Why US?
When the US withdrew from Afghanistan, I wrote this:
The bottom line to the hypocrisy is this: if you fight with the Americans, the world is fair and just. We, the citizens of the world have sold our souls to the dollar dreams made in America, having lost the imagination that the world can be n-iterations different from the one that is now. In our imagined realities, Afghanistan is the window in a world of nightmares but the bombs of America are packages of peace.
Five years later, replace Afghanistan with Iran and you’ve got the same playbook. This time with the Israelis in cahoots with Americans fighting for the freedom of the Iranians. The dazzling arsenal of the US and Israel have been put to use, eliminating much of the Iranian core leadership and coming close to removing its nuclear capabilities, a status that has been unchanged since years, because who knows if the Americans need a fresh excuse to launch another attack in the future. As this uncontrolled aggression (and don't make the same mistake of equating it with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there Russia bad, here America good) has ripple effects across the world there's very few forces that can coerce the American/Israeli nexus back to peace and that largely is in the hands of the American and Israeli people, who through brainwashing, lack of power and media manipulation find themselves in a spot of powerlessness, enabling their elite to further profit from war.
The American hypocrisy is further down in our throats, the yesteryear yearnings for freedom and democracy have been replaced by the naked “my might is right” MAGA fantasies which the the world governments have no other choice than lap it up. The leaders of the Western governments also find themselves in a tough spot to chide Israel and to keep it in its place (looking at you Germany) as the past two decades of fostering Islamophobia comes to bite the governments in their face. Their muted reactions are thereby justified as the people getting killed are faceless Muslims and not white or white adjacent Christians and Jews.
Where we go from here is a matter of open speculation, but one thing is clear. The moral authority that the US lapped itself as in a post WW II scenario has come to an end. This is the beginning of the end of the American civilization, what will replace it is anyone's best guess but the next century will see the nation hollowed out like a termite infested house. As that happens, here we are the ordinary citizenry of the world subjected to another market shock, making us poorer as the first trillionaire is almost in the making.