@augustus consider: one wins most of the engagements yet loses the war... when you see this, you are not looking at battles as we've known prior to the Korean war -- then you can be almost certain that you're looking at a kind of social engineering.
Countries that "beat" the US and friends look quite different after to what they looked like before.
... this is much of the same, but the engineering is projected outward, hence millions marching in the west over squabbles in squiggly letter land.