[Serious] Does Trump deserve some credit if Iran...

[Anomalocaris]

Unless that toast is in russia, I guess?

Meanwhile, I don't think that any non eurasian nations power or wealth is dependent on sticking it to some eurasian.  I'd actually point to this -very- ideological belief as the source of the problems in both eurasia, and outside of eurasia as it relates to eurasia.  Just some silly little scuffle about who's gonna stick it to who first, hardest, best, and last.

Nonsense.  That's how it all ends, that's how everyone loses.

no, soviet union or russia are in themselves nothing special and their falling by the way side would otherwise not be worthy of any particular angst, except for the fact the soviet union was the only power that could counterbalance the US.   so the fall of soviet union without either contemporary fall of the US as a disproportionately strong hegemonic power, or the rise of another Eurasian power that could replace Russia in counterbalancing the US, was most likely a historic inflection point towards more problematic long term global future.