The US elite is in a state of panic, outright panic, as they realise that the Iran war is ending US hegemony.

The US has been a global superpower for over eight decades and has had unchallenged global hegemony for 35 years.

Now, its power was already in chaotic decline because of other military strategic disasters,

for example, like Iraq, like Afghanistan, like Libya, and because of a crisis-stricken economic

model as the 2008 financial crash from which we never recovered has underlined.

Donald Trump himself is a symptom of US decline,

but he is also an accelerant of US decline as the Iran catastrophe underlines. As we'll see,

the gravity of the situation is sinking in amongst US elites, the end of US supremacy,

although that itself comes with an important warning, which will discuss.

All of this to be clays down to Iran, having control of the strait of Hummus,

one of the world economy's main arteries, and its power to destroy the energy infrastructure

and water desalination plants of the Gulf states, and thus plunged the world into a global

depression. It's already

causing economic mayhem in the United States. That's why Trump has retreated from his threat

to attack Iranian energy infrastructure, its power stations, and is now claiming to be negotiating

with Iran, which Iran says is a lie. Indeed, the Iranian regime has become more hard line because of the war.

For example, Israel killed Ali Larijani, the country's national security adviser last week.

He was seen as relatively pragmatic and moderate.

He's now just being replaced by a general described as being uber hawkish.

Wow, impressive.

Now, let's talk about this panic.

Let's start with Donald Trump's former defence secretary, General Jim Mattis.

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