US Push to Topple Iran Serves Global Push for Primacy

The targeting of Iran is just one part of a global-spanning US foreign policy objective. Just as the US has eliminated Iranian allies across the region to isolate Iran itself, the US is attacking, degrading, and eliminating Chinese partners around the globe to isolate China.

References:

BBC – ‘There wasn’t even time for CPR’: Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters (Jan. 11, 2026):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9…

NYT – Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue (Jan. 10, 2026):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us…

Brookings Institution – Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran (PDF, 2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/…

New Yorker – The Redirection (2007):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20…

NYT – The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Dec. 30, 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2…

BBC – How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat (Feb. 2023):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can…

ABC (Australia) – Rise in violence against Chinese nationals in Pakistan threatens China’s ‘Silk Road’ vision (Oct. 2024):
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-2…

Irrawaddy – Myanmar Junta Abandons Chinese Pipeline Amid Resistance Attacks (May 2025):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-ag…

US State Department – Foreign Terrorist Organizations:
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrori…