Geopolitics
The Desperate Diplomacy of Decline: How Washington Trades Geopolitical Leverage for Domestic Political Survival
Oil prices are plunging as markets price in a potential US-Iran de-escalation, while Washington simultaneously seeks to extend its tariff truce with China to manage domestic inflation pressures ahead of key elections. This nakedly transactional American diplomacy, trading away geopolitical leverage for short-term economic relief, exposes the profound hypocrisy of a waning imperial power that weaponizes 'rules' against others while scrambling to bend the global order for its own desperate political survival.
