Afrasianet - Monawer mohammad - The question is no longer whether the United States will start a new war, but how many more countries will have to be destroyed before the world recognizes that the danger is not in the rising powers, but in an empire that refuses to recognize that its time is over?
The U.S.-China conflict is no longer just a rivalry between two superpowers, nor a dispute over trade or technology, but a stark manifestation of the crisis of the American empire at its moment of decline. The United States, which has governed the international order by force since the end of the Cold War, is now faced with a reality that it refuses to recognize: the world can no longer be governed from a single center.
The frantic conflict with China is not an isolated event, but rather an extension of a long American trajectory that has been tried in Iraq, then in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Iran, and is now being reproduced on a more dangerous scale with Beijing.
Iraq: War as a Foundational Lie
In 2003, the United States launched a war on Iraq under the pretext of "weapons of mass destruction." Certainly that war was not an intelligence mistake, but a conscious political decision. The state was destroyed, society disintegrated, the region exploded, and when the lie fell, of course Washington was not held accountable.
Iraq was the first example: when America has absolute superiority, it uses war without hesitation.
Ukraine: Proxy attrition
In Ukraine, the form has changed, not the substance. The United States did not enter the war directly, but it designed and managed it: NATO expansion despite warnings, continuous armament, and pushing a country into a confrontation that it does not have the tools to resolve.
The result is a long war in which Ukraine is being depleted, Europe is exhausted, and is being run by Washington as a geopolitical investment to postpone the decline of hegemony.
Venezuela: From Blockade to Weapons and Kidnapping
In Venezuela, Washington has exposed its full face. When sanctions failed, and the "alternative president" project failed, it resorted to the dirty military option.
The armed landing on Venezuela's coast and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro were not isolated incidents, but an expression of a logic that sees sovereignty as a crime.
Mercenaries, kidnappings, assassinations... Legitimate tools in the dictionary of an empire that refuses to recognize the right of peoples to self-determination.
Iran: The Permanent Punishment for Independence
Iran, on the other hand, is the most visible and enduring case in America's record of hostility to political independence. Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran has been placed under open punishment:
- Long-term economic blockade
- proxy war
- scientific assassinations
- Ongoing military threats
- Attempts at international isolation
Nevertheless, it has not been broken. Rather, it has become an effective regional power and a key pillar in the deterrence equation.
The U.S. problem with Iran is not the "nuclear" one, but the model: a country that rejects tutelage, embraces its own sovereign decision, and supports resistance forces outside the U.S. framework. For this reason, Iran has become a constant laboratory for all the tools of pressure, from sanctions to military strikes.
Taiwan: Bringing all the models together in one crisis
In Taiwan, all of these models meet:
- From Iraq: Provocation wrapped in a false moral rhetoric
- From Ukraine: arming and pushing for a direct line of contact
- From Venezuela and Iran: blockade, economic strangulation, political pressure
But the fundamental difference is that China is not a country that can be besieged or drained without reply. Any explosion here will not remain regional, nor will it be managed by proxy, but could open the door to the most dangerous international confrontation since World War II.
Palestine and the Axis of Resistance: The Empire's Real Nightmare
This is where the picture is complete. What unites Palestine, Iran, and the Axis of Resistance with China and Venezuela is not ideology or geography, but a practical rejection of the logic of hegemony.
In Palestine, the U.S. supported a settler occupation, covered up the genocide, armed the killer, and then demanded that the victim remain silent.
On the other hand, the Axis of Resistance, with the direct or indirect support of Iran, presented the most serious break in the power equation:
the possibility of deterring the American project from outside its institutions, without owning an empire.
From Lebanon to Gaza, from Iraq to Yemen, the premise that Washington can always impose results has collapsed.
What Washington really fears?
The United States fears not only China, but the contagion of independence:
- Palestine fears when it turns from a humanitarian issue to a deterrence equation
- Fears Iran as a resilient sovereign model
- Fears Venezuela because it hasn't broken
- China is afraid because it is breaking the monopoly
- It fears a world that moves from obedience to balance
Therefore, it always acts in the same way: either submit... Or chaos.
The question is no longer whether the United States will start a new war, but how many more countries will have to be destroyed before the world recognizes that the danger is not in the rising powers, but in an empire that refuses to recognize that its time is over?
From Baghdad to Kyiv, from Caracas to Tehran, from Palestine to Taiwan...
The pattern is one, the actor is one, and the result is one:
A world that is pushed to the edge because one power is quietly afraid of falling. In moments of decline, empires don't think about the consequences... Rather, with whom she will drag him into the abyss.
