SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Washington spent decades selling the image of a military that could dominate every theater at once. Reality is less cinematic.

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Iran is not Russia.

Iran is certainly not China.

And this is what one prolonged war is already doing to the U.S. Navy:
carriers stretched to record deployments, sailors reaching breaking point, ships pulled from Asia, maintenance strain, and now an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer sitting powerless for four days in the South China Sea.

Washington spent decades selling the image of a military that could dominate every theater at once.

Reality is less cinematic.

An empire can have bases everywhere and still discover that it cannot be everywhere at once.

And this is against Iran.

Imagine trying to sustain a major war against a peer industrial power across the Pacific while simultaneously maintaining Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Japan and the rest of the global empire.

That is the part the war-game graphics never show: ships need repairs. sailors need sleep. carriers cannot teleport. logistics do not obey propaganda.

America’s problem is no longer simply whether it has the strongest military.
It is whether that military can survive the ambitions Washington keeps assigning to it.

The Pentagon planned for global dominance.
It forgot that ships break, sailors collapse, and oceans are fucking big.

Apparently “global force projection” works beautifully until the toilets, generators and sailors all stop cooperating.