America just had its "Berlin Wall" moment

anyone with a basic understanding of how the middle east works could have seen it coming, Iraq is majority Shia and ruled by the Sunni for centuries, why wouldn't they align with their co-religionists, especially since on the whole, Shia are a minority in the Muslim world

they don't mention the historical aspect
Iran has traditionally been the dominant middle eastern power, even during the height of the Ottoman Empire and before them Rome, they were trying to prevent the Persians from expanding back into their traditional sphere of influence

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What's with all the kikes all of a sudden? It would be awesome if that were the case, but guys, don't be so delusional. We would see much more hype on how dangerous Iraq is and how we have to invade it, or how those ebil XYZ are bombing poor, innocent ISIS officials Al Nusra militants civilians

the reason the US doesn't want to fucking do that is it would piss off all the thousands of veterans who fought in Iraq and would literally signal our failure to the world.

Why do you think we encouraged ISIS to move into Iraq in force?

And the SCO provides the base for the BRIC bank, a force to counter the (((IMF)))

fuck, fellow american goy, I think we are in for some very lean times. If you aren't a prepper, now might be a very good time to start. I think it might get very bad, even if we do win next week..

And nothing of (positive) value was lost.

Good riddance.

And yet thanks to outstanding natural geographic advantages, the USA is permanently primed for a powerful economic recovery, short of Yellowstone or Nuclear War. And with the latter, its just a slightly longer amount of time.

Thank You God, for the Intercoastal Waterways, more natural and potential ports than the rest of the world combined, and the Mississippi Watershed, aka the most massive and most navigable river system on Earth, in addition to all the other navigable systems on the same fucking continent.

Seriously, West of the Mississippi and East of the Rockies is THE most economically productive zone per cost of transport on Earth. We could be knocked back to the 1800s and this would still be the case.

Whats funny is that ISIS almost went too far, and nearly began attacking certain Shiite Holy Sites close to Iran. Had that happened, the Iranians would have thrown the whole clandestinely shipping Assad what we can out the fucking window and would have gone neck deep in with everything they had. Which would have a million reasonably competent conventional forced stomping their way into Iraq, across Iraq, and into Syria.

Tens of thousands of casualties later, the war would have been over.

Washington's problem is they need to stop lying to the American people, and they needs to start telling the actual truth, because we already know it.

We need honesty in Government not lying pussies.

The election is going to be totally fucked I can tell you that.

Sadly its to be expected somewhat. The US has squandered so many opportunities to make serious change in important areas. For me the fact they let russia get back up after knocking itself out is absolutely unforgiveable from a geopolitically strategic point of view.

I think we arent too far away from another bay of pigs tier fiasco which will be the biggest nail in the coffin of the US "empire".

They'll always be the superpower. They can realign their strategies and keep this going on forever.

Nobody is dropping the dollar.

1. Soft-power (we're talking English here, aren't we?)

2. Advantageous strategical position, off-shore balancer

I'm not holding any breath for a future where the US isn't dominant. Neither should you.

The US shouldn't even be an empire. We need to fortify ourselves and return to isolationism.

Enforce the Monroe doctrine to keep the faggots out of our hemisphere, otherwise let the world regress to its goat fucking ways.

user think of the poor brown people who will be hurt by those things. Are you even human?

>Washington does not have control of Iraq, and appears unlikely to

These are not a problem, Washington never intended to control these countries, just destroy them to further a greater Israel, and provide justification for endless conflict

>Washington did not back Russia down in Ukraine and Crimea, and isn’t going to.

Washington prefers another Cold War with Russia, it has all the advantages of a real war without a real wars dangers

The elite need the US to lose prestige, that's why the Vietnam war was fought and lost. You can't have global goverance if Americans and people all over the world still think of the US as a great nation. Also the dollar irritates them, it is a symbol to people of a great nation, freedom etc. They purposely shipped US industry to China and continually exagerate Chinas power in the media in order to degrade the US

The US could have freed North Korea from the communists in the 1950s, but they didn't want to. After capturing the North, they basically just gave it back. Again, they were trying not to alienate or weaken China, and also spread communisim, because of it's internationalist character

>In the Philippines, President Duterte has told Obama to “go to hell” as being “the son of a whore,” which may be taken to indicate latent hostility. He is vigorously seeking rapprochement with China.

Again, does Washington really care? This lowers the prestige of the US and raises that of China, which is their long term aim

This is annoying to Washington, Turkey was supposed to help destroy Syria so they could then move on to take down their main target in the middle east, Iran

>Meanwhile Washington thrashes around impotently as per usual in Syria, and, though the jury remains out on this one, looks to have poor prospects.

Syria was just supposed to be a walkover, a simple prelude to the destruction of Iran. They are very unhappy with the situation of course

Another real problem. They don't want functioning states in the middle east, they need free acess to the oil, endless wars, and a greater Israel

The problem with American foreign policy is that America was never designed or intended to be an Empire, for fucks sake it was founded by anti-Imperialist, Nationalist rebels who we against centralized power structures.

We were designed to be an isolationist shining city on a hill that was just so prosperous and fucking amazing that we'd serve as a guiding beacon to mankind.

Not to mention the modern shadow empire where we don't even hold territory is faggotry of the highest order.

How long is that going to last? The internet is a huge game changer in this thanks to instant machine translation, in the near future discussions on sites like these won't require any of understanding of English to participate in. Also cultures that are dedicated to creating media without any language barriers as a self imposed limitation have seen a major increase in their soft power globally in the last decade.

That's highly dependent on solving the racial problem

Except we dont actually need any of that. Like at all, on a strategic level.

Yeah because those nuclear weapons would just vanish into thin ajr.

You massive fucking retard.

Economically yes, strategically no. We should use our shale independence to secure Middle Eastern oil and hold East Asia by the throat. Whenever anyone there twitches wrong, we squeeze.

There’s no real evidence that this is going to happen.

Iraq and the destabilization of Syria was at the behest entirely of Israel, not for any economic concerns.

Build a monorail too while you're at it. (((Fracking))) is a cost-shifting scam.

….ok everybidy? Look here. What we have here is a pure disinfo shill. His opinion is retarded and unfounded, posted purely to distract and consensus crack. Ignored.

Neo-Achaemenid Empire when?
Tfw you remember kebabs religiously and genetically cucked the Sassanids, and that Persians probably were shit before then.

The "soft power" of US follows from the second point (off-shore balancer). Very easy to rig the game, essentially.

They've contained all the powers that could defy them. Because it's an unending balance of powers far away from them.

And on the matter of soft power… where I live for example people listen to American music, watch Hollywood movies, and biggest dream in life is visiting the US. You'll find that normies have a rather favorable view of the US even with all the shit they pull.