The central fact the West still struggles to accept is simple: the war against Iran, conceived as a rapid, surgical and politically decisive operation, is not delivering the result Washington and Tel Aviv expected. This is not because the United States and Israel lack technological superiority, firepower or…
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The real fragility of the United States in n this war does not lie in an absolute lack of means, but in the widening gap between strategic ambition, available material resources, and the ability to sustain a long conflict. The problem appears first on the logistical and economic…
Permanent War as the Architecture of the Middle East Syria did not collapse in a week. It collapsed under nearly thirty years of strategic pressure, thirteen years of war, and a long sequence of sanctions, infiltrations, covert operations, bombings, economic attrition, and diplomatic isolation. The gravest mistake would…
There is a point at which wars cease to be merely military campaigns and become systemic crises. In the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran, that point has a precise name: the Strait of Hormuz. But stopping at Hormuz, essential as it is, is still not…
Iran as target, improvisation as doctrine After several days of bombardment against Iran, the most striking fact is not only the violence of the offensive but the political confusion surrounding it. Donald Trump launched this war while speaking at once of destroying Iran’s nuclear program, wiping out Tehran’s…
A War That Does Not Protect Us There is one point Europe continues to avoid, as if it had become inconvenient even to name it: the attack on Iran is not merely another episode in the long hostility between the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic. It…
Iran at the Center of Systemic Competition Beyond the Immediate Trigger The current military pressure on Iran cannot be understood as a reactive episode tied to a specific provocation. It fits into a longer strategic arc that has shaped the Near and Middle East since the end of…
Glenn Diesen’s intervention at the United Nations as an indictment of the Western media system The War of Narratives and Diplomacy Made Impossible Glenn Diesen’s intervention at the United Nations as an indictment of the Western media system The intervention delivered by Glenn Diesen at the United Nations…
Celebrata come prova di unità e di forza, la politica europea a sostegno dell’Ucraina nasconde una contraddizione che diventa ogni giorno più pesante: per prolungare una guerra che, nei fatti, non può essere sostenuta senza il supporto degli Stati Uniti, l’Europa ha finito per consegnarsi a Washington. La…
Per la prima volta dalla firma del Trattato dell’Atlantico del Nord nel 1949, vengono dispiegate truppe non per scoraggiare un avversario esterno, ma per dissuadere un membro dell’Alleanza dall’accaparrarsi il territorio di un altro. È un fatto politico, prima ancora che militare: l’idea stessa di comunità atlantica entra…