Somewhere last weekend a few dozen former Cabinet members, senior military officers, academics and think tank analysts met to evaluate the world military
US foreign policy establishment blindly intent on beating Russia on the battlefield and crushing its economy. Neither will happen
Nah, the US starts war to hurt competing economies and prevent alliances from forming.
The war might be lost but the mission has been accomplished: Europe is fucked economically for now and a generation of Europeans will grow up hating Russia making it unviable to have close relations.
Europe has been the biggest casualty of the war without a doubt. On the other hand BRICS strengthened significantly, and now there's a whole alternate global economy forming that's outside of US control. It's entirely possible that the mood in Europe could turn against the US as well.
The Author of this article, David P Goldman, sounds remarkably like a Trumper and in fact if you look at their list of articles it doesn't take long at all to get a sense of their beliefs.