I predicted this would happen and I'm glad my prediction was right. The US and its followers are making policies and decisions as if it were still 1991.
Most in the west are perhaps shielded from how much the world has changed. But in Saudi Arabia I witnessed the transition in the following image first hand.
This is the impression I've had as well. The formative time for people in the western leadership was the collapse of USSR. And it really does seem like they've never updated their world model since that period. All the moves they make are premised on the idea that the west is more powerful economically and that it's indispensable to the rest of the world. We're now seeing both of those assumptions to be proven false with catastrophic results for the west.
The US doesn’t even make decent networking technology, which is why Saudi Arabia went with Huawei https://www.asiafinancial.com/xi-visit-saudi-arabia-inks-deal-with-huawei-despite-us-fears and Huawei is expanding in Saudi Arabia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-09/huawei-looks-to-move-middle-east-headquarters-to-saudi-arabia
A demo of how fast 5G can get https://youtube.com/shorts/6pwE0OCI7Mo
Another even faster demo https://youtube.com/shorts/0ujcn2bEO0Y
Watching Huawei make a comeback after US tried to destroy it has been such a feel good story of our times.
The neocons from the failed Wars on Terror got promotions within the Blob, so they doubled-down on their proven-bankrupt worldviews & strategies.