Jonathan Ruhe is the Fellow for American Strategy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
How the Iran War Exposes Cracks in America’s Foundation
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As President Donald Trump and his administration weigh a renewed military campaign against Iran, it’s worth taking time to consider how the conflict—regardless of its ultimate outcome—affects us beyond the near term in the Middle East. The war has expanded cracks in the foundation of America’s superpower status and brought our adversaries closer together.
Fortunately, it also highlights how we can address such fundamental problems.
In his final speech, days before dying in the opening strikes of the war, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei described the United States as “an empire heading toward collapse.” After suppressing mass protests and surviving foreign attacks, Khamenei’s successors and Iranian state media declared that America was “no longer the superpower it claimed to be” and had “entered the beginning of its imperial decline.” Accordingly, “The world is moving [on] from the period of U.S. hegemony.”
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Read the full piece in The Dispatch.