▲ 269 ▼ Iran to close Strait of Hormuz, strike twice as many targets in response to any US attack (www.presstv.ir) submitted 3 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 52 points 3 months ago (2 children) Experiencing the death throes of a dying global hegemony permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child) Well, getting into a war which reveals its hard power as being much less than the image most had of it before and which pisses of its allies, all of this eating away its soft power, it is a pretty traditional thing in the collapse stage of empires. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* ... it is a pretty traditional thing in the collapse stage of empires. it really goes to show that capitalism hasn’t broken the cycle since it shares the same fatal patterns as the empires that collapsed before it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child) Well, getting into a war which reveals its hard power as being much less than the image most had of it before and which pisses of its allies, all of this eating away its soft power, it is a pretty traditional thing in the collapse stage of empires. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* ... it is a pretty traditional thing in the collapse stage of empires. it really goes to show that capitalism hasn’t broken the cycle since it shares the same fatal patterns as the empires that collapsed before it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* ... it is a pretty traditional thing in the collapse stage of empires. it really goes to show that capitalism hasn’t broken the cycle since it shares the same fatal patterns as the empires that collapsed before it. permalink fedilink source parent