{"id":80905,"date":"2026-09-18T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80905"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:23:14","slug":"todays-david-vs-goliath-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80905","title":{"rendered":"<h1>TODAY\u2019S DAVID VS. GOLIATH TALE<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80907\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-18-at-3.21.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-18-at-3.21.02-PM.png 584w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-18-at-3.21.02-PM-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\"><strong>US MIDDLE EAST FOOTHOLD<br \/>\nSLIPS AS AXIS OF RESISTANCE SHIFTS BALANCE OF POWER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>By Joachim Hagopian<\/p>\n<p>As a paper tiger has-been, the Zionist US Empire of Chaos and its \u201chigher paygrade\u201d owner, Zionist Israel, are both now decisively getting their asses kicked militarily, politically and economically like never before in their history. 21<sup>st<\/sup> century asymmetrical warfare strategically deployed by the only true valiant fighters willing to put their lives on the crossed genocidal redline, opposing the mass murdering Israel-US perpetrators busily exterminating the Palestinians is the Iran led emboldened Axis of Resistance. Fighting and dying for this worthy moral cause to stop the bloody genocide at all cost are Iran\u2019s IRGC, Yemen\u2019s Ansar Allah, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah and Iraqi militia, together are crushing the true terrorist state monsters of the world \u2013 the United States and the Jewish State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/Detail\/2026\/06\/19\/770723\/america-paper-tiger-sunset-how-us-traded-values-vanity-suffered-staggering-fall\">Iran\u2019s <em>Press TV\u2019<\/em>s article<\/a> titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s paper tiger sunset: How US traded values for vanity and suffered staggering fall,\u201d observes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Many intellectuals and ordinary Americans express concern about the country\u2019s deteriorating status as a leading global power. On the other hand, segments of the political elite, senior military officials, and the ruling establishment continue to operate under the belief that the United States remains an unchallenged superpower. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is simply the Anglo-American-Zio Empire and its puppet leader Trump\u2019s face-saving delusion. Yet by diabolical, intended design, the true bloodline rulers of this rapidly declining empire have deliberately set the stage for the devastating demise of not just the US, but entire <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/us-western-civilizational-collapse-is-no-miscalculation-but-purely-by-deliberate-demonic-design\/\">Western civilization<\/a>. In parallel process with US-Israel\u2019s rapid self-destruction in the Middle East, order-following puppets in Europe are suicidally plunging their continent into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/642911-western-europe-civilizational-suicide\/\">total destruction<\/a> as well, willfully provoking World War III against falsely demonized, far stronger enemy Russia. All of this sheer insanity is unfolding because it is the elites\u2019 long calculated agenda to grossly <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/we-either-fight-against-human-genocide-or-we-face-extinction\/\">depopulate<\/a> the earth in order to far more easily consolidate centralized dystopian control and power over far fewer, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.criticalunity.org\/news\/nwo\/population\/293-depopulation-of-a-planet\">useless eating\u201d humans<\/a> amidst their AI driven robotics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318571\">replacement plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Axis of Resistance in West Asia representing the underdog David in this latest modern-day version of the David vs. Goliath story, the Islamic Resistance is now altering history, enacting a monumentally sweeping shift in the current balance of global power. In contrast, the two most despised world <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/trump-and-netanyahu-lead-us-and-israel-as-worlds-most-hated-countries-2\/\">nation-pariahs<\/a> \u2013 US and Israel, parasitically bullying and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/antiblack-racism-africa-us\/\">murdering people<\/a> in other nations with impunity over the last century, have now hit a brick wall of resistance and unprecedented pushback momentum as the mortally wounded giant Goliath US Empire is beginning to implode.