energy security
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The Energy Shock That Washington Pretended Wasn’t Happening
How the suppression of price signals turned a supply disruption into a systemic crisis, and why the costs are being borne by those who had no part in creating it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The war that began on 28 February 2026 with joint United States and Israeli strikes on Tehran and several other… Continue reading
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Hormuz Authority Shifts to Iranian Waters
Iran-Oman corridor closes the US-escorted southern route and ties oil transit to Tehran’s political conditions Iran’s leadership confronts two sharply different readings of the present phase of its confrontation with the United States. One interpretation holds that strategic patience alone can convert military success into lasting political victory. The other warns that the same patience… Continue reading
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Iran and Oman Close America’s Hormuz Corridor
Joint navigation route through Iranian waters replaces the UN-backed southern path that US warships have escorted for five months America’s five-month effort to secure an alternative shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz is being rewritten by the very ally that helped establish it. Iran and Oman have agreed to create a temporary joint navigation… Continue reading
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The Petro-less Dollar
How Washington’s War on Iran Has Undermined the Financial Foundation of American Power The interruption of crude oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea has produced an outcome that Washington’s strategic planners almost certainly did not anticipate when they launched military operations against Iran in February 2026 (1). Throughout the entire… Continue reading
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U.S. GRAND STRATEGY: Peripheral Pressure and Attrition in the Contest with Iran and Russia
How multi-vector proxy strategies, constrained munitions stocks and energy disruption shape contemporary American attempts to manage relative decline Editorial Analysis | August 2026 American military and intelligence activity directed at Iran has unfolded across several simultaneous vectors rather than through a single decisive campaign. Conventional strikes have been accompanied by continued material and political support… Continue reading
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The Logic of Controlled Demolition
How America’s Parallel Wars in Ukraine and West Asia Reveal a Strategy of Managed Decline The public mood inside Russia has undergone a profound and measurable transformation over recent months, driven by Ukrainian drone strikes that have penetrated the country’s interior with increasing frequency and lethality. The attack on a beach in Gelendzhik on the… Continue reading
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The 40-Day War That Wasn’t: Iran’s Strategic Resilience and the West’s Miscalculation
From Code 110 to the Memorandum of Understanding: How Tehran Outlasted Washington’s Hubris Report: The Araghchi Interview On July 20, 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi provided a sweeping account of the 40-day war to filmmaker Javad Mogouei. The interview, published by Drop Site News, offers the most comprehensive Iranian perspective on the conflict to… Continue reading
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The US has yet to fall on its own sword
The Unending War for Primacy: US Empire Survival Strategy, Iranian Resistance, and the Struggle for a Multipolar Order Editorial Analysis | July 2026 The confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz that began on July 7, 2026, represents not an isolated incident but the latest chapter in a continuous, decades-long war that the United States has… Continue reading
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The Memorandum of Convenience
Why the US-Iran MOU Represents Another Chapter in a Longstanding Pattern of Strategic Deception The June 2026 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran has been presented to the world as a diplomatic breakthrough. According to the 14-point text, the agreement commits both parties to the immediate and permanent termination of military operations… Continue reading
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America’s Global War
An Opinion Analysis of US-Israel-Ukraine Relations, the Integration of Military-Intelligence Infrastructure, and the Pursuit of Global Primacy The United States Congress has moved with remarkable determination to permanently codify the US-Israel relationship through legislative mechanisms that transcend traditional alliance frameworks. Section 224 of the House version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, titled the… Continue reading
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