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Ukraine after Afghanistan and Syria... Washington's influence is declining in front of the new poles

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed once again how the hegemony and influence of the United States and the West have been steadily declining for two decades, and how their allies are losing to the allies of the emerging international poles

By abdoPublished 4 years ago 3 min read

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed once again how the hegemony and influence of the United States and the West have been steadily declining for two decades, and how their allies are losing to the allies of the emerging international poles, such as Russia and China, and expansionist regional powers such as Iran, and even to coherent local forces such as the Taliban, which formed the new scene after years. From confrontations in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a, and finally in Kabul when the US-backed Afghan government lost power, despite Washington's direct military presence.

The world is changing, then, emerging international poles have begun to challenge American control and impose their influence in their regional surroundings, where their national security requires, Russia is daring a military invasion in Eastern Europe, for the first time since World War II, Moscow's surplus power in recent years, has begun to appear In Syria, Libya, and now Ukraine, China is watching Ukraine with an eye on Taiwan!

So did Iran in its regional surroundings, starting from Baghdad to Beirut and Sana’a. Only the Arabs are still waiting for relief and attaching their defeats to cosmic conspiracies, unable to find a formula for revival, and bridging their tribal and sectarian differences, which may lead them to wither or dissolve in neighboring nations. Also, most of their regimes, and many of their revolutionary and political elites, are still stuck in the American dungeon, they do not imagine any way to manage the conflict and victory, except begging for aid from "Abu Ivanka", waiting for American tanks to emerge from the "Ain al-Assad" base and return them to rule in Baghdad, They ask Washington about the date of overthrowing Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and in the Arab Gulf there are those who rely on Washington in the face of Iran! In his last speech, the Ukrainian president says, “No one wants to fight for us,” a naive phrase that is rarely heard except from “our Arabs” in Iraq and Syria, or from a comedian who turned into a “politician”!

Proceeding from the “Iraq lesson,” Washington appeared before the “malicious dilemma” in Syria, as Hillary Clinton called it in her book. They want to put pressure on the military regime and bring down its most important cities, but at the same time they fear the security vacuum after Bashar al-Assad, and they fear the fighting of their undisciplined allies in the opposition factions, as was the case in Ghouta between Jaysh al-Islam and the Rahman Legion, while they are under Assad’s siege! The Americans also want to fight the jihadist Sunni organizations, which attacked their country on September 11, and fought their soldiers in Iraq, and at the same time they want to confront the expansion of the most effective ground force in their fight, namely, the Shiite militias backed by their enemy, the Iranian regime!

The world is changing, rising international poles have begun to challenge the American hegemony and impose their influence in their regional surroundings, where their national security requires

Frankly, this is not an invasion, but rather a trivial thing in relation to the actual invasion that we witnessed at the time of the American invasion of Baghdad, and how bridges were flying and destroyed, and how missiles were falling on shelters. I mean, the Russians are really ruthless and do not understand anything about the science of invasion. They have to learn from America and Britain

The next is worse, waiting for America. The yellow dragon is still not in the game yet. Al has become hard on America and lies between the jaws of the Russian bear and the Chinese dragon, oh my eyes Hahahahaha

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