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But even with rising international outrage over these war crimes, the shelling of the hospital was an escalation too far. It’s derailed even the feeble US attempts to get in front of this crisis. Israel, being stymied in its desire to clear Gaza by its obvious inability to do so (lack of experience, lack of equipment, reluctance to take the baked-in high casualties) instead appears to have settled on Plan B of shelling and starving it until everyone there dies.

The irony of this situation is that had the Israeli response been a lot more measured, the global public opinion may have been a lot more sympathetic. Israel literally hurt its own cause.

I have to stop here. Those of you who watch Alexander Mercouris or Alex Christoforu regularly will have seen clips of how Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is received at various conferences…as in enthusiastically. And as both Putin and Lavrov have taken to saying, no one has the rules for this supposed rules-based order, calling out the US pretense that it means anything more than the US preserving its hegemony.

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In other words, the loss of US authority has become so visible that even loyal organs like the Financial Times are forced to take notice. How long before the rest of the mainstream media follows suit? Or is Biden so deluded that he too will escalate in the hope that playing war president will force a show of loyalty?

The rest of the Western mainstream media is hellbent on trying to keep this delusional idea of US omnipotence going for as long as it can.

The obvious cracks are appearing. The US lost Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and increasingly, Ukraine. Now they might lose the whole Islamic world and a large amount of the global South.