“…Sachs compares the moment to Rome under Nero or Caligula: a once‑dominant empire now in the hands of a leader who cannot be reasoned with, surrounded by courtiers, grifters, and family members posing as strategists. The constitutional system, Sachs says, has collapsed. Congress refuses to intervene. The military warns privately but obeys publicly. And the rest of the world is left to absorb the consequences.
The most chilling part of Sachs’s analysis is not the military danger — though that is immense — but the political vacuum at the center of American power. “There are no grown‑ups around,” he says. “We are out of control.”
The war, Sachs insists, is not about Iran. It is about U.S. hegemony — the belief that Washington can dictate the fate of entire regions, seize control of global energy flows, and bend the world to its will. But the world has changed. Iran is not isolated. Russia and China are not bystanders. And the United States is no longer capable of managing the chaos it unleashes.
The result is a conflict that could end quickly — or spiral into something far worse. Sachs sees only two paths: a collective global intervention to force a ceasefire, or a continued slide into a war that will reshape the century…”