The Saudis effectively decoupled key deliverables—like chips and defense cooperation—from normalizing ties with Israel. MBS secured long-sought strategic gains, while the U.S. obtained a vague trillion-dollar investment soundbite and bolstered a defense partnership already complicated by regional politics.
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The strategic value of Iran’s cyber ecosystem lies in its flexibility. State objectives are pursued through various groups, from sophisticated APTs to state-sponsored hacktivist collectives, depending on the required capability, acceptable attribution risk, and desired escalation level.
A U.S. move on Greenland would signal a profound disruption of transatlantic order. The EU could retaliate using its Anti-Coercion Instrument, targeted tariffs, digital regulation, and financial measures like selling U.S. assets, aiming to raise costs and deter military action.
“The United States’ current approach is not working and may even play into Ansar Allah’s, and by extension Iran’s, hands. A better alternative is a multidimensional long-term security strategy that ties maritime security to the Yemeni peace process… acting accordingly.”
By Kheder Khaddour and Issam Kayssi As Washington reduces its presence in the country, the success of its withdrawal and…
“The international system of strategic stability continues to teeter on the brink of total collapse. Russia’s nuclear-powered weapons are intended to play the same role as tactical nuclear weapons: a way to offset U.S. superiority in conventional precision-guided munitions.”
“If Washington and Seoul continue to prioritize denuclearization of any sort, there is virtually no chance that Kim will see potential value in talks. The U.S. goal should be to kick-start momentum on engagement in 2026.”
“The theocracy is rotting from within. It has become a tighter and tighter inner circle around the supreme leader that has detained and discredited many of its own kind in order to survive. The odds are not in its favor.”
“Why did Saddam sacrifice his long run in power, his regime, and ultimately his life for weapons he did not possess? My goal was to humanize Saddam without sanitizing him so that we could better understand how he acted.”
As the USS Abraham Lincoln enters the Gulf, the Trump administration faces a choice between symbolic strikes and a high-stakes decapitation of the Iranian leadership. While designed to “rescue” protesters, military action risks a hardline IRGC surge or a catastrophic regional war.