Tag: AmericanPower
Trump Turns Dependence on America Into Leverage
Donald Trump's foreign policy increasingly rests on a simple proposition: identify what another government cannot easily obtain without the United States, offer access to it and keep delivery conditional.The mechanism is conditional access, not simply hard power. Export licences, technology transfer, sanctions relief, market access and military supply become instruments…
Trump Blinks as Iran Tests American Power
An EA-18G Growler launches from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026. Source U.S. Central Command / U.S. Navy, public domain.The US President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a massive new attack, assembled the option, then called it off, in a…
