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By Nirmal P. Acharya
The direction of the current Russia-Ukraine war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will determine the future world pattern.
With the world's largest industrial country, China, and the world's largest resource country, Russia, strategically bound, the winner of these two wars is definitely not on the US side.
The US, failing to win the Russo-Ukrainian war, will lose Europe. Likewise, without a win in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the US will lose the Middle East. Once the US loses Europe and the Middle East, it will inevitably lose its hegemony and it cannot be reversed.
The US wanted to copy the model of World War II, watching the fire from the sidelines and not entering the war until the final stage, thus becoming the biggest beneficiary of the war. However, the US no longer has the capacity to replicate the World War II model.
It is China that has shown the same strategic determination as the US during World War II, staying neutral in the Russo-Ukrainian war and taking the moral high ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to condemn the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The situation in the US, on the other hand, is atrocious. The US cannot save Ukraine and Israel without going to war itself. If the US enters the war itself, it will be mired in the quagmire and cannot extricate itself. There is no solution to the external dilemma facing the US. Look at the domestic situation in the US: sharp opposition between the two parties, the $36 trillion debt crisis, the hollowing out of the industry, the proliferation of drugs, the proliferation of guns, zero-dollar purchases, LGBT and so on, in fact, there is no solution to these problems.
In fact, the decline of American hegemony is very obvious, but most of the elites in the world do not want to see this fact and do not want to admit this fact. America is now isolated, fragile, and run by visibly incompetent leaders and the American hegemony is like an imperial sunset, hanging on the horizon and slowly setting. At this moment, we can see that the MCC is like a flower basket, placed between the Himalayan mountains, expressing the awe and obsession of some Nepali social elites for the sunset of the US. Or is it a tribute?