If Trump’s Iran gamble fails, the illusion of unchallenged U.S. power collapses

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent an American armada toward Iran, gambling lives and credibility on a dangerous illusion that the United States still commands a unipolar world that no longer exists.

In 1588, the Great Spanish Armada experienced a significant defeat off the coast of England. While the Spanish Empire did not collapse at that moment, it could no longer claim naval dominance. Historians for centuries have recognized the importance of the defeat of the Spanish galleons in the rise of the British Empire.

Are we watching a similar decline of the American Empire? Why is the Trump administration taking such a significant risk?

No one would dispute the power of the American military. Its air force is second to none, its navy is powerful, and it has an enormous cache of nuclear weapons. But everyone else knows it too.

Trump’s confrontation with Iran risks exposing the limits of American power on the world stage.Troy Media

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There are reports that both Russia and China have equipped Iran with air defence systems. In June, tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into a direct exchange of airstrikes and missile attacks. Israel struck targets inside Iran, including military and nuclear-linked sites, and Iran responded with hundreds........

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