Good overview of the collapse of military power projection in MENA as a result of Chumps failed wars on Iran.  What this means is that the FSoA has a vastly reduced ability to control the politics in this area of the world, and in conjuction with that the economics on the energy trade.

Military intervention over the last 60 years since Vietnam has shown time and again that it fails against any but the smallest and weakest of adversaries.  Even in the few cases it was marginally succesful, the cost and the time involved makes the overall benefit questionable.  With the advent of cheap drones and missiles available even to smaller countries andnon-state actors, the situation has only become more pronounced over time.

Unfortunately, War Hawks and Profiteers refuse to learn this lesson, so the strategy keeps being tried over and over again.  Underlying this is the fact that Capitalism doesn't work without an enforcement arm that allows one side to profit at the expense of another.  They won't sell you their resources at the price you wanna pay?  Bomb them until they have an attitude adjustment. lol.

The best alternative at this point is to just pull back and focus on more fairly distributing our own resources and solving our own social and economic problems and stop trying to steal from everybody else.  Wishful thinking, of course.

RE