Great Western powers are on the skids thanks to Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work at a damaged residential building in the town of Serhiivka southwest of Odesa, Ukraine, July 1, 2022. [AP Photo]

Unusual happenings show that big powers have lost bearing and suffer individual upheavals. They attack each other, gang up against one, and reevaluate the meaning of threat. With hegemonic tendencies disappearing, they are on the skids.

Russia, the focus of Western ganging up, attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and found it rough 'winning'. Ukraine is a proxy battleground for unfinished American-Russian Cold War confrontation. By invading Ukraine, however, Russia seemingly applied the Bush Doctrine of self-defence through pre-emptive strikes to eliminate perceived potential threat before it actually materialises.