<\/p>\n<p>Launching war after forever war, preying on weaker sovereign nation-states, at will murdering people around the globe daring to resist or oppose the US\/Western aggressors\u2019 lawless, coldblooded criminality, their Zionist plague is bloodily imposing neo-imperialist enslavement, rampant death and doomed destruction spread to every corner of the world. But now with the imminent fall of the US Empire, its unbridled reign of terror appears to finally be doomed, and about to come to the end of the line. Long overdue Karma is finally catching up to Satanic driven puppet nations like US and Israel, starting with Satanic global puppet masters. Unaccounted-for crimes against humanity are coming under increasing scrutiny and opposition, their death knell growing louder as the impoverished, long-suffering, battered and torn apart world demands justice.<\/p>\n<p>Monstrous supranational predators embedded in the earth\u2019s Satanic power structure have glaringly misused the US-Israel war machine to wreak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/historical-analysis-of-the-global-elite-ransacking-the-world-economy-until-youll-own-nothing\/5805779\">unparalleled havoc<\/a> on our planet throughout \u201cAmerican century\u2019s\u201d heyday. But that heyday is now officially over, and the Anglo-American-Zio Empire is in mortal freefall toward total Armageddon-style <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=74858\">oblivion<\/a>. Historically, waning empires lash out in desperation as they crash and burn. With the unipolar world now in the past, the US finds itself vehemently clashing and flailing against the emergent multipolar world led by Eastern powers Russia, China and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, the Ansarullah <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/todays-david-vs-goliath-tale-us-middle-east-foothold-slips-as-axis-of-resistance-shifts-balance-of-power\/Houthis%20have%20captured%20Yemen%E2%80%99s%20key%20port%20cities%20of%20Mocha%20in%20the%20Red%20Sea\">Houthis<\/a> have captured Yemen\u2019s key port cities along the Red Sea, tightening its Bab el Mandeb chokepoint control, limiting 10% of the world oil supply. Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/645750-saudi-pipeline-houthi-yemen\/\">oil pipeline<\/a> was hit this week by an allied Iraqi militia drone strike, taking it out of operation, cutting off 4% more of the world\u2019s oil-gas-petrol supply line. Though initial reports claim up to five weeks out-of-commission, from the Houthi vantage point of recently acquired territory near the Saudi border to launch yet more missiles and drones, the Saudi pipeline closure could be indefinite.<\/p>\n<p>After just last month Saudi Crown Prince <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c30418m4mj4o\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> was all smiles, signing his Mecca Accord with regional allies (at least on paper) Turkey and Pakistan. But this week he is nervously, unsuccessfully scrambling to seek assistance from them against the underdog pesky Houthis completely <a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/world\/2026\/09\/12\/saudis-shut-down-oil-pipeline-as-houthis-tighten-grip-on-red-sea-shipping\">shutting down<\/a> the Saudis\u2019 oil export lifeblood. Urgent requests begging for American assistance have similarly already fallen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/videos\/world-news\/mbs-arm-twists-trump-for-help-as-houthis-rain-missiles-on-saudi-us-says-no-offers-this-instead-101789419022956.html\">Trump\u2019s<\/a> deaf and dumb ears, prompting Prince MBS\u2019 emergency trip to Cairo seeking help from <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2026\/09\/15\/mbs-lands-in-egypt-on-an-official-visit-talks-with-alsisi\">Egypt\u2019s President<\/a> Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with the result also apparently in vain. It appears the Saudi goose is already cooked after the monarchy\u2019s military, comprised largely of lackluster mercenaries, ill equipped and unmotivated to go head-to-head against the proven superior, seasoned veteran fighters from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/Detail\/2026\/09\/12\/776130\/sanaa-strikes-back-how-yemeni-military-lightning-advance-redrew-strategic-map-red-sea\">Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done, Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf State monarchies, may not exist at all. And, as far as the rest of the world goes, with Iran\u2019s closure of Hormuz Strait continuing on indefinitely, denying up to 21% of all petrol commerce worldwide, a total of about 35% of the global production market supply of petroleum-fertilizer products are abruptly no longer deliverable until further notice. This development presents a dire red alarm emergency to the entire world, but especially the US led West. As of a week ago, this precarious global checkmate shot up oil prices to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2026-09-09\/brent-crude-rises-above-100-a-barrel-as-middle-east-conflict-escalates\">over $100<\/a> a barrel, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/todays-david-vs-goliath-tale-us-middle-east-foothold-slips-as-axis-of-resistance-shifts-balance-of-power\/Houthis%20completely%20shutting%20down%20the%20Saudis%E2%80%99%20oil%20export%20lifeblood\">rapidly rising<\/a> to wreak total catastrophic disaster on the entire world, cascading deeper into global economic and financial crises, the likes of which no one alive has ever witnessed before. Doomsday dominoes are already falling bigtime, and at this point, regardless of what happens next, there is no going back.