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Mearsheimer on Israel’s Misconceptions in War with Iran
As the war between Israel and Iran escalates, the dominant Western narrative remains fixated on the idea that Israel is “winning.” But as renowned realist and political scientist Professor John Mearsheimer recently argued in a powerful interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, this belief is not only dangerously naive but strategically self-destructive. Mearsheimer, never one to Continue reading
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China’s Strategic Challenges in Hormuz
A game-theory dive into the Israel-Iran showdown, U.S. dilemmas, