Russia Ukraine war, page-217270

US colonialism since the Bretton Woods agreement
is not about "stealing land" but instead skimming
profits from global trade vis the USD (Reserve currency status)
and for US Multinationals having access to the natural
resources/services wealth of other countries.

But this war is simply accelerating the inevitable:
-that the USD will loose its Reserve Currency Status
about 5 years earlier than it would have without this war.

Over the past 20 years the Greenbacks Reserve currency status
has permitted the US to print over $6 trillion USD which were
promptly dispatched to overseas central banks, the BIS and
Multinationals thus avoiding massive US domestic inflation.

But this war has simply shone a light on that; so much so
that the BRICS (& others) are in the process of a trading currency
other than the USD and its rumoured that that will be partially
backed by gold....something that Nixon stripped the USD of in the early 1970s
when the expense of the Vietnam War was coming home to roost!

The comprehensive economic/financial/trade sanctions bunged on
Russia by the West led by the USA has sent a reverberating shot over the bows
of the BRICS fearing ditto if they were to oppose US foreign policy let alone be
involved in war. NK & Iran is evidence of that.

So where does that leave Uncle Sam, one might ask, going forward.

IMO its swamp Russia & China (particularly China) economically
and if that's a squib, then an all out war.

This why, IMO, Aus should be a peace maker/peace broke ; not riding shotgun on Uncle Sam's stagecoach!

rationale: The Country with the biggest GDP sustained over a generation eventually will become
the global hedgemon, IMO.

History teaches that.