Click on Owen Jones 'The United States has suffered its biggest strategic defeat since it emerged as a superpower. This is a worse defeat than Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan. It comes after Donald Trump threatened genocide against Iran, which must never and will never be forgotten. It underlines that his continued presence in the White House is a threat to humanity and he must be removed. But that threat itself is part of a broader story which is the disintegration of American hegemony which has three pillars economic, military and moral.
Now you can tell
the Trump administration is rattled. The White House director of communications
has sent me a let's say sketchy message.
Seriously, it's
absolutely wild. We will come on to it. The dangers are not over but US power
has suffered a crushing blow. It's a defeat for Israel, too, whose elite are
currently overwhelmed with fury and humiliation. We'll certainly talk about
that. A quick reminder, this illegal and unprovoked war on Iran was launched in
order to overthrow the regime and crush its military capabilities. has done
none of those things.
And instead has
handed Iran de facto control over the straight of hummus, one of the main
arteries of the global economy where a fifth of oil passes as well as other
essential resources like liquefied natural gas, liqufied petroleum gas,
petrochemicals, metals and industrial materials. Huge damage, huge economic
damage has been inflicted on the West, including the United States that has yet
to be properly felt, but it will be. The West Gulf allies and Israel have also
suffered huge economic damage and the reputations the Gulf States built as
stable oasis of autocratic calm have been totally shattered and that is their business
model.
The US has depleted a significant amount of its military arsenal which was already depleted. Hence the opposition of the US chair of the joint chiefs of staffs the head of the US army to the war being launched in the first place. So let's just go through this shall we? Last night as the deadline set by Donald Trump before he destroyed Iranian civilization that is committed genocide against Iran as that deadline expired the president posted on Truth Social declaring that based on the request of the Pakistani government to hold off from acting on his threat he agreed to suspend bombing for two weeks subject to Iran agreeing to the complete immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz . He declared a double-sided ceasefire claiming to have exceeded military objectives. He also said, "We received a 10-point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable…..’
