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Drifting Toward Chaos: Donald Trump, Iran and Nuclear War
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935)
It’s no...
The Lonely Superpower: Trump’s Iran War and the End of American Consent
The United States currently finds itself in a state of strategic paralysis, caught between an administrative push for military confrontation and a wall of...
Post-Saddam Iraq at 23: The War It Never Wanted Is Back
On the anniversary of the 2003 invasion, Iraq finds itself trapped between the same external powers that have defined — and destroyed — its...
Three Possible Futures of the War on Iran: Stalemate, a Deal, or Regional Meltdown
The war on Iran is now into its third week. The Strait of Hormuz remains heavily disrupted, and oil prices have moved above $100/brl...
Why the Middle East Needs a Three-Axis Deterrence System Amid Iran’s Evolving Threat
The recent wave of Iranian missile and drone attacks across the Middle East has revealed the vulnerabilities of the region’s security structure. Many of...
Is China a silent profiter from the War in Iran?
The recent U.S. and Israeli attack in Iran has once again placed the Middle East at the center of global tensions, with outcomes and...
The U.S. war on Iran could make Europe even more dependent on Washington
During a meeting with Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, at the White House on March 3, President Trump publicly announced he had ordered to “cut...
Pluralism: Iran’s Ideological Grievance with the UAE
As Iranian ballistic missiles and drones continue to arc across the skies of the Middle East, analysts have rushed to explain Tehran's targeting logic...
The Pacific-Middle East Axis: Examining the Parallel Military Expansions of China and the U.S.
China and its People's Liberation Army have developed an ambitious military strategy for comprehensive military modernization, beginning with the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030). This...
When Elasticity Fails: The New Fragility of the Global Energy System
The confrontation in the Persian Gulf has not created new vulnerabilities. It has revealed the architecture of a global energy system that has been...