<\/p>\n<p>The Rothschilds\u2019 global financial banking infrastructure has America (and world) right where they want us, barely able to cope or feed our families amidst <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/davos-2026\/7339214\/global-affordability-crisis-cost-of-living-inflation-politics\/\">unaffordable<\/a> food, energy and roof-over-our head costs, all rising forebodingly into unchartered waters. Along with widespread destabilization in chronic poverty-stricken, poorer nations, <a href=\"https:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/some-parts-of-america-are-already-on-the-verge-of-being-ungovernable-as-rampant-lawlessness-spreads-like-wildfire\/\">civil society breakdown<\/a> in the hard-hit US\/West, especially in densely populated urban centers encroaching suburbia, will witness off-the-chart, record violent crime rates. All of this horror arriving on schedule, according to King Charles and Klaus Schwab\u2019s demonically planned Great Reset [great for them only], co-timed with the infamously dying US petrodollar, with US debt already $40 trillion in the red, will usher in their also long-planned UN Agenda 2030\u2019s sustainable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331124\">control grid<\/a> enslavement system of centralized 15-minute, 24\/7 digital surveillance tyranny. Topping it all off is our killers\u2019 antihuman AI robotics agenda, engineered to ultimately finish off what\u2019s left of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>With the Zionist Jewish triggered World War III Armageddon already underway, all for the Greater Israel Project, delivering the massive goyim die-off to bring back their Jewish Chabad <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/trump-netanyahu-and-putin-death-cult-chabad-lubavitchers-exposed\/\">Messiach Antichrist<\/a>(Schneerson), this long-plotted stage is now set. Chabad villain Bibi the Butcher Netanyahu\u2019s Satanic Jewish State overtly enabled by genocidal accomplice, pedo-blackmailed Chabad Donald Trump and his right-hand Chabad wimp of a son-in-law Jared, at this point with their ethnic Semitic Palestinian purge an irreversibly done deal, again brought to fruition by Lucifer\u2019s long cast die, with a little help from their masonic, fellow Chabad, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/are-putin-and-xi-city-of-londons-controlled-opposition-or-leaders-rising-up-in-a-multipolar-world\/\">controlled opposition<\/a> friends Putin, Iran and China.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s constant missile and drone firepower bombardment has essentially destroyed all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eY70FJNLdEg\">US military bases<\/a> across the Middle Eastern Gulf States. Iran with fellow Axis-of-Resistance Ansarullah Houthis in Yemen, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi militia, together they are US-Israel\u2019s most formidable, now victorious enemy. Together they are totally demolishing the Gulf States\u2019 fragile oil and gas infrastructure likely to take months and even years to restore online. This in turn is reluctantly forcing Gulf Coast Countries to demand US hegemon\u2019s removal for failing to protect them despite lost billions invested.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/israels-stranglehold-grip-on-america-grows-tighter\/\">USDAA 2027<\/a> Section 219\u2019s US-Israel military all-in-one, sealed fate merger now a done deal, the US Middle East presence is confined to tiny Israel and with the US draft now reinstated, Israel as well as many more American cannon fodder soldiers will not survive what\u2019s to come. From madman Bibi\u2019s POV, his Sampson option will no longer even be an option, and the Endgame stage is already set for Armageddon 2027. Destroyed Gulf State wastelands will soon be clamoring for Iran\u2019s forgiveness, having chosen the wrong side for their ill-begotten security, or now lack thereof in this epic doomsday war scenario.