HALF A YEAR OF THE WAR ON IRAN: 180 days of confirmation of the end of US empire. Half a year of utter failure on every single objective. The US and Israel began the war thinking Iran’s system would implode following the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, expecting the surrender and capitulation displayed by Venezuela. They believed air superiority and dropping tens of thousands of bombs would silence the missile and drone arsenals of the Iranian military. Donald Trump was reportedly surprised when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, something it has threatened to do for decades in case of a US attack. 6 months later, we can see how detached from reality the neocon foreign policy of the second Trump Administration is. Ayatollah Khamenei was replaced by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian military still has the capability to strike the US’ regional assets, and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut. 6 months of threats of annihilation, bombing, economic sanctions, have proven completely fruitless in fulfilling any US objectives. Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on the United States. US power has been embarrassed and exposed to be in deep decline. Its $1 trillion+ military was defeated by a regional power with a home-grown defence industrial-base. The world has suffered the consequences of Washington’s war, and not since the end of the so-called Cold War have so many people across the world viewed the US as a desperate and dangerous rogue state that will rip up all the ‘rules’ of the ‘rules-based order’ to maintain its empire. Billions are facing higher prices, economic crises, and economic disaster after Trump and Netanyahu’s attack led to Iran shutting the Strait of Hormuz…and now Trump’s legacy has a real possibility of being a global economic depression. At home, Trump betrayed his own base after promising ‘no more wars’, and instead launched a war that Tel Aviv dreamed about. The unpopularity of this war and the fact that it is so nakedly a war for Israel’s interests has caused the largest backlash against the Israel lobby and its grip on US foreign policy. More and more Americans are learning about Israel’s history of genocide and barbarism, and are increasingly sick and tired of their tax dollars being used to support it, and the fact that their politicians seem utterly beholden to the Israeli lobby. After 6 months, US imperial power is cracking violently, the world sits on the precipice of economic disaster thanks to the actions of fanatical pro-Israel neocons in Washington, and billions around the world increasingly understand that the era of unipolarity must decisively end for the good of humanity.