US Failures: Is This the End of NATO and American Empire?

You for several years you've offered really outstanding commentary about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and you've you've visited Russia, you know, you've extensively traveled through Russia to promote your book, I believe, and and other things. And the US failed to topple Putin. The US failed to rape and pillage Russia. The US military through, you know, through the proxy of Ukraine and NATO, really failed there. And now it has failed again with the Straight of Hormuz. So this is actually two strikes. Uh, two two failures back to back. And I mean, what are your thoughts on on the pattern that's emerging here? The world is noticing, obviously. I call it Empire terminating event. Um, you know, as we speak, NATO is going through its final death rows. Uh which I think is a great thing because NATO, in my opinion, has no right to exist after the Cold War. Um, and has been sort of the source of much of the problems we face today, especially in Ukraine. Um, but you know, uh Marco Rubio has just articulated that we are probably going to withdraw 100,000 troops from uh from Europe in the near future. And uh that ...