Survival as Strategy The real issue is not Donald Trump’s declaration of victory. The real issue is that behind that declaration one can already see a strategic vacuum. Washington can strike, destroy and wear down its adversary. But it still cannot convert military superiority into a definitive political…
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The war against Iran is not merely ravaging the Middle East. It is exposing, with rare brutality, the true state of global power relations. That is the essential point: we are not simply facing an expanded regional conflict, but a crisis involving Russia, China, Europe, the Western alliance…
No Longer a Local Crisis, but a Fracture in the System In the Western narrative, the war against Iran was supposed to be rapid, surgical, almost didactic: a few well-placed strikes, some infrastructure hit, a destabilized chain of command, and the usual belief that technological and military pressure…
When foreign policy turns into sacred history What is taking shape in the United States is not a passing excess of rhetoric, nor the eccentric language of a few overexcited preachers. It is something far more serious: the gradual fusion of biblical literalism, nationalist politics and a vision…
The invisible war Moscow decided to institutionalize There comes a moment when a state stops fighting only on the battlefield and decides to turn clandestinity into a permanent function of power. For the Russia of total war, that moment seems to have a precise name: Center 795. Not…
The most important military fact is not that Iran struck Diego Garcia. It did not. The decisive fact is another: it showed that it can reach it, or at least place it within its operational horizon. Two ballistic missiles were launched toward the Anglo-American base in the Indian…
Hormuz, Dimona, and the war Washington no longer seems able to control There is a contradiction that can no longer be concealed, and it concerns not only Donald Trump but the entire American administration. On one side, the White House lets it be known that it may gradually…
There is a thread connecting the preparation for the Iraq war in 2002-2003 and the way the West has handled the Ukrainian conflict: the unhealthy relationship between intelligence and political decision-making. Back then, while the case for war against Saddam Hussein was being built, the CIA raised substantial…