The establishment are in a tricky situation now, backtrack a few decades ago the West had almost succeeded in destroying any threat of Russia being a free nation, Putin wasn't factored in. Russia was done as far as they were concerned and it was time to start the dismantlement of the US as there was no need for a strong US once the only credible threat to their agenda seemed eliminated.
Jump back to 2018 and we have the US crumbling from within, poverty and substance abuse is wreaking havoc, infrastructure is collapsing, economy is kept afloat with junk and the US dollar is being increasingly abandoned. I believe this is all going to plan but what isn't is the fact of a resurgent Russia, asserting it's authority not only in it's near abroad but also across the Middle East, as well as displaying a new range of hefty weapons upgrades. Couple this with the rise of China which is happening much faster than the establishment anticipated, with China now making inroads in the reserve currency sphere which no one suspected they would truly be capable of until much later, as sick as the Dollar is.
The grand plan of destroying nation states and forcing them to become reliant of a global body controlled by a few criminal tapeworm bankster psychopaths is unravelling, as well with the emergence of Bitcoin they are on defence from all angles. Going forward we are going to see what comes out of the West is increasingly erratic as the situation gets more and more out of their control. I don't believe they will start an all out war with Russia and China because they simply won't win, no one will, but they will bring us damn close as they try to call their bluff and try to hold onto control with bullshit and lies.