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I’m not a fan of this dumb western idea that every war is total war and the victor will always directly subjugate the defeated. Japan’s victory over Russia in the 1890s set into motion the destruction of the Russian Empire; but it didn’t need unconditional surrender to achieve that then and there.

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Some erroneous assumptions make this scenario go WAY off the mark: 1- America does not have a weak military, 2-Iran is getting its ass kicked and will soon be negotiating for peace, 3- America is energy-independent, thus will not be deleteriously effected by rising gas prices in the long run 4- China is suffering economically and is not nearly as powerful as you suggest. 5- Western Europe is becoming irrelevant and is in decline. 6- Eastern European countries are pro-American, are contributing their " fair share", and are staunch allies. We will become much closer with THEM. 6- Russia is a paper tiger, both militarily and economically. Russia is being fought to a stalemate in Ukraine.

I respectfully submit, that these six factors throw off your predictions by a wide margin.

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