A superpower’s final act?


Attacked: Huge plume of smoke rises up from an oil facility facility after it appeared to have been hit by an Israeli strike on June 14 in southern Tehran. -- AP

GREAT powers rise and fall as assuredly as the laws of physics. Gravity is universal for those that have outlived their purpose.

Lesser powers with pretensions to greatness, or just great pretensions, are subject to the same universal constraints. Karmic forces are immutable and indiscriminate, regardless of claims to historical exceptionalism.

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