Strait of Hormuz
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Trump’s Hormuz Coalition
European and allied leaders join Washington’s Hormuz coalition while public opposition and legal questions remain unaddressed Recent decisions by Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Giorgia Meloni, Rob Jetten, Sanae Takaichi, and Mark Carney mark a coordinated shift in policy towards direct support for United States operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Public statements issued… Continue reading
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Iran as an Underdog has Proven Effective and now Holds Significant Leverage
The consequences of underestimation and misreading capability by the United States and Israel has resulted in measurable strategic cost The available evidence indicates that the scale and resilience of Iranian state capacity under sustained attack have been materially underestimated in much Western policy analysis, despite repeated cautions issued over several years by academic specialists in… Continue reading
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The Security Council’s Selective Condemnation of Iran
How the UN Resolution on Iran Omitted the Origins of the Conflict and Reflected the Politics of Power The resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council condemning Iran’s military actions across the Gulf has been presented as a clear statement in defence of regional stability. Yet the circumstances surrounding the vote raise serious questions… Continue reading
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The Hormuz Pressure Point Forces a Diplomatic Search for a Face-Saving Settlement
Oil market destabilisation reshapes battlefield calculations imposing a strategic dilemma of war termination under conditions of asymmetric pressure Strategic conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States–Israel alliance developed across nearly half a century of sanctions, covert operations, proxy warfare, assassinations of Iranian officials and nuclear scientists, and repeated military confrontations across… Continue reading
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Iran Rejects Ceasefire Demands Permanent End to War and External Pressure
Iranian leadership argues that temporary truces only preserve the strategic conditions that have produced decades of confrontation since the 1979 revolution. Iranian refusal to accept a temporary ceasefire reflects a strategic calculation rooted in the historical pattern of hostilities directed against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. Tehran frames the current confrontation as the… Continue reading
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The Kharg Island Question After Leadership Decapitation Failed
Why Kharg Island Is Emerging as the Next Coercive Economic Decapitation Option Designed to Break Iran’s War Economy Accepting defeat is not an option; the Epstein coalition has chosen a scorched-earth escalation policy instead. Only yesterday the coalition went after civilian infrastructure, another transgression against the rules of war. They struck a water desalination plant… Continue reading
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Iran War Blunder Seen Through the Law of Unintended Consequences
Strait of Hormuz disruption, sanctions blowback, and energy market chaos exposing the fragility of globalisation and accelerating geopolitical realignment Economic history repeatedly demonstrates the law of unintended consequences operating with particular force during military escalation and coercive sanctions regimes. The confrontation surrounding Iran now produces cascading disruptions across energy markets, alliances, shipping networks, and domestic… Continue reading
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Iran Will Win This War
America Is Losing in the Middle East And Fast, Decades of Military Might, Gone in Days. Strategic analysis of the war involving Iran, the United States, and Israel must begin with a clear understanding of the form such a war would take and the structural realities shaping it. Conventional comparisons of aircraft carriers, military spending,… Continue reading
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Iran is Resisting the “Epstein”Digital Monetary Order
Iran’s monetary independence’s refusal to submit to digital monetary surveillance and centralised financial control tyranny as the underlying driver of the war The sustained pressure applied against Iran over recent decades reflects a structural conflict over monetary sovereignty rather than episodic disputes over security or ideology. Examination of intervention patterns since the late twentieth century… Continue reading
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When Secrecy Fails: How the 20 February 2026 Intelligence Leak Undermined US Strike Plans
Russian intelligence exposure of United States strike operational plans, combined with Chinese satellite tracking, forced asset redeployment and a recalculation of escalation dynamics. Russian intelligence penetration on 20 February 2026 exposed a fully developed American strike architecture that envisioned an opening salvo of roughly 400 cruise and ballistic missiles, coordinated bomber sorties, electronic suppression of… Continue reading
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