USA: Great or Marching Towards Isolation? In the Mahabharata, Duryodhana was not destroyed by a lack of resources. He had a full treasury, a formidable army, a sophisticated state apparatus, and the best elders of his era standing behind him. He was destroyed by a deeper deficit: the inability to subordinate ego to statecraft. His downfall wasn’t a sudden accident; it was a slow, willful conversion of power into provocation until war became his only remaining language. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55257/usa-great-or-marching-towards-isolation