The strategically competent are few — Brain Berletic is one such

© 2026 Peter Free

 

18 July 2026

 

 

Brian Berletic, Paul Craig Roberts and I . . .

 

. . .  see the United States' geopolitical behavior identically.

 

In our view, analysts who repeatedly state that Russia and Iran have won the wars — which the US started against them — are missing the strategic point.

 

Absent genuinely coordinated opposition, the US can keep its constant blood-sucking up, until each of the attacked nations are drained into strategic insignificance.

 

See, for example:

 

 

The New Atlas, US Bombs Iranian Bridges, Roads - Disruptions to West Asian Energy Exports Resume, YouTube (17 July 2026)

 

 

This is why

 

We criticize Russian, Chinese and Iranian leaderships as being complacently blind to reality.

 

 

The only way to fend off . . .

 

. . . the United States — is to attack its overextended military and logistical capacity in an aggressive and coordinated way across the full reach of those multi-polar powers' combined capabilities.

 

 

Working against strategic integration . . .

 

. . . is Russian and Chinese leaderships' shared pusillanimity.

 

As well as their failures to craft international narratives that compete with the United States' self-serving (always lying) propaganda.

 

This supposed 'Axis of Resistance' abysmally fails at the military and public relations prongs of the global conflict.

 

 

The moral? — If you want to witness suicidal stupidity . . .

 

. . . the Axis of Resistance's domino-inviting ineptness is a glaring example of such.

 

Though I despise American neocons, I credit them with reliably spotting what we can (colloquially) call 'dumbass chickenshitness'.