<\/p>\n<p>But meanwhile, without an offramp exit in sight to end this war and hostilities feverishly accelerating, it\u2019s virtually guaranteed that the lowlifes Bibi and\/or Trump will do what Israel and US always do to ignite their next war, resort to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/false-flags-loom-larger-as-israel-us-lose-war\/\">false flag<\/a> even bigger than 9\/11 to blame Iran in order to expand their West vs. East WWIII on multiple warfronts. That way both devils Donald and Bibi seize the excuse to stay in power to finish the genocide job against the human race. Moreover, it\u2019s also no accident that Washington is not-so-secretly plotting an expanded array of <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/2026\/09\/pentagons-secret-plan-reviving-cold-war-doctrines-to-lower-the-threshold-for-nuclear-war\/\">nuclear options<\/a> minus any Cold War deterrence in an ever more dangerous, mad, mad world.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s partner-in-crime-to-the-end \u2013 Israel, is currently being pummelled by Iran and its Resistance forces. If Israel continues its airstrikes anywhere in the Middle East, the Jewish State risks perishing as a nation far sooner than later. Iran is making it clear it will no longer tolerate Zionist Israeli aggression, not on its home turf, nor in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon or Syria, especially since US paper tiger has been forcibly defeated enough to potentially abandon its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/opinion\/story\/iran-war-strategy-why-tehran-is-escalating-attacks-on-us-ships-bases-and-oil-routes-2994251-2026-09-14\">military presence<\/a> throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Mossad Director David Barnea\u2019s February 11<sup>th<\/sup> White House visit with President Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/mossads-promises-helped-netanyahu-convince-trump-that-iran-could-be-toppled\/\">convincing<\/a>, if not outright sexually blackmailing <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/trump-the-pedophile-is-guilty-as-sin\/\">the pedophile<\/a> to jointly launch their February 28<sup>th<\/sup> unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Bibi and Barnea knew full well the stakes were high and stacked against their demonic Zionist land grab, fully aware that Iran would immediately close the Strait of Hormuz. But using the overextended US to do its dastardly bidding, not unlike its similar <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=34568\">9\/11<\/a> role, or the US Liberty betrayal, the JFK killing, the stolen uranium secrets, Israel has never been America\u2019s true <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/with-friends-like-israel-who-needs-enemies-zionist-connection-to-jfk-murder-and-beyond\/\">friend or ally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The oft repeated bogus claim that the Butcher and Trump grossly misjudged Iran\u2019s military capabilities is pure bullshit. This went down according to ancient Satanic bloodline script. All the Zionist Chabadniks, Freemasons and Illuminati so often working in tandem<a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/Kushner-Belongs-to-Fanatical-Jewish-Doomsday-Cult.html\">, subversive collusion<\/a> are destined to follow their written-in-stone Kabbalistic Talmudic script, even if it means the historic epic downfall of both Israel and the United States as Jewish State\u2019s feebly fallen, failed protector. Again, according to ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/anunnaki-elohim-nephilim-are-todays-pedo-hybrid-descendants-exposed-in-the-epstein-files\/\">Satanic script<\/a>, Khazarian mafia Israel the backstabber was never intended to be America\u2019s greatest ally but only its worst enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The Chabad Zionist worshippers of Satan, be they in Israel or inside the White House, know full well they were selected by their \u201chigher paygrade\u201d master \u2013 the Jewish State founder Rothschild bloodline along with their entire Epstein class, per their End Times Armageddon script, they must obediently deliver their mission. According to Joseph Chambers, author of the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/2014\/05\/07\/satan-is-practicing-for-armageddon-by-joseph-chambers\/\">The Armageddon Script<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Their script is now written, subject only to last minute editing and stage direction. The stage itself, albeit as yet in darkness, is almost ready. Down in the pit, the subterranean orchestra is already tuning up. The last minute, walk-on parts are even now being filled. Most of the main actors, one suspects, have already taken up their roles. Soon it will be time for them to come on stage, ready for the curtain to rise. The time for action will have come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That time of reckoning appears to be now. With the US proven to no longer be reliably the most powerful nation on earth and the suicidal Western vassal puppet states of Europe doomed, both short on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypioneer.com\/news\/us-watchdog-flags-depleting-weapons-stockpiles-on-west-asia-conflict\">weapons