US Superpower Myth Shattered w/ Trita Parsi
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Trita Parsi discusses the strategic defeat of the US in the Middle East and the implications for US foreign policy.
Follow Trita Parsi: https://x.com/tparsi https://tritaparsi.substack.com/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/tparsi/ https://quincyinst.org/author/trita-parsi/ Iran has achieved what almost no country has managed in the post-Cold War era, a strategic defeat of the United States military without being knocked out on the first punch. In a landmark conversation on The Duran, Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou sit down with Trita Parsi to dissect exactly how America's 40-year obsession with finding a "silver bullet" against Iran has brought Washington to its weakest position in the Middle East since 1979. Parsi argues that the naval blockade of Iran sold to Trump as the final pressure tool that would force capitulation was built on dangerously flimsy analysis, and that the window for Trump to negotiate a genuine exit and spin it as a win is rapidly closing. From Iran's nuclear calculus and the prospect of a grand bargain replacing the JCPOA, to the long-term unraveling of the American security umbrella across the Gulf states, this episode maps out the tectonic shift now reshaping the global order. The question is no longer whether US primacy in the Middle East is ending…
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