Lol at "Terran empire".
Iraqi militias fired some primitive rockets near some US base and killed an American "contractor". Then US responds by killing 25+ PMU Iraqi fighters. Then pro-PMU Iraqis protest at US Embassy, injuring and killing ZERO Americans. So US assassinate the top Iranian General. Unbelievably reckless decision to assassinate a top foreign general for the sake of some graffiti.
Now Trump is threatening genocidal war crimes openly on Twitter whilst Fat Pig Pompeo cries about de-escalation. The stupid dogs didn't know what they were doing and the situation they've created for themselves.
Iraqi Parliament will vote to remove these colonialist pigs and the entire region will turn into a graveyard for all Americans, as promised. Trump shouldn't have let the neo-cons/hawks fool him, he had no idea what he was getting himself in for.
Since the dawn of mankind it has always been able "might is right". Things like "laws" are merely human constructs and abstractions. "Rule of law" is used by the strong a pretext to oppress the weak. The strong do not abide by law, they use law to control the weak and give a justification. Now the US demise is soon approaching, so the gloves are off and they don't even pretend anymore.
US sanctioned Iran because Iran didn't not play ball (aka did not let US rape it) they couldn't turn it into a puppet that they could then colonize, and since a war was too costly at the time, it was sanctions as the next best thing. Then Trump admin gets into power and rips up the treaty that US signed, then they use that as retroactive excuse to kidnap Huawei's CFO daughter/princess, then they use the fact that they kidnapped the Huawei CFO as justification to ban Huawei and put it on the US entity list. Then tell US companies to stop doing business with Huawei. But when that wasn't enough to kill off Huawei, they wanted to go after non-US companies as well to sanction them if they used more than 25% US IP and didn't stop doing business with Huawei, the intent being to kill Huawei supply chain. When Huawei got rid of US parts, the US then said well that wasn't good enough and lowered to 10% US parts IP threshold and now harassing TSMC to stop supplying Huawei or else it and Taiwan will suffer the wrath of the US government. Get the picture now? This is never ending....
The only way this ends is when the US hegemony is replaced for good, the sooner that happens the better for the entire world.