Do you think this show off is helpful

When you are top hegemon you can do this:

https://www.ft.com/content/67916256-637a-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26895?mhq5j=e1

The question is that a top hegemon can be powerfully healing and collegial. Is the above, predisposing towards such an outcome?

Or does it get the the other side's goat up.

There is one thing we tend to forget.

After US$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$2 trillion spent on the war against Weapons of Mass Destruction, the top hegemon could not win and conquer Iraq.

And this is ultimate corroboration of a US military axiom:

No land war in Asia!

But US President keep insisting that the US can win land wars in Asia.

The closest it ever got to was in the Korean war - an armistice.

If you include the war against Mullah Mohamed by Bush, you are being polemically silly. There was no war, just bombing, bombing and more bombing. So you went in. And once the American marines were on the ground, the Taliban took them on . And the Taliban is still taking on the 10,000 or so residual US troops in Afghanistan.

These troops are there to train the Afghan army and police force.

And the evidence is that their training is failing in potency and quality.

The whole war opera was a total costly failure and the US is still risking its ground troops in Afghanistan today.

Now and then, Rupert Murdoch has no choice but to report the death of one or two American soldiers in Afghanistan today - 2017.