its been a very long time since the empire's claims of exceptionalism were fact based. now we're faced with acting as if we are but reality keeps inserting its face;

In a recent interview with Mike Adams, an expert on Russian military and naval issues put forward his opinion that the United States and its highly supported Israel may have grossly overestimated their military "strength" as opposed to the Iran-backed Hamas.

For Andrei Martyanov, a graduate of the National Academy in Baku who served as an officer on the ships in a staff position of the Soviet Coast Guard through 1990, the United States, in its current state, cannot do strategy. "They love to use all those big words. But in reality, they're utterly incompetent and illiterate," he told Brighteon's Mike Adams. "And when you look, especially in terms of how they miscalculated, it's a combination of self-proclaimed experts, but most of them have zero background in real practical geopolitics."

Martyanov pointed out how modern military education could not just be obtained in any Ivy League school. "I mean, it's just that if you have a degree in political science, especially from an American university, you will be primarily in the darkness and this delusion of American exceptionalism," he said, adding that NATO, which is basically the U.S., fails in not only strategic but also operational planning "because they have no skills and knowledge in terms of multi-domain war. They believe in Hollywood," he cited Tom Cruise's movie "Top Gun" and said that it is the scariest part as American militaries, so-called professionals and generals, "they have no clue what they're doing," he said.

Adams agreed, adding that the American government appears to be living in 1992. He cited the recent speech by President Joe Biden, where he just recycled all the tropes of the Gulf War, that America is the indispensable nation that whatever America wants to do with its military might, must be dominant in the world, that all of America's enemies are incompetent and have no training, and no arms whatsoever, he said. "Here we are 30 years later, and everything has flipped. And I want you to know that those of us who were born as Americans, many of us realize that what you are saying about American leadership is correct. They are illiterate, and I know you don't use that term in a flippant, insulting kind of way. It's a description. They don't know history. They certainly don't know Eastern Europe, or Russia, or even the history of the Soviet Union, nor the history of America," Adams further said and added that they still think they're stuck in 1992. He then proceeded to ask the military expert, "What will be the result of this big miscalculation on the part of the West and the U.S. State Department in particular?".........more.......