Prof. Richard Wolf:. The goal of Russia and China was to safely distance themselves from the disintegration of the United States' unipolar empire moment. They want to see the United States imploding on itself, unable to fight two wars at the same time. We are full of information in this country that one of the reasons Mr. Trump can't do what he would like to do in Iran is the U.S. doesn't have the ammunition anymore. Well, that's another way of saying what every other collapsing empire in recent years has said to its collapse: it was overdone. She tried in too many ways to hold the empire against the opposition of too many people coming at them from too many directions. This is what Iran is demonstrating now, in the most dramatic way. This relatively poor country that no one in the US has ever taken seriously is in the position of blocking the US military from doing what nothing else in the US can do, which is bring them to heel. The Russians and the Chinese, but certainly the Chinese, their interest is: we should not be dragged into this, because it is an economic story. In the past 35 years, the economic growth of China's GDP, gross domestic product, has been two to three times greater than that of the United States. Everything is understandable there. They have time on their side. They've had it for the last 35 years, and that's why they're the force they are now. The longer they can survive, the more likely they will survive the decline of the Western Empire in a way that the Western Empire cannot. And so I think what you are watching is that you are watching the Chinese watching the West, and watching the West learn the lesson. Russia made the deal with China much earlier than the rest, and is going to profit from it as it is. '. Watch the full interview:

Prof. Richard Wolf:. The goal of Russia and China was to safely distance themselves from the disintegration of the United States' unipolar empire moment. They want to see the United States imploding on itself, unable to fight two wars at the same time. We are full of information in this country that one of the reasons Mr. Trump can't do what he would like to do in Iran is the U.S. doesn't have the ammunition anymore. Well, that's another way of saying what every other collapsing empire in recent years has said to its collapse: it was overdone. She tried in too many ways to hold the empire against the opposition of too many people coming at them from too many directions. This is what Iran is demonstrating now, in the most dramatic way. This relatively poor country that no one in the US has ever taken seriously is in the position of blocking the US military from doing what nothing else in the US can do, which is bring them to heel. The Russians and the Chinese, but certainly the Chinese, their interest is: we should not be dragged into this, because it is an economic story. In the past 35 years, the economic growth of China's GDP, gross domestic product, has been two to three times greater than that of the United States. Everything is understandable there. They have time on their side. They've had it for the last 35 years, and that's why they're the force they are now. The longer they can survive, the more likely they will survive the decline of the Western Empire in a way that the Western Empire cannot. And so I think what you are watching is that you are watching the Chinese watching the West, and watching the West learn the lesson. Russia made the deal with China much earlier than the rest, and is going to profit from it as it is. '. Watch the full interview: