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[Francis Gaitho @FGaitho237]

THE SHATTERING OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: How One Persian Gulf Nation Is Exposing the Empire’s Fragility While Trump Suppresses the Truth

Barack Obama once famously declared that America is “exceptional” - not because it is perfect, but because it is “indispensable” and possesses a unique capacity to lead the world through strength, moral authority, and unmatched military power. That illusion is now collapsing in real time, dismantled not by a peer superpower, but by a single determined nation in the Persian Gulf: Iran.

As the war with Iran enters its most dangerous phase, the Trump administration has mastered the art of information suppression. While the mainstream media dutifully chases every Trump tweet, photo-op, and distraction, the real story - the steady erosion of American military superiority - is being buried.

The corporate press, acting less like the “fourth estate” and more like a stenography service, has largely ignored the mounting evidence that the United States is being systematically outmaneuvered by a country it once dismissed as a weak, backward adversary.

The most glaring example is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s most advanced and expensive aircraft carrier.

On March 12, 2026, the Ford suffered a catastrophic “fire” that took 30 hours to extinguish and displaced 600 sailors who lost their living quarters. The ship is now docked in Greece for what defense analysts warn could be a repair and maintenance period of 12 to 14 months.

This is not a minor setback. The U.S. Navy’s total carrier fleet stands at 11 ships. Three are currently deployed or in active service, two are in post-deployment maintenance, and four are in scheduled repairs. In other words, America’s “indispensable” global power projection now rests on a dangerously thin bench.

If Iran manages to damage or neutralize even one more carrier, the United States would be effectively neutralized in the region.

This is the brutal reality the Trump administration and its media allies are working overtime to obscure. Instead of honest reporting on these vulnerabilities, we get endless headlines about “productive Iran talks” and carefully staged optimism.

The same corrupt media that once celebrated American exceptionalism is now complicit in hiding its rapid decline.

Iran, a country that has spent decades preparing for exactly this kind of confrontation, is proving that determination, strategic depth, and patience can humble even the mightiest empire. What began as a war of choice by Washington is rapidly becoming a war of attrition that the United States is structurally ill-equipped to win.

The illusion of American exceptionalism - the comforting myth that the U.S. can project power indefinitely without consequence - has been shattered by a single nation in the Persian Gulf.

Trump, left with no viable off-ramp and no credible plan, is reduced to the only tool he has left: suppressing information and hoping the public never notices how badly the empire is bleeding.

The arc of history is not bending toward American dominance anymore. It is bending toward exposure. And the exposure is happening right now, in real time.

[Maria Dubovikova @politblogme]

One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Gaza looks apocalyptic.

Most of the population displaced, in makeshift tents, because Israel is still blocking shelter aid and reconstruction.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Professor Robert Pape…air power expert
TRUMPS STRATEGY WILL NOT WORK AND WILL BE A FAILIURE..

Trump has fallen into an Iranian trap!!

[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

This is What It Means to Have Balls

It’s a kind of psychopathy. That’s the only word for it. They are killing people wantonly. They are bombing schoolgirls — 150 of them. Not combatants. Children. And the machinery of Western power grinds on as if this is simply the cost of doing business.
Thirty years. Thirty years of this madness. And it has cost us trillions. Not billions — trillions. Trillions bled out of the American body while the roads crack and the bridges rust and the living standards of ordinary Americans stagnate or fall.

Netanyahu is a madman. That is not hyperbole — it is a clinical description of a man who operates outside every boundary of law, humanity, and restraint. And Israel, under his direction, has become what it has become: a rogue, murderous state that kills with impunity because it has calculated, correctly, that Washington will cover every crime, fund every atrocity, and veto every consequence.

Trump is an utter disgrace to this nation. Let that be stated plainly. Every word of America First was a lie. Every promise of restraint, of ending the forever wars, of putting the American people before foreign entanglements — inverted. Reversed. Betrayed. He did the exact opposite of what he told the American people he would do. The exact opposite.

Congress? Dead. It does not matter whether it is Johnson or Schumer. These people are useless. They are on the Zionist lobby’s payroll and they have been for decades. They have squandered our wealth. They have squandered our strength. They have mortgaged the future of this country to a foreign policy that serves no American interest whatsoever.

Ask yourself the simple question: why does China have 50,000 kilometers of high-speed rail — roughly 30,000 miles — and the United States has not one mile? Why is Chinese infrastructure advancing at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago while American

infrastructure is literally falling apart? The answer is not complicated. China does not go to war. The United States is in nonstop, undeclared war. War that is never voted on, never debated, never honestly accounted for.

The cost is not just money. It is freedom. It is the steady transformation of this republic into a military state — one that funds foreign carnage while its own people live on crumbling foundations, both literal and figurative.

This is madness. It is shocking, disgraceful, and it is bankrupting the United States, morally and financially. And Trump lied. Every word of it. Every last word.

[RyanMatta 🇺🇸 🦅 @Ryanmatta]

Iran has just activated article 111 of their constitution for the first time in 36 years.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

At the Munich Security Conference this weekend, I told a hard truth. There is no ceasefire in Gaza. The assault continues. Palestinians continue to die. And Trump is issuing glossy brochures about fake future Gaza real estate deals instead of working to end the war.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

For those of us who lost many family members in the Holocaust, it is repulsive to see this suffering weaponised in defence of an apartheid state that is committing a genocide. As my mother, who survived in Vienna hidden in a coal cellar for years, taught us ‘Never Again is for all humanity. That is the lesson of the Holocaust.’

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇬🇧 British surgeon who returned from Gaza EXPOSES a shocking truth about israeli army:

He says: “Palestinian bodies of children returned with hearts, lungs, and livers removed”

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Wall of Tears 50ft Brooklyn mural pays tribute to children killed in Gaza

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

This is what a cover-up looks like -- Netanyahu squirming to explain why he won't let international journalists into Gaza unless they are accompanied by Israeli troops. Genocide? What genocide?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The reason this infant and at least 17 other children have frozen to death in Gaza is because @POTUS, @JDVance, @SteveWitkoff, and @SecRubio are backing Netanyahu’s plan to force Palestinians out of Gaza by deliberately denying shelter and other life-essential aid to 2 million displaced Palestinians.

Tents and other winterized shelter supplies for 1.3 million people are sitting in UN trucks just hundreds of meters from the border. The United States and Israel are blocking their entry so Gaza remains unlivable, setting the conditions for what Israel calls “voluntary migration” when the Rafah crossing is finally opened.

That crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the rest of the world, has remained closed for the last three months despite the ceasefire agreement in which Israel committed to reopen it.

[Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉 @Nermeenalswaisi]

3 replies — even dots — can break the silence.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Tirana Hassan, the new CEO of MSF (Doctors Without Borders) rejects Israel’s claims about the group and explains its importance on the ground in Gaza. Israel has banned dozens of major organizations like MSF for not divulging personal details of their Palestinian staff. MSF says it is because the staff are at risk of being targeted.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Father Bashar Fawadleh, parish priest of Christ the Redeemer Church in the Christian village of Taybeh, delivers a powerful Christmas message, sharing the lived reality under occupation and settler terrorism in Palestine’s only entirely Christian village.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.

The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide is still ongoing. I could have never imagined writing hundreds of pages and giving hundreds of interviews on such a crime and still seeing it ravaging over two years on.

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

If you see this video, put a dot to break the algorithm.