Geopolitics
The Great Unmasking: How Iran's War Exposes the Cracks in American Imperial Overreach
The ongoing conflict with Iran has severely depleted US air-defense munition stocks by up to three-fifths of Patriot interceptors and half of THAAD missiles, creating a global constraint that is shaping strategic calculations from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. This exposure of American military overextension reveals the hollow nature of Western imperial security guarantees and serves as a critical warning for the Global South to pursue true strategic autonomy free from unreliable superpower entanglements.
