Is rampant militarism accelerating US decline rather than reversing it? Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, argues Trump’s war on Iran has exposed the hard limits of American military and diplomatic power, as Washington faces strategic defeat by Tehran it refuses to admit. Prashad breaks down why Gulf states, most recently Oman, are coming to understand why hosting US bases is more liability than protection, given the new Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey — a security pact built entirely apart from US interests, with Egypt reportedly circling to join. He explains why Iraq’s next moves could determine whether the region stabilizes or escalates further. After US strikes on Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestine via Israel, why would any country still trust the United States? And Prashad points to East Asia, where the Pacific is left without a single carrier given the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record 260-day deployment to the Gulf, and where Tokyo and Seoul may be taking notes on the lesson Gulf states just learned. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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