The American geostrategic theater, which reached its apogee with the eclipse of post-Soviet Russia, is now coming up against recalcitrant players.

The stakes are high. If global players accept the roles assigned to them in the new American scenario, the Western oligarchy under American leadership will preside over world affairs for decades to come. But if the players refuse to conform to this scenario, then they will hinder the emergence of the world Washington dreams of. Clearly, this second option has been chosen, which explains the crises that are tearing several regions of the world apart.

Washington’s latest scenario

To force its geopolitical adversaries to don tailored suits, the United States uses a tried-and-tested method: intimidation. This sometimes takes the form of politico-military interference and coercive unilateral measures, sometimes psychological warfare.

The Atlanticist assault on the alternative order to American hegemony forms the backbone of the story. As in all tragic works, a charge of fatalism announces the coming conflagration from the outset.

The scenario devised by Washington unfolds on both a horizontal and vertical level. Horizontal, because the tensions, crises and confrontations involving Washington and its geopolitical adversaries coexist on the international stage (G7 vs BRICS, NATO vs Russia, Israel vs Iran, USA vs China). Vertical, as the United States prioritizes its assault on anti-hegemonic forces by practicing a Russian doll strategy: nested figurines are dismembered one by one, in the hope of progressively weakening the final target, China.

In this vertical strategy of dismemberment, Russia, along with Germany and the rest of the EU, was the first act. In West Asia, Iran and its Axis of Resistance allies are, as we are witnessing today, the second act. What’s more, as evidenced by the growing US military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, preparations are well underway to set the third act in motion, and flank a China that is supposed to have been weakened upstream by the prior dismemberment of its strategic partners.

The second act of the scenario: dismembering the Axis of Resistance

The second act is being played out right before our eyes, in West Asia. Washington has conceived this act as a great bullfighting spectacle, in which the Axis of Resistance represents the bull to be slaughtered, and Iran, the........

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