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I know a good deal about Russia. I firmly believe had the US not invaded Iraq the Russians would not have invaded the Ukraine.
The message to the World from that invasion is that the US did not care what the rest of the World thought, and the failure to find WMD, the supposed reason for the War, has led the rest of the World to conclude the War was just naked aggression.
Similarly, the rest of the World will rightly regard US support for Israel's catastrophic infliction of civilian casualties (which have gone far beyond any rational relation to the events of October 7th) as an indication that despite our rhetoric we do not care about civilian casualties.
This makes our support of Ukraine - certainly the right policy - appear hypocritical.
The Iraq War was an inflection point in the post Cold-War World. This will be too. The rest of the World will regard as proof that US leadership is weak, and its rhetoric meaningless.
Taken together the Iraq War and the events are a catastrophe for humanity.