Did you know that for all intents and purposes the US/NATO is at war with Russia?

 I was chewing on a few things about the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia and arrived at an obvious but stunning conclusion.

The US/NATO is at this very moment committing acts of war against Russia.

We are at war with Russia.

Drink it in.

It's passive, pussified, weak-ass warfare but its warfare none-the-less.

What put me on this trail is the reports that Biden is going to Europe in a bid to "turn up the economic heat" on Russia.  My first thought was geez...what more can we do?

But then I decided to look a few things up.  The definition of a Blockaide via Wikipedia.

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are legal barriers to trade rather than physical barriers. It is also distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather than a fortress or city and the objective may not always be to conquer the area.

I contend that with globalization the difference between a blockaide and the way the West is using it from sanctions is simply word play that will thrill only lawyers.

Russia has been cut off from the world's economic system.

But let's dig deeper.  The definition of economic warfare via Wikipedia.

 Policies and measures in economic warfare may include blockade, blacklisting, preclusive purchasing, rewards and the capturing or the control of enemy assets or supply lines.[3] Other policies, such tariff discrimination, sanctions, the suspension of aid, the freezing of capital assets, the prohibition of investment and other capital flows, and expropriation,[4] even without armed military war, may be referred to[by whom?] as economic warfare.

To put it simply?  

The seeds of WW3 has been planted.  

Without a doubt if another nation or group of nations attempted to do to us what we did to Russia we'd be mobilizing for full scale combat on a scale that has never been seen in the history of mankind. 

The above is why I'm so certain that China will develop an alternative to the current economic system.  It's also why I'm positive that the Europeans will be forced to participate in it as will the Middle East, Africa, S. America, Asia and the rest of the world.

Emotionalism over this conflict will lead to the restructuring of the global economic system.  Leadership pushed too hard and played too loose with the global economic rules (you don't think that every rich guy is taking steps to get their money in a place where govts can't touch it - which will you trust more, a China seeking to become the new world currency or the US that has shown it'll take your shit without blinking twice?)

People in leadership aren't talking about it, but it explains why they have been so leery of China aiding Russia.

Before this decade is over we'll see one of two things.  Further decline on the part of the US or combat with China.

The only other option is to see them rise and accept a diminishing role on the world stage.

The American empire is over.