“American politics has become increasingly contorted and irrational. I think the thing to do is to realise that we are an empire in decline … and it will continue for another decade or two, until American power finally slips away.” Alfred McCoy is a renowned historian and is respected for his works. His words are not hollow or fragile. Trump should listen to him if he does not want to go down in history as a president who wanted to make America great again but presided over the demise of the empire. But alas, Trump has hastened the end and put it in the fast lane.

Every day, the Iran war proves that Trump is most unworthy of becoming the President of the greatest and mightiest nation ever in modern history, and it is better if Americans realise this sooner rather than later. I agree with Fareed Zakaria when he says that an empire collapses when “it expands beyond its periphery and ignores its core”. In his opinion, this is what happened with the British Empire, and this is what is happening with the USA. Maybe Trump diagnosed the malaise afflicting the USA correctly when he said that America had no business getting involved in other nations’ wars in the past. He promised to be a peacemaker, not a warmonger, but after assuming charge of the White House, provoked by his monstrous hubris, he has waged more wars than his predecessors, and now the USA is so badly battered by the Iran war that its global hegemony is in danger.

The Iran war is an irrational war.........

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