All they had to do was do this in the first place, arrogance before pride

Russians will not settle for some Trump handshake pact good till January 20, 2029, when Trump leaves office. It will have to be a permanent accord, agreed to and ratified by USA, all of the EU, and UN. Once the West reorganizes, this struggle cannot be repeated…

I refer to this as an enormous, irreparable Western failure on a much larger scale, which is unmistakably indicative of an empire that is fast coming to an end. A frequent expression for the saying “arrogance before pride” is “Pride goes before ruin, and a haughty mind before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18). The Empire has been mortally wounded…

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