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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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…
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…