The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy said that by providing drone support to Israel, Ukraine has “effectively become involved in the war.”
Zelenskyy earlier stated that Kyiv has already deployed interceptor drones and a team of specialists to help protect US military bases in Jordan.
Despite Russia’s failure on the battlefield they are still an old imperial power holding vast quantities of land from the days of the Romanov’s. They still hold power over multiple cultures and ethnicities and brutally suppress secessionist movements.
Fortunately the Trump government seems to be putting the American empire into an unrecoverable tail spin as a result of his and his movements almost unparalleled ignorance. We might just get to see this multipolar world, I actually think the future will be bipolar with India and China as the competing powers. The west has had its time.
That’s literally every country on Earth. That’s what countries are. The project of nation building is welding together different ethnicities and cultures into a single unified nation, and sometimes that requires putting down secession to maintain cohesion of a single state. If your definition of “empire” basically defines all countries as empires, it isn’t very useful.
The West won’t vanish either, they’re still going to be very powerful competing powers. It’s likely going to break up into chunks, though, starting with the split that’s emerging between the US and basically everyone else. Then, maybe, Europe will fracture further into blocs. No idea what Canada is going to do, probably get invaded and absorbed by the US or something.
It’s going to get ugly and strange. But, in that ugliness and strangeness, there will finally be space for revolution again.