Looking at the Ukraine- Russian Federation war, it was lost when the USA demanded that western banks freeze Russia out of the international banking system and they didn’t collapse. We lost any hope of being a mediator, as did Europe. And then we thought that making public statements that Ukraine would be used by the west to bleed Russian military equipment and manpower was our goal would make us look like anything but craven moral cowards, willing to let other people die for our foreign policy. The world doesn’t trust America, including Israel. And that’s a shame.