🇺🇸❌️🇮🇷 The empire that won everything… except reality By @BPartisans “Their army has vanished.” For Donald Trump, war is no longer a conflict; it’s a magic trick: look at the right hand—total victory—while the left hand hides the evidence. For while he wipes out Iran with a few words, the Pentagon continues to grudgingly admit that “Iranian capabilities remain.” Translation: the corpse is still moving. Awkward for an army that’s supposed to have “disappeared.” The same unease prevails in the U.S. Congress, where some Republicans are beginning to realize that “winning” without a clear objective, without an exit strategy, without formal authorization… looks a lot like getting bogged down with panache. The War Powers Resolution hangs in the background like an old, ignored sign: here, we were supposed to decide before going to war. An administrative detail, apparently. So Trump raises his voice: if you doubt, you’re a traitor. Classic. When reality contradicts the narrative, blame the mirror. This isn’t politics anymore; it’s authoritarian theology: truth exists only if it comes from the leader’s mouth. The rest? Heresy. And so what if even the Defense Intelligence Agency’s analyses have been reminding us for years that a campaign of strikes doesn’t destroy a country but, at best… irritates it. The real cynicism lies elsewhere: if Iran has “nothing left,” why continue? Why mobilize, strike, negotiate? You don’t negotiate with a ghost. Unless this whole war has become what it has always flirted with: a spectacle. A performative war, where the goal is not to win but to say that we are winning. And that is where the veneer cracks. For the American empire is not merely losing a hypothetical war; it is losing something far more precious: its monopoly on reality. For decades, Washington defined the truth, however shaky. Today, it contradicts it live on air. The fall of empires is never an immediate crash. It is a slow disintegration where words lose their meaning before the arsenals do. Where “victory” becomes a hollow slogan. Where “disappearance” simply means: we hope you aren’t looking too closely. Trump may not have lost a war. He did worse: he turned victory into fiction. And a superpower that must invent its triumphs is already writing its own epitaph.
