Trump Has Lost the Initiative
Iran Just Leveled Up to 4th Superpower.
What Washington and Tel Aviv sold as a swift knockout blow has become a grinding war of attrition — and America no longer sets the pace.
The latest Iranian barrage wasn’t simple tit-for-tat. The U.S. struck a tanker and Qeshm Island; Iran answered by hammering American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Erbil and beyond. Hangars flattened, fuel depots gutted, aircraft and radar wrecked. The damage and casualties were far greater — with American blood on allied soil. Trump’s own words said it all: “They were slightly provoked; they were reciprocating.” That’s not strength. That’s damage control.
Far from a setback, this has propelled Iran into a new paradigm. Tehran now stands as the world’s fourth superpower beside the U.S., China, and Russia. Its missiles reached deep, its resilience held firm, and its control of the Strait of Hormuz reshapes global energy.
Crucially, Iran is gradually expelling the United States from the region. Each barrage makes those forward bases more untenable. Gulf allies are recalculating the cost, and the entire architecture of American dominance is crumbling.
This is multipolarity in action. What America meant as dominance only exposed its limits and accelerated the broader shifts underway. The old unipolar era is cracking.
In this round, Iran leveled up.
We are entering a new paradigm.
@noiranwarorg@angeloinchina#USA and Zionists may destroy more medical/pharmaceuticals, universities, children's schools, bridges and railways. Can they ever destroy Iran's defenses buried hundreds of feet underground? If they go again, their economy and the whole world's economy will collapse. #PersianGulf
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At War College, this is usually one of the first nightmare scenarios they run.
The Strait of Hormuz gets closed.
Oil becomes a weapon.
Shipping lanes become leverage.
The global economy starts breathing through a straw.
And remember, I went through this over 10 years ago.
So do not tell me Trump’s strategists did not see this coming. They saw it. They war-gamed it. They briefed it.
Which means he either ignored them, or he chose the risk anyway.
Iran is not a prop in somebody else’s campaign speech.
Iran is not Iraq.
Iran is not Afghanistan.
Iran is not some broken state waiting to fold under pressure.
Iran is a civilization with memory, patience, geography, missiles, proxies, and pain tolerance.
Treating them like a punchline is how empires walk themselves into traps.
🇨🇳 Censorship in China is backfiring now that young Chinese are secretly learning about the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Even with AI scrubbing every trace of June 4, 1989 from the internet, China’s Gen Z is finding the truth anyway... and often in the weirdest ways!
Olympic skater Alysa Liu’s dad was a Tiananmen protester who fled.
When she won gold, Chinese netizens exploded: some called him a traitor, others got curious.
One 20-year-old Wuhan student dropped a hint on RedNote and her comment got nuked in hours.
Teens are stumbling on it through random livestreams and digging behind the firewall.
They come out stunned: “I had no idea the protests were that huge” or “my whole worldview just collapsed.”
The regime’s total blackout is actually creating curiosity bombs.
Young Chinese are horrified when they learn students were shot and tanks rolled over people, and some now want out.
Truth will always find cracks.
Even the Great Firewall can’t stop it forever.
Source: Washington Post
'An ILLUSION to think US the ONLY superpower in the world' — Haabazoka Lubinda, director of UNZA to RT
Iran war has shown that one can 'withstand the so-called GIANT'
'Give it another 5 years – there won't be superpower USA to talk about'
The Greater Israel project... Türkiye is the next "Evil"?!
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