The American unipolar deflation: What the war on Iran really exposes


FOR months, the world has watched what was meant to be a decisive US‑Israeli campaign against Iran. But instead of a quick, surgical victory, we are witnessing something far more instructive: the visible, irreversible deflation of American hegemony — delivered not through a single battlefield defeat, but through a slow‑motion implosion spanning military logistics, internal US political warfare, and the rise of a civilizational state that Washington never even understood.

As EMIR Research has documented since May 2024 (“Come Hell or High Water: Iran Has Topped the League”), Iran has consistently acted as the mature, rational actor in this conflict. But the past six weeks have revealed a deeper truth. Iran is emerging as a global-level regional centre of power while for the US, its karma could not be more poetic.

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