The US and Israel launched a war against Iran. A few months later, Iran has struck American bases around the Persian Gulf so hard that Washington is now likely to be forced to reconsider parts of its military presence. The conflict shows the limits of US power in a region where oil, sanctions and control over strategic trade and energy flows have long been at stake.
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Pyrrhic victory for Western financial markets that breaks the US world power order
The Iran deal shows something bigger than a war The so-called peace deal between the US and Iran is a largely completed peace agreement, even if Netanyahu challenges it a bit by continuing to bomb Lebanon. But Israel will probably have to give in to Trump and the US can no longer afford the political and economic price of…
Iran – bombing democracy and human rights is very difficult
Air raid sirens cut through the night in Tehran. Missiles strike a country where people have long lived under severe oppression, economic pressure and geopolitical vulnerability. In the West, leaders and commentators once again talk about freedom, security and perhaps democracy. But historical experience points in a different direction. War has almost never built human…