We are so deep in **** it is not funny and for the US, hot war is actually the only option to keep some legitimacy
Sadly our clowns here are siding with the losing team, and will be the ones sacrificed for the land of Greats.
If last 2 years and the EU state is not a lesson, nothing will.
For decades, Iceland and Finland benefited of an inbetweeners role between west and USSR
If we were a bit less brain-dead, we could act same between China and the US, benefit economically ,keep harmony and help the world, instead, we are putting ourself as the sacrificial anode in the coming war and adding provocations with our key economic purchaser ....
Russia will get what it wanted from the start: a buffer zone east of Ukraine, making sure its Russian inhabitants ..roughly 50% of Ukraine population before the partition , are kept safe.
We have thrown Russia away from the west and into the arm of China, oil gas pipes are being built as we speak and we managed to ensure no coming key country in the future will ally with the west: Nigeria, India, Indonesia , recently Saudi Arabia, etc etc.
There is more future for a Russian kid , who is at school learning maths, sciences and now mandarin than for a US living kid, sparking spanish, obese, and getting a degree in transgender studies.
Some opportunities can happen once, not like the share market
and the west, actually the EU blew it bit time with Russia imho..economically and politically
Time will tell and we will not wait long for that one: 2 decades max