Israel’s security doctrine produces permanent insecurity in neighboring countries,turning war itself into the primary arrangement rather than a bridge to peace.
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The contemporary Levant demands absolute strategic lucidity, yet current Washington rhetoric risks miscalculating the delicate structural balance of the Lebanese…
Inside the 2026 Iran Ceasefire mediated by Pakistan. Explore why this two-week truce in the Strait of Hormuz is a turning point for the Trump administration.
US-Israel degraded Iran’s arsenal but failed to force capitulation. Tehran retains strike capacity and leverage. Strategic outcome unclear.
A fragile two-week ceasefire pauses the US-Iran conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz while leaving Lebanon’s status dangerously unresolved.
Tehran is replacing its failed deterrence model with a strategy of regionalized attrition and selective maritime chokepoint disruption.
Iran’s easy targets: Gulf states face dilemma over US bases—Oman pushes diplomacy, UAE hostile, Saudi middle.
US risks much, gains little in Iran war—abandoned gradualist strategy for Israel’s maximalism.
U.S.-Israeli talks with Lebanon are stalled because Washington and Tel Aviv seek to impose normalization, not implement the ceasefire.
Experts assess Syria’s contradictory state: external isolation has ended with eased sanctions and renewed diplomacy, yet internally, power is centralized, the country remains divided, and the transition lacks inclusivity, threatening long-term stability and effective reconstruction.