There's pretty much no way AmeriKKKa wins this one. The US just doesn't have the capability for that. It's genuinely satisfying knowing that the bandits have looted so much that the imperial war machine is too gutted to even pose a serious threat anymore. I just hope the right people are watching and using this crucial time to make the preparations they need to overthrow imperial yoke in their own countries. If there was any time to do so it would be now.
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The US is definitely losing in Iran. That said, I don't think we'll be seeing a noticeable increase in people seizing the moment to overthrow imperialism, even in much of the global south. The West's (albeit weakened) hold on the world's political economy and various collaborator and comprador elements are still going to be obstacles. Not to mention colour revolutions.
Surely they will still be obstacles, but this is clearly a massive blow to US hegemony following a long string of blows that are starting to really leave a mark.
The end of imperialism has finally come into view over the horizon but the terrain ahead is rough and we have far to go.
Yeah, my view exactly. It's closer in reach than ever before, but will nonetheless take time and work.
Honestly I have been so hopeful that it feels silly, especially knowing how many people suffer from it. Still the empire is dying and it could do so in worse ways so I pray to whomever that they don't do anything like using nukes.
Using nukes would just make everything worse tbh. Not only would it ruin the infrastructure they're trying to take control of it would create chaos in the general region and I think would really push people away from the US even harder. I don't that even the bootlickers in Europe would stand by America after something like that. The Gulf States definitely wouldn't since they're right on the border and would be facing the immediate consequences of something as reckless as going full MacArthur. Even domestically I don't see the average Trump supporter backing something like that. The capitalists especially wouldn't benefit from it since the whole reason they're trying to bring Iran down is to take control of their oil in the first place and they can't sell oil if it's all irradiated and the people supposed to be processing/exporting it are sick with rad poisoning.
The only way I see America using nukes is if it feels like the whole project is coming to an end and setting them off as a last-ditch effort to destroy its enemies. Even then it's debatable whether or not troops will follow that order since there's a lot of heads involved in the whole process of just authorizing a strike, never mind physically launching it. Hell, given the state of our military I wouldn't even be surprised if most of our arsenal wasn't even functional.
Me too, I think it's likely that the US Empire is in for a bad time in the coming years. Still a major obstacle no doubt, but definitely not as much 10 years ago.