A war meant to bend Tehran now traps Washington The Iranian crisis now carries all the familiar features of recent Western wars: overwhelming technological superiority, deep-strike capabilities, enormous military spending and, at the same time, uncertain political results, sometimes opposite to the stated goals. The United States has…
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Iran, the Geography of Attrition and the New War of Corridors Why Tehran Is Weaker, but No Less Central The temptation is strong: to look at Iran today, observe sanctions, oil difficulties, American military pressure, the rise of Turkey, the energy reorganization of the Gulf, and conclude that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Finance is infiltrating every sphere of society, and art is no exception. Beyond traditional art funds and purchase options, financial derivatives linked to artwork prices are proliferating. These instruments enable investors to speculate on the value of artworks without owning them, further detaching prices from artistic or critical…