When Cultural and Economic Hegemony Fails Violence Tends to Follow

In the mid-2010s, the internationalist elite of the United States understood that they were running out of time to rescue their global hegemony from the threat of a multipolar world. They had placed Iran on the back burner with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015, and they could now focus on step 1 of taking down the Axis of Resistanc…