The World Keeps Asking Iran the Wrong Question
"Washington and Tel Aviv entered the 2026 war wanting something contained—pressure on the nuclear program, the missiles, the regional network. Iran expanded the frame. When military pressure reached a threshold, Tehran closed Hormuz, converting the confrontation into a global economic crisis. Every time Washington sets the rules of the game, Tehran changes the playing field."
Starlink Has Privatized Geopolitics
"A private company is now a gatekeeper in orbit, helping decide who connects as well as where, under what conditions, and with what technical constraints. In a growing number of conflicts, these decisions carry military and political effects that states struggle to replicate or control...Starlink is an unusually concentrated case of private discretion over public security functions."
The Clash of Hypocrisies: As Washington abandons any pretense of a just global order, citizens around the world will continue to demand one.
"The mask of international cooperation supported a hypocritical system in which powerful nations routinely broke the rules. Yet these same nations needed to justify their violations through moral acrobatics that, paradoxically, reinforced the system’s values"