If you listen to the full speech by US Vice-President JD Vance at the Naval Academy graduation ceremony, it will be very clear that the administration is signaling a "generational shift in foreign policy", one that prioritizes "great power competition".

The irony? The American people — the very citizens this administration claims to represent — aren't buying it. Scroll through the comments under any news clip of Vance's chest-thumping rhetoric, and you'll find ordinary Americans asking the obvious: Are we gearing up for another war?

Dear poor people, stop fighting rich people's wars. They have trillions for wars but none to improve your lives and the future of your kids.

Vance defends US "dominance". In other words, he fails to understand that Dominance is the problem. The world is done with the US/UK/Israel, DONE.

Why is it wrong for a country to try to do better? To do better does not mean challenging the US. The dominance of the US is not God given, nor is it a born right.

While the world moves toward economic integration, technological innovation, and climate collaboration, the US elite remain obsessed with military dominance. They talk of "deterrence" while stockpiling weapons, of "alliances" while pressuring partners, and of "strength" while sowing global instability.

The people want peace. The elites want an empire. Until that changes, the cycle of failure will continue.