing order in a dramatic way. At best, it is leading to historic changes that can not be repaired, changes that will lower the living standards in the Western world.