a good job of summing up all of the wackiness we see daily about how the empire works to rule all, i'd say;

On the eve of the Great Asian War against China, in a rousing speech Biden assured the American people that the war was necessary because China was the most dangerous country in Latin America and didn’t have American values. The Wall Street Journalpointed out that the United States had the most advanced, lethal, best-trained, hypergalactic, and indomitable military the world had ever seen, and the fact that it could not defeat annoyed goatherders with rifles had no bearing on the matter since the Chinese didn’t have goats.

Washington was astonished when the Russian fleet showed up in support of China. It hadn’t thought of this. Nor had it occurred to anyone in the Federal Bubble that if America fired on a Russian ship, America would be in a war with Russia. Not a proxy war. Not a regional war. Not a limited war. A war. Everywhere.

This didn’t worry anyone, because Washington knew that America had the best-trained, best-armed, most advanced, and most hypergalactic military in the universe. All recent military history supported this understanding, unless you had read it, which nobody had. Further, the New York Times demonstrated that the Russians, then occupying Kiev, were badly trained, poorly equipped, suffered from poor morale, and wanted to overthrow their government as well as divide Russia into five countries under Washington’s control. The Times was famously independent of government, so no further investigation was thought necessary.

Washington had also forgotten Iran. Unfortunately for those in the Potomac Bubbylon, the Iranians — no fools — knew that Washington lacked the manpower, training, munitions, public support,  and industrial base to fight two major wars at once, and probably even one. The mullahs of course had huge stockpiles of missiles and an army not rotted by LGBT, affirmative action, lack of readiness, and impossibly inadequate logistics. So when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Syria, Iraq, and all the militias that wanted the US out of the Middle East attacked  American bases in the region, Washington was sore amazed.

Congress, as it turned out, had forgotten that Russia had a large, combat-hardened, experienced, well-trained, and well-supplied army in — who would have thought it — Europe, along with a functioning military-industrial base as well as massive artillery and air support. This Russia was also aware of the inadequacies of the hypergalactic, indomitable social-engineering aquarium that the American military had become.  Russia also had actual combat experience with hypersonics, which America didn’t have — either the missiles or the experience, — and Europe didn’t have tanks or ammunition because it had sent them all to Ukraine, where the Russians had blown them up........more........