Cause and..

 

Washington and its allies made some misjudgments about the Ukraine/Russia conflict. They underestimated the neutral stance of China and several other countries such as India and Brazil, in addition to several countries on the African continent, for example. 

And the worst: they also provided the beginning of the acceleration of the de-dollarization of the world economy with the economic sanctions against the Russians, uniting the objectives of several countries that already questioned the supremacy of the dollar as the dominant commercial transaction currency. 

A supremacy’s downfall could certainly take decades, but that seems to be already underway.
       The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict could never gain the international proportions that were generated from the action of the Washington-Brussels Axis.

 Their actions have directly impacted Europe, which bears the brunt of the consequences while the US benefits economically from Russian sanctions and Europeans suffer as much as Moscow from their actions and effects.