How America lost its swagger after 100 days of war against Iran

Who would have imagined that just over 100 days could so change the world? The US-Israeli “war of choice” on Iran has fundamentally – perhaps, permanently – shifted the global balances of economic, military and political power, and not in America’s favour.Mix the direct impact of this gratuitous military conflict with the broader effects on global security, efforts to mitigate Climate Change, contain soaring Public Debt and “de-risk” after America’s unilateral efforts to unravel globally agreed trade, and we face nothing less than an upheaval.“Trump’s Iran" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="142746" data-entity-type="event">War in Iran was supposed to project American power. It projected the opposite,” wrote Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer in a newsletter. “American reliability can no longer be assumed, and reducing dependence on the US has gone from luxury to necessity.”