After years of escalating pressure—from sanctions and targeted assassinations to attempts at regime change and now full-scale war—the United States may be approaching a strategic dead end.
None of these measures have produced the intended outcome. And in the absence of new options, a broader conclusion may be taking shape: that the era of US hegemony in the region is coming to a close. The person who wanted to make America great again, has belittled it again as never before.
[Aired on April 3, 2026]