Depleted Arsenals and Fractured Gulf Alliances Reveal the Permanent Structural Decline of Post-WWII American Supremacy

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By weaponising finance, abandoning allies, and waging economic warfare, the West triggered its own eclipse.

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A superpower’s threat to use massive ordnance against fortified underground targets is an admission of strategic failure.

Washington’s sudden pivot to Russian energy exposes the fragile state of American leverage and a fracturing global order.

They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

An imperial military doctrine designed for industrial peer clashes unravels against cheap asymmetric hardware abroad.

The 2026 New Delhi Declaration highlighted the expanded 11-member BRICS bloc's growing global weight, representing...

Russia and China are systematically reducing their reliance on the U.S. financial system by cutting holdings of Treasury bonds and other dollar-denominated instruments. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that Moscow and Beijing are the primary drivers behind the declining share of the dollar in global reserves. While Washington emphasizes current demand from other players, the trend of dedollarization among Eurasia's largest economies creates long-term risks for the sustainability of U.S. national debt and challenges the dollar's status as the primary reserve asset. Shift in Reserve Management Russia has effectively minimized the dollar component of its assets following the freeze of its reserves by Western nations. China, which holds the largest volume of U.S. Treasuries, is methodically reducing its exposure by pivoting toward gold and other currencies.

Treasury yields near a crisis-era mark just as China, India and Russia thicken payment rails Washington no longer owns.