In the days of the Empire, the Americans like Hilarious Clinton, bragged we are the only Empire in the world. We can do anything we want, kick anyone we want, kill anyone we want. Do as we told you. Empty head Trump still thinks so and is telling the Iranians, do as I tell you or I will kill you or wipe your Civilisation from the earth. No one dares to say this is against International Law or Principles. Everyone lame lame just keep quiet with such threats from the Chief Terrorist.
The tools of American power projection, nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, bombers, submarines, warships and military bases everywhere were staring in the faces of every country. Yes, if any country would dare to defy the Americans, these powers would be used against them. A carrier task force is enough to threaten and flatten any country in the world. Every country understands that, just obey or else.
The Americans also have a lot of allies and crony states, all beholden and controlled by the Americans under treaties, alliance agreements or strategic relationship, meaning these countries will be roped in to fight American wars whether they like it or not. All the treaties, agreements, strategic relationships, to the innocent smaller states were meant to protect them from being attacked. The reality is that no one is threatening or attacking these smaller states except the evil American Empire. The reality is that the Americans are the ones that are starting wars everywhere, everyday, and the smaller states would be coerced to become cannon fodder or American accomplices.
American power also extends to the banking and financial systems, trading systems, the hegemony of the American dollars and the American market. The Americans abused these instruments to bully and coerce countries to do its bidding, to do what they are told, not to do what they Americans forbid them to do. The control of the evil American Empire was complete and absolute.
Sadly but fortunately, all the American instruments of power have been castrated, neutered and no longer effective, or alternatives are now available to bypass the American hegemony. The evil American Empire has lost all its hands and legs and tools of oppression, even its allies and crony states. Caveat, a few diehard will still cling tightly to the American coat tail, kissing the American ass, even sending their war machine and boys and girls to fight and die for the Americans, against the interests of their people and countries.
The once unchallenged American supremacy in weapons and war machine is passe. The Operation to kill Iranians have exposed the ineffectiveness and fake superiority of American weapons to the world. The once most threatening and deadly war machine, the aircraft carrier group, is completely useless and taken out of action by the Iranian drones and hypersonic missiles. Once they are within range, they will be sunk, with 5,000 men and all the weapons in them. Too costly a target for the Americans to lose.
Military bases strategically deployed and located near potential enemies are no longer assets but vulnerable liabilities. Iran, with its drones and missiles have literally wiped out all American bases in the Middle East, turning them into junkyards. Minus the aircraft carrier group and military bases, the Americans can only use Tomahawk missiles and long range bombers to hit distant enemies. But their effectiveness are also diminishing with the bombers easy targets to be taken down.
On the economic and financial front, all the sanctions, threats, bans, tariffs, are losing their effectiveness. The dollar is going to be turned into banana currency soon and will be dumped or burnt like waste papers.
And all the friends and allies and crony states are disappearing or distancing themselves from the never ending wars of aggression and destruction of the Americans. No one wants to be seen as accomplices in war crimes and crimes against humanity. The lawlessness and insanity of the evil American Empire, although now more like a limp dick, is standing out like a sore throat that no amount of silly propaganda and pooh pooh away. Only believeable to the unthinking and dead brain hillbillies, rednecks and Anglophiles.
The evil American Empire is gone, forever. Only the skeleton remains. Oops, plus a limpy dick to show, with a man child playing with it, thinking it can still stand.