Given the amount of dead Russians on Ukrainian soil with nato weapons and ammo in them, I don't think the US is being humiliated here.

I do suspect the US will retaliate in some small way though. Likely stop and board a few Russian vessels in international waters or something equally silly.

That's pretty funny considering the utter humiliation russia continues to endure.

US could just send airplanes to Ukraine or more military aid in response and Putin will be fuming.

> total humiliation of the US

Russia crashed a manned airplane into a drone, and the US is the one is supposed to be humiliated?

Nobody crashed into that drone. Su-27 returned to base intact.

It did crash into the drone (at least from the report) it just didn’t take the Su-27 down with it. Which like… if that’s how you’re taking down drones, well… okay then. It doesn’t seem like a great plan to me but you do you.

> and total humiliation of the US

It’s not at all humiliation to the US.

> which the US cannot do anything about in return

The US could just up the tempo of drone operations in the region, if the Russians want to keep hitting them with fighters, well, even with a pretty Russia-friendly by-unit-count success ratio, the impact isn’t like to favor Russia in the long term.

Heck, the US could just make a comment about the incompetence and recklessness it displays and largely ignore it for the same reason.

> because it is no longer a feared superpower.

If it isn’t a feared superpower, why is everything that Russia does framed in fear of the US?