>>497598>Has the US become more powerful in spite of its defeat by Iran?I think a couple things are going on. First, the US (and its "greatest ally") is scrambling to apply as much pressure as possible and expand its power and grip. It's doing this because it, firstly, wants to continue the war with Iran with even less opposition from other countries' leaders than it already has, and, secondly, hopes to destroy China after that if it can manage to do so. It knows that doing these things is not so easy, and it wants as much support, even from the appearance of UN consent, as it can get. The US wants to either dominate the UN even more completely, even on a level of what is
allowed to be said by UN staff, than it already does, or just dismantle it entirely (which is what the "Board of Peace" is for) because it's still somehow not enough of a US dictatorship as they want it to be. It also wants to show that it can still bully countries, because this can be used to intimidate those who are not yet fully bullied by giving a suggestion of greater power than the US necessarily has. This kind of power reflects real leverage, but its expression is also somewhat illusory; most countries don't lobby this hard to fuck with UNGA votes to begin with, and if China wanted to do something like this, they probably could, but they generally don't.
Secondly, I think it's premature to dismiss that the US's power may have increased; for the time being, the US has more-or-less successfully subjugated all of Latin America except for Cuba and Nicaragua. Bolivia is fighting it, but their government, obviously, is now yankee occupied. Canada, once a long-time trading partner of Cuba, has fully caved to US pressure and backed away from doing so, effectively becoming a partner in the criminal economic war against Cuba. These are all conditions which demand steadfast material opposition, and I think that this has to be understood very well by people who are opposed to the crimes of the American state. While it may be true that the US government is behaving erratically and grasping at anything it can grab out of paranoia about the unipolar world dictatorship being overturned, it does this because this can help facilitate its goals - it's not enough to just say "oh, they're scared because the empire is collapsing" and call it a day. The
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