stockpiles<\/a>, the West holds zero chance of defeating their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/12\/08\/opinion\/us-china-taiwan-military.html\">WWIII Eastern power<\/a> opponents Russia, Iran and China. Their dystopian, suicidal madness guarantees utter self-destruction as dictated by their bloodline controlling masters\u2019 masterplan to intentionally, irreversibly collapse in one fell swoop both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/e\/economic-collapse.asp\">global economy<\/a> and earth\u2019s dwindling <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-mathematical-global-population.html#google_vignette\">human population<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world will never be the same as this unprovoked war against Iran &amp; Company is destined to spell the doom and gloom end of both Zionist Israel and Zionist Occupied Government of America and Europe beyond. Lyrics to that old REM classic readily come to mind:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY\">It\u2019s the end of the world as we know it<\/a>,<\/em> [except]<em> I<\/em> [don\u2019t] <em>feel fine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nor will any sane human being left alive on this earth feel fine. Bring on our Creator\u2019s 5-D Ascension timeline ASAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Joachim Hagopian<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Getcha Down\u201d exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master\u2019s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In Los Angeles he found himself battling the largest county child protective services in the nation within America\u2019s thoroughly broken and corrupt child welfare system.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The experience in both the military and child welfare system prepared him well as a researcher and independent journalist, exposing the evils of Big Pharma and how the Rockefeller controlled medical and psychiatric system inflict more harm than good, case in point, the pandemic hoax and kill shot genocide. As an independent journalist for the last decade, Joachim has written hundreds of articles for many news sites, including <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/joachim-hagopian\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>thegovernmentrag.com,<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>stateofthenation.info<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/?s=hagopian\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>jameshfetzer.org<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinteldrop.org\/?s=hagopian\"><span class=\"s3\">theinteldrop.org<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><i>and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/hagopian\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>Global Research<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/joachim-hagopian\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>lewrockwell.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>. As a published author of a 5-book volume series entitled\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/kindle-dbs\/entity\/author\/B07VRD9DJ3?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=2656022011&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=12&amp;searchAlias=stripbooks&amp;sort=author-sidecar-rank&amp;page=1&amp;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>Pedophilia &amp; Empire: Satan, Sodomy &amp; the Deep State<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, Joachim\u2019s books and chapters are Amazon bestsellers in child advocacy and human rights categories. His A-Z sourcebook series fully document and expose the global pedophilia scourge and remain available free at\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pedoempire.org\/contents\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>https:\/\/pedoempire.org\/content s\/<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>. Joachim also hosts the weekly\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionradioarchives.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>Revolution Radio<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0broadcast \u201cCabal Empire Exposed\u201d on Friday morning at 6AM EST (ID: revradio, password: rocks!), and is additionally a regular geopolitical analyst on two weekly podcasts with James Fetzer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/todays-david-vs-goliath-tale-us-middle-east-foothold-slips-as-axis-of-resistance-shifts-balance-of-power\/\">https:\/\/thegovernmentrag.com\/articles\/todays-david-vs-goliath-tale-us-middle-east-foothold-slips-as-axis-of-resistance-shifts-balance-of-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80909,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80905\/revisions\/80909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}