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GWYNNE DYER: Are we seeing the decline of the U.S. as a superpower?

With no allies rallying around the US war with Iran, the United States reign as a superpower could be at its end - but who comes next?

“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.”

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Familiarly genocidal threats from Donald Trump, with the trademark mobster-style “NO MORE MR NICE GUY” at the end. Amazing how fast you get used to it.

There may be another ceasefire by the time you read this, or 92 million Iranians may be learning to live with no electricity, little food and no water. (In other rants, he threatens Iran’s desalination plants and its bridges, crucial for getting food to the cities.) In either case, the regime’s leaders, all survivors of his assassination attempts, remain unyielding.

Trump regularly has “good conversations” with the civilian and Islamic Revolutionary Guard leaders, many of them entirely imaginary. But just beneath the surface, he’s as frantic as a trapped rat, unable to understand why the Iranians won’t give in, although “they have no cards”. (Wrong: they have weapons, patience, faith and, above all, favourable geography.)

He can’t admit even to himself that Israel’s Prime Minister........

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