Military power alone cannot sustain global dominance, and attempts to assert it in the face of structural decline may hasten the very outcome they seek to prevent.
Even as Washington may call and claim victory, notional or real, the global pain of the brash and so-called bold and illegal strikes will be real for years to come.
The erratic tariff policy pursued by the U.S. president and his administration has so far mainly served to strengthen ties between countries in the Global South and Beijing, and, where relevant, Moscow.