Enlightened Americans were sad to see the Iranian soccer team underdogs 1 to the U.S. team. (For too long, since the ouster of Mossadegh by the CIA and the Brits in the early 1950s, the U.S. has maligned and tried to control Iran.) Sportsmanship seemed to have prevailed at the end of the match, however, with some of the opposed team members giving hugs to each other. That single goal made by the U.S. was an instance of luck even though the Iranians did not mount a particularly notable offense. But who is really losing this year and going forward: The West and particularly the United States. As an American, it may be hard to say it, but it’s deserved.

Only after the U.S. losses are more of less completed and recognized will it be possible to empathize some with the U.S. or at least those Americans who long have warned that America has for decades been on the wrong track overseas and even often enough at home with the lack of real and beneficial leadership in Washington.

It’s anyway closing in on payback time some might say for centuries of Western arrogance. But particularly for U.S arrogance since the 1960s and the Vietnam War. One can cast back to the failures of the U.S there and later in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria especially. Even in Venezuela where sanctions have impoverished millions. Now, the U.S. is begging Venezuela to restart its oil industry and the puppet Guaido and his faux “government” in exile is all but dead. But failure in Ukraine is front and center now. The U.S. government, essentially taken over by Zionist-leaning Neocons and other ideologues in terms of policy, especially in the last three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, have been utterly deluded to think they could get away with the chaos they have fomented. The best, clearest minds have seen it coming: retribution. And that has hardly just begun is this amazing year of 2022.

The Russians saw the potential for the current war’s outbreak a decade ago and had been preparing for it. The stupidity of the U.S. to reject its promise to Russia NOT to expand NATO eastwards made this war inevitable. Financing what amounts to a Nazi regime in Ukraine with a paid-off clown, Zelensky, made it inevitable. The war could end in a few months, or it could drag on for another year or three in some fashion, but at what cost? The utter destruction of Ukraine as any kind of viable nation, handed off piecemeal to the proper Ukrainian patriots, not Nazis, in the Donbass, or to Poland and Moldova, etc.? (Of course, the ultimate cost could be the U.S. in desperation using nuclear weapons to have its way attempting to maintain a hegemony that for now is fading very fast.) And the arrogance does not stop: the U.S. and Israel conducting mock attacks just recently over the Mediterranean as if to destroy Iran’s nuclear research industry? It’s been reported that in Ukraine an electrician in Kiev rightly declared the war “horrible” and that it’s only going to get worse unless the politicians from the Parliament in Kiev are lined up and shot. And more and more Ukrainians are allegedly claiming very quietly that a popular revolt there is necessary to stop the carnage.

But an even bigger problem looming for the U.S. is the potential loss of favor inside Europe. The protests across Europe against Russian sanctions and enabling to war to continue go largely unreported in the U.S. and Western media. One could almost predict the ultimate demise of the EU and NATO. People like Ursula Von Der Leyen, incredibly, see the destruction of the Nordstream gas pipelines as a GIFT to Germany while its economy goes belly up and bankruptcy and de-industrialization becomes the norm and meanwhile the U.S. rakes in huge profits selling high priced LNG and as well benefits from any relocation of German companies to the U.S. Already there are objections in Europe to the U.S. profiteering.

But the U.S. has virtually lost its unipolarity already. The world is increasingly shunning the dollar for one thing. The Chinese along with its Russian allies are ascending, making deals right and left, and even cancelling the indebtedness of small countries like Rwanda or, in effect, making friends all across the global south. And, of course, the BRICs are in the process of eventually taking on new, eager members not only in Asia but in South America, too. Sometime in the next decade there will also likely be a new, common trade currency deployed by the expanded BRICs that will be backed by a lot more than hot air and mere paper that cannot be sanctioned or stolen.

The biggest fly in the ointment for the U.S. and for some of its allies like the UK, propelling decline as a microcosm for all that ails the West, however, has long been the support for the Apartheid entity in Palestine. Even today most Americans do not understand what Israel is: not a “democracy” but a murderous gaggle of colonizers for over 70 years who have been spoiled by Western largesse.

Many in the West still think Israel is still, if it ever was anything but a mistake, some sort of noble cause: “O, the poor Jews who suffered the Holocaust” … who are no longer poor at all and have the Western media and most politicians in their grip, they horrified at the thought that they might be called “antisemitic” if they so much as lift a finger to throttle back Zionist and Apartheid crimes. But now it appears the Israelis have gone too far in reelecting Netanyahu, who is trying to escape trial for corruption and who to get elected by the slimmest of margins had to align himself with the followers of Meir Kahane. When he was alive Kahane was declared in effect racist scum by the U.S. and shunned. His followers may even be worse. What’s really surprising is that Israeli media and tourists at the World Cup in Qatar have expressed dismay that when they were identified as Israelis they were shunned and harangued by others at the football games. That was refreshing, and also refreshing that at least a couple members in the U.S. Congress are suggesting a cut off military aid to Israel.