What I read from the article is only this: Americans saying "it's our way and nothing else is possible".
And I would like to enter my crystal ball into the discussion.
Putin will kick the living hell out of ISIS and NATO/UAE/Qatar/USA will keep on supporting ISIS, until China gets sick of it (and puts Putin in the corner for a bit and kicks ISIS, rebels and consorts out without even blinking or twitching an eyelid).
ISIS is already big in all the countries that have been illegally invaded, bombed and sanctioned to smithereens and they will continue to grow in those countries to guarantee US influence there. So, logically Putin will be more in action in those countries, while the other BRICS countries continue to grow their influence on the world (markets, economies, cultural, everything). Putin is their bad-boy, their soldier. I even guess he likes it: listen carefully to his interviews and when he starts pointing out political facts (true or not), he is very assured and looks very calm. Like someone who knows what his role is and is perfectly fine with it.
What we see here is World War 3 and it's not really a struggle for more power. It's a struggle to get through all these changes. On the sinking ship things are looted like there's no tomorrow and people are made scared of threats that are no real threats, but mind-spins, views, ideologies. The real threat is within the borders of the west, namely the west itself doesn't know how to lose their centuries long stronghold on the world. It hurts to see a monopoly being open sourced, partly because I am, well, part of it. But somehow I try to look behind all the wars and skirmishes, just a tad broader view of it all, and then I see a different world. Not necessarily better, after all: we're humans, but it might be a hefty interesting place.
What I read from the article is only this: Americans saying "it's our way and nothing else is possible".
And I would like to enter my crystal ball into the discussion.
Putin will kick the living hell out of ISIS and NATO/UAE/Qatar/USA will keep on supporting ISIS, until China gets sick of it (and puts Putin in the corner for a bit and kicks ISIS, rebels and consorts out without even blinking or twitching an eyelid).
ISIS is already big in all the countries that have been illegally invaded, bombed and sanctioned to smithereens and they will continue to grow in those countries to guarantee US influence there. So, logically Putin will be more in action in those countries, while the other BRICS countries continue to grow their influence on the world (markets, economies, cultural, everything). Putin is their bad-boy, their soldier. I even guess he likes it: listen carefully to his interviews and when he starts pointing out political facts (true or not), he is very assured and looks very calm. Like someone who knows what his role is and is perfectly fine with it. What we see here is World War 3 and it's not really a struggle for more power. It's a struggle to get through all these changes. On the sinking ship things are looted like there's no tomorrow and people are made scared of threats that are no real threats, but mind-spins, views, ideologies. The real threat is within the borders of the west, namely the west itself doesn't know how to lose their centuries long stronghold on the world. It hurts to see a monopoly being open sourced, partly because I am, well, part of it. But somehow I try to look behind all the wars and skirmishes, just a tad broader view of it all, and then I see a different world. Not necessarily better, after all: we're humans, but it might be a hefty interesting place.
TL;DR My money's on Putin.