The more interesting question is if having the US as a credible security partner has a future.
It's...I don't know what to call it except intriguing, the way you flip from a picture of the US as a totalitarian monolith with tentacles controlling everything, to the US as an utterly impotent former empire in shambles, unable to even be a "partner", within two sentences.
It's kind of an echo of the way Russia has been portrayed in the last few years.
If you didn't mean it that way, ok, but I think it's a common view and common to express it like this.
If the media is an arm of the establishment, the rulers of the country, with a singular purpose of supporting it regardless of policy changes, that is what I'd call a totalitarian monolith.
Now if you don't view things that way, fine, but it seems like maybe half of the politically aware US public is more or less on board with that worldview, except that they identify the "monolith" with the left.
Literally every day recently, I hear, on the radio that is always playing in a convenience store I go to, an ad for a famous person's new show on Newsmax, that is somehow rebelling against (I forget the exact phrase) major media outlets. I guess the phrase "mainstream media" is tired, but the concept seems to remain.
The baseline here is the assumption that there is no free press, that there is no diversity of opinion, and I see that sort of claim made everywhere, every day. By, you know, the brave dissenters.
I wonder if it's so ubiquitous that you have stopped seeing it as a background?
Their objective was to overthrow Ukrainian goverment and take half a country. So no, their objectives definietly will not be met.
Isn't that true?
The only obvious thing accomplished lately is all the death and destruction. It can't have been planned this way.