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  The US, under Trump and Isreal,  are no longer pretending. No longer  camoflaging their deep desire to rule and control the world. Like Britian did and Germany wanted or like Romans wanted.   After dividing and, thereby,  weakening the then  USSR , the US was the lone superpower , a status it wasted , according to right wingers like Trump.  Now China is soon replacing USSR and can oppose the US in future!  So an urgency!! The US , its peoole,  its administrators,  media etc  beleives the US is has the  right  to the worlds wealth . They think they are powerful. They  regard everyone else capable of opposing them( China Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea,  Cuba, Sweden, Turkey and so on) as inferior people, terrorists,  not democratic etc. They think its their right to stop these nations from exerting. Isreal, backed by the wealthy  Jews in the  US,  has been a B team of the US,  used ...

Acknowledgement: extracts from research and published articles  History has a habit of returning in unexpected forms. Today’s confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran in the Persian Gulf evokes a parallel with one of history's most famous military disasters the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE . At that moment, the mighty Roman Empire marched east convinced that Persia would collapse under the weight of Roman power. Instead, Rome encountered a civilization that understood how to defeat stronger enemies through strategy, patience, and geography. Two thousand years later, the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz suggests that the ancient Persian lesson may still be relevant. It seems that  the European plus the US plus zionists have not learnt from history.  The Roman disaster began with the ambitions of Marcus Licinius Crassus , one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Rome. Before him   Julius Caesar and Pompey acheived glory . While Caesar...

When dictators or charismatic one man rulers ( Example Gadaffi, Saddam, Xi , Putin, Mao, Stalin, Erdogan, Netanyahu,  MBD, Modi, Trump, Paki army rulers,  various gulf rulers, African rulers, Khomeni and Khamenei etc) are overthrown or die in office, after decades of rule,  the countries they rule find it tough to transit.  Deviating a little, back home, one man or women  party in india ( AIDMK, Shiv Sena, NCP, DMK, Congress under Gandhis) are also like that.  Where dictators ruled , chaos may prevail for years after they are no longer there.Or new ones emerge.  Democracies,  though, manage somehow. Kings and monarch or religion dominated political rules,   manage to have a succession plan and goes through with it,  albeit occasional killings happen before that.  The only ones that go on with some stability are mature democracies like UK. West Europe, even immature democratic India, Canada, Australia, NZ and even the US( Trump ...