Why Trump’s Iran war should terrify U.S. allies

JVL Introduction

Tony Karon offers us seven thoughts about the new world order as it is emerging in the Middle East.

Here are  some extracts:

• The US is a dying empire raging violently against the dimming of its ability to impose its will on the world.
• Israel’s goal is to shatter and dismember the Iranian nation state, and if that is achieved at the expense of creating expanding circles of chaos radiating outward from Israel, all the better for Israel’s ability to dominate the region.
• This pain of this war will be felt far and wide… it looks rather likely that the reckless Netanyahu-Trump war of choice will plunge the world into a painful economic recession.
• “Iran is seeking to establish a counter-narrative of ‘independent Iranian strength’ versus ‘Arab dependence on a foreign umbrella’… undermining the political and security standing of its Arab rivals in the eyes of the world’s Muslims.”
• what’s not too soon to predict is that there’ll be no reversion to the region’s status quo-ante.

RK

This article was originally published by Rootless Cosmopolitan on Sat 7 Mar 2026. Read the original here.