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The Empire’s Last War: Iran as the Fiery Finale of the American Century
The military operation against Iran is increasingly turning into far more than just another Washington campaign in the Middle East. It is becoming a historical dividing line. American dominance in world politics is drawing to a close.
Antalya 2026: How Turkey Is Forging Diplomacy into Power, Prestige, and Global Leverage
The fifth Antalya Diplomacy Forum concluded on April 19, and its outcome already makes it possible to speak not merely of another high-profile representative gathering, but of a fully formed political mechanism.
As Iran Burns, China Gains Time, Russia Gains Money, and North Korea Sees Its Moment
As the war against Iran continues and experts debate its likely duration and possible outcome, one thing is already clear: this conflict is reshaping not only the situation in the Middle East, but the entire global strategic landscape.
How Iran Exposed America’s Expensive War Machine
Great powers almost never notice the moment of their own strategic aging. They live too long inside a myth of their own making. For too long, they admire carrier strike groups, satellite constellations, stealth aircraft, layered missile defense systems, and military budgets of astronomical scale.
From Ukraine to Iran: How Two Wars Became One Global Crisis
For a long time, the world comforted itself with a convenient illusion. After the end of the Second World War, it seemed that humanity, having lived through the two monstrous catastrophes of the twentieth century, had developed an immunity to full-scale global self-destruction. Yes, there were wars.
Tehran Changes China’s Calculus
Nearly six weeks of war with Iran have overturned many assumptions about the nature of modern warfare.
Tucker Carlson: Traitor or Prophet? How One American TV Host Split the Jewish World
By the spring of 2026, Tucker Carlson’s name in Israel no longer merely provokes irritation.
Why Trump Miscalculated on Iran
U.S. President Trump has a long standing and dangerous political habit: trusting not the system, not professional analysis, not intelligence, and not subject matter specialists, but his own instinct, his personal sympathies, and those foreign leaders who know how to tell him exactly what he wants to hear. A Fragile Pause, Not Peace
Two Weeks Over the Abyss: Why President Trump Halted the Strikes on Iran
What has emerged in the Middle East is not peace, but a rare, jittery, deeply fragile pause. President Trump did in fact announce a two-week halt to the bombing of Iran on the condition that the Strait of Hormuz be reopened, and Iran signaled its willingness to guarantee safe passage for shipping in coordination with its military.
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When America Bombs, the World Gets Poorer: The Real Price of a Strike on Iran
Every major war has two fronts. The first is military. The second is financial. And while the first is visible on maps, in briefings, and in satellite images, the second runs through the gas station checkout, through the electricity bill, through the price of bread, fertilizer, airline tickets, and ocean freight.
The Gulf After the War: The Era of Old Security Is Over
The states of the Persian Gulf once enjoyed a rare historical privilege: they managed to convince the world that, in the Middle East, there could exist a space governed not by the laws of chronic war, but by the laws of capital, speed, engineering, and long-term calculation.
Hormuz on Edge: America’s Port Siege Could Ignite the Middle East
There are crises that look like just another turn in an old confrontation. And then there are crises after which the very logic of an era changes. The American naval blockade of shipping linked to Iranian ports, launched on April 13, 2026, clearly belongs to the second category.
War with Iran as the Trigger of a New Global Crisis
In world history, there are conflicts that redraw the map of the battlefield. And there are conflicts that redraw the map of the economy. A war around Iran belongs to the latter category. Its consequences are not limited to strikes, force redeployments, and diplomatic statements.
The True War for Iran's Future: Who Will Decide the Fate of the Islamic Republic
A month has passed since the death of Ali Khamenei marked the end of an entire historical era in the life of Iran. Yet, the political significance of this loss has not faded; on the contrary, it has become even clearer.
This Isn’t China’s War. It’s the Crisis Beijing Has Been Preparing For
The energy shock triggered by war in the Middle East and escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz was never China’s preferred scenario.
Kharg: Easy to Take, Hell to Hold
Kharg is not just an island, and not merely a convenient bull’s-eye on the map of the Persian Gulf. It is the central hub of Iran’s oil export architecture, the critical chokepoint through which the bulk of the country’s crude has traditionally flowed from deep inside Iranian territory to the outside market.
The Iran Trap: Why War Could Wreck Israel’s and the Gulf Monarchies’ Endgame
What’s unfolding in the Middle East is not merely a war against Iran. It is a struggle over what Iran should become once the fighting stops. That, more than anything else, is the central tension driving today’s regional drama.
What a U.S. Operation to Seize Iran’s Uranium Might Look Like
Throughout the war with Iran, Washington’s public messaging has shifted - refined, recalibrated, and at times contradicted itself. Yet one throughline has remained strikingly consistent: President Donald Trump has repeatedly framed the central objective as preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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24 December 2025 09:28
