With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win, says John Mearsheimer.
The U.S. war on Iran has exposed more than a catastrophic military miscalculation: It has revealed an American empire hollowed out by corruption, war profiteering and democratic decay.
Much of the political establishment continues to treat Trump’s rise as though it emerged from nowhere, when in reality it was built upon decades of accumulated economic betrayal, writes political scientist Marie Gottschalk.