I theorize that Russia, under Vladamir Putin(who is really a dictator in disguise) is using the Iran situation as an excuse to demonize USA to the rest of the world, and encouraging Iran to provoke Israel & USA into war. China and Russia have had a quickly growing alliance for the past five or so years. Both countries are rapidly expanding their militarily forces and technology.
USA's allies are growing scarce, even some of our "friends" in Europe have grown to despise and resent USA, thanks to socialist propaganda. There has been a resurgence of the communist movement, now under the name of "socialism", with a much friendlier propaganda campaign. It is as though Fidel Castro's business model was used. Capitalism is now being painted as oppressive, in favor of the wealthy, but socialism is being presented as beneficial "for the people". Venezuela and other Central and South American countries have given way to the socialist movement, and taken a step back from USA.
First of all, I think North Korea is an absolute non-player. The US doesn't care about them, neither does the EU and neither does Russia. China has a limited interest as to keep the crazy nuts quiet there and retain some level of local stability.
Looking at our so-called shiny capitalistic democracies, I have bad news for you.
We're in no better position than the Russians and hardly in any better than the Chinese. Why? When things really matter, none of the governments care one bit what the population wants. The US is run by a corrupt elite, the EU is run by a corrupt elite, Russia is run by corrupt KGB connections, China is run by corrupt communists.
All different lables to spur different emotions - but at the end of the day... They're all the same.
And considering the insane amount of crap that the US/Israeli connection has done over the last decades - the Russians and Chinese government nearly fade in comparison and look like peaceful doves (which we know they aren't - but the death toll hiscore of "foreign policy" is clearly with the US).
The "west" propraganda nowadays is just as full of shit as the "east" propaganda. Almost feels like old times.
I think the only real news to take away (which shouldn't be news to most), is that... there hardly are any good guys around. Certainly not in the league of global power players.
And capitalism... well, we don't have that, we didn't have that since decades. Corporate welfare, wealth distribution from bottom to top, mass corruption, state-sponsored gifts for tax-evading megacoroporations. The list is nearly endless. All while productive citizens are taxed to death. Notice something? Apple Corp. for example pays 2.5% tax rate in the US (which after their financial advisors are done they never have to pay up in full). Same goes for large corporations in the EU. Same in Germany, for example. Compare that to you or me and know this is not an accident.
The US economy is run by FED central planners, communist-style, which won the battle over money creation (and power) in 1913. The unelected talking heads here in Brussels are working hard to transform the EU into central planners wet dreams as well. Almost all belonging to their banking masters (most notably Goldman Sachs which helped run Greece and Italy into the ground so far and their operatives in place in many other EU nations already).
Compared to that, the Russians look much more capitalistic, even more China in its special commerce regions (which is pretty bizarre, once you realize it, chinese communists beating even the US to capitalism).
The best advice I can give anyone out there, is to completely disregard the mainstream propaganda machine (TV, Newspapers) as those in our hemisphere are owned by no more than 3 people and are 100.0% streamlined (even the US latenight show Conan started making fun of the streamlined news anchors, which truly are nothing but empty talking heads reading their teleprompter - whistleblowers who quit their jobs there all stated that telling the news like they really were always meant being instantly fired. They're paid to follow the script, nothing else.).
Getting news means researching and verifying yourself nowadays.
In the last decades, just about all decisive and influencial events turned out as not quite as they were told, as soon as they were given a closer inspection. The next major even will likely not be different.
We've come a long way and the future doesn't look right. Therefor, no reason to point at other nations - we got nearly identical issues. Maybe the window dressing is a bit nicer but at the end, it's the same shit (or worse) running in the background.
PS.
In comparison - do you really think a golf player from Kenya with a fake birth certificate, fake background and history - put in place by the establishment that ran the last ~6 presidents of the USA - really runs the show ? He's an actor, nothing more. Like the one before him, and the one before that.
You think deciding between a Democratic candidate or a Republican candidate yields
any significant difference in the course of United States? You'd be dead wrong. Welcome to the american democracy simulation (it's nearly the same shit over here in Europe already)...
PPS.
The USA still has alot of "friends" (= useful tools) in Europe - the other muppet governments that are in place here. But since they're not fully installed yet on all nations, the full support is still limited to a few nations.
When it comes to ordinary and informed citizens, the USA (its government) has lost all credibility and trust they ever had due to their corrupt, mass-murdering and false-flag-based foreign policy. This trust has fallen so far, it is basically non-recoverable.
When it comes to welfare, the USA has long gone the same road as all the other pseudo-democratic nations. With over 100 Million US citizens on at least one type of government benefit program, they're no different, just on another spot of the exact same timeline. Anyone very carefully researching related news knows that the US government is very actively preparing for the disintegration of their social welfare programs and the ever-more-fragile social order. The way they're doing this is pointing to nothing good. It seems they expect the absolute worst-case scenario already to occur in this decade. In that respect, the US is absolutely unique, no other nation prepares so intensively for that day.
I was scared watching the horror of world war 2 how much more if I experience it. 