Ambassador Chas Freeman on Pelle Taylor and Martin Sieff's podcast says Europe is the one continent where American hegemony will survive

"We have demonstrated that we cannot restrain Israel, that we cannot defend our own bases in the region, that we are not willing or able to defend the countries that gave us access to those bases... therefore we're out of business as the guarantor of Persian Gulf security. This is the collapse of the Pax Americana in West Asia to be followed by an indigenously contrived security architecture and the same thing is happening by the way elsewhere everywhere but Europe. Europe is brain dead apparently and unable to bring itself to talk to those evil Russians and has reversed history and imagined that Russia has constantly invaded Europe when in fact it was the French and Germans who invaded Russia and the Russians who pursued them home, illustrating the point that if you go abroad in search of devils to destroy, they may very well follow you out."

"Iran's terms for peace will include the removal of all American military forces from the region."

"The Iran war has become an economic war of attrition, and the United States is losing it... Storage is exhausted, diesel is at $6.50 in America, and the inflationary second wave [has hit]."

Podcast is here.