The twilight of US hegemony and Israeli expansionism
Protesters gather in Washington on March 28 to join a massive “No Kings” demonstration against Donald Trump amid opposition to the US president’s decision to go to war against Iran.
Photo: Reuters The whole world has come to oppose the Iran war, including most Americans.
Just as Israel took part in the 1956 Suez crisis, which signalled the last hurrah of European imperialism, it is now jointly prosecuting a pointless but destructive war that is likely to spell the twilight of American hegemony.
This time, though, the Jewish state won’t get away so easily.
From the Palestinian territories to Iran and Lebanon, it can no longer hide its Zionist expansionism that threatens the entire region.
The usually spineless European allies of the United States have no choice but to deny the US-Israeli aggressors access to their airspace and military bases.
As German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said, “This is not our war.” Domestic polls show that a majority of Americans oppose the war, not just because they are paying US$4 a gallon for car fuel, but also because many realise, having suffered too many similar wars, that such conflicts only benefit the military-security state and its billionaire backers – to the detriment of ordinary Americans.
However oppressive the regime in Tehran is, it’s clear the US-Israel axis is the real threat to world peace, and not just the global economy.
Perhaps the only silver lining is that Donald Trump has no stamina.
Throughout his career, he has loved a quick buck, and as president, a quick victory.
Unfortunately for him, Iran is not Venezuela.
Even he seems to realise he has messed up big time.
As a result, he has reportedly been musing to senior staff at the White House that he may be willing to end the war without first reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
He even invited the Gulf states and Nato allies – whose treaty defence he now threatens to end – to try to reopen the strait because, as he says, it’s really their problem.
But let’s call a spade a spade.
Iran’s takeover of the strait, if it can last beyond a possible ceasefire, will be a decisive victory over the US and Israel.
The two aggressors may have given Iran a stranglehold on a major route of global energy supply.
And yes, they both deserve all the blame and opprobrium.
However the war turns out, the Gulf states have been betrayed.
They now realise American security guarantees are worse than nothing, because they turn them into targets.
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