With diplomacy we could have turned those tanks around and sent them into China. Like what was done in WWII but for Germany. From the very onset of WWII Churchi

With diplomacy we could have turned those tanks around and sent them into China. Like what was done in WWII but for Germany. From the very onset of WWII Churchill smartly appeased Russia in an effort to get Russia to flip and it worked. China is the burgeoning hegemon and the real risk the US dominance. From memory the impetus for the conflict was China sharing US intel about plans to militarize Ukraine with Russia in order to goad Russia into the conflict. Now China and Russia are inseparable. This will make the future conflict over Taiwan infinitely more difficult. Right now the EU is bearing the brunt of the economic costs and they're not wealthy so they'll run out of money sooner. But ignoring the money spent costs; what is being discovered in this war is the efficacy of mass low cost long range drones. It's unlikely to ever be cost effective to defend against this and conflicts settled this way will be immensely destructive. I remember when it was unthinkable to militarize drones to remotely kill people from a long way away, then we did it, and soon it'll be done to us.