Lebanon challenges Hezbollah. Can Iraq and Yemen follow? Aoun speaks, but the world watches from a distance.
Browsing: Karam Nama
Turkey is not a surrogate for Iranian power; its influence relies on state diplomacy rather than revolutionary proxy networks.
Iran proposes a union with no members. Iraq is the last wall. This is not a project—it is an emergency exit.
The state cannot control armed factions. Protesting Washington is safe. Confronting militias is impossible. Sovereignty is violated from within before without.
Moscow exploits Iran’s crisis as bargaining chip, offering seasonal courtesies while refusing military aid or alliance obligations.
Understanding Oman’s middle path: centuries of history, geography at Hormuz dictate compulsory rationality.
Iraq’s sovereignty dilemma: bombed by US and Iran, government powerless. Sovereignty without state.
Iraq’s militias evolved from ideological proxies to market-driven actors: guns for hire became checkbooks.
Air control ≠ regime change. Iran’s ground forces, militias intact. Collapse requires internal fracture, not bombs.
Iraq’s 2003 lesson warns: war on Iran risks regional earthquake, not liberation—regardless of Tehran’s brutality.