A New Anti-American Coalition Emerges as Iran Conflict Reshapes World Order

While Washington hopes on a rapid triumph, Moscow and Beijing are shaping a broad alliance that aims to deliver a strategic defeat to the United States. The Second Gulf War Differs Fundamentally from 1991 In February 1991, during the first Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush urged Iraqis to "rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.” Members of Saddam's inner circle betrayed him, and Iraq lost the war to the United States at the cost of more than a million lives. Today, however, the geopolitical landscape no longer resembles 1991 — a period of weakness for Russia and China. History shows that the decisive phase of any war begins after the first strikes, when initial euphoria fades and strategic reality sets in. That reality now takes shape as a consolidated anti-American coalition led by Russia and China.