the houthi/suez debacle utterly and completely annihilated western global hegemony in any practical, enforceable form, forever imagine this: > a multi-national coalition backed by a 50+ ship nuclear carrier-group flotilla, launching unlimited f-18 sorties a day, supplemented by the near equivalent expenditure of tomahawk cruise missiles the us used in the totality of desert storm has done absolutely.fucking.*nothing*.to unfuck the historic closure of the suez canal, or to effect any damage on yemen, the literal last place (((gdp))) on the planet. the most severe, imposing threat the "west" could ever impose: > "we will *glass you* with a carrier battle group and b2 stealth bombers, and there is nothing you can do about it" has irrevocably been exposed as the literal definiton of a "paper tiger" by every measure the threat of *glassing you with carrier groups* was the sum-total of all western, non-nuclear threats there is no "escalation" outside of literal actual nukes, after the "carrier-battle group" card is played. so in any practical or applicable sense its over nato cannot will not and could not "do shit" to russia
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