Conservatives have successfully gained control of the critical levers of political power in the US, so now they're focusing taking control of the culture as well. They will fail in that. But, in the meantime, they're going all-in on culture war, because they've gotten most of what they want politically and economically.

Protesting is useless. Run up to the Iraq war saw the largest protests in history all over the world, and they did nothing.

China has to step in, and that won't happen for years.

I personally have checked out from following the Ukraine conflict.

Monkey puzzle and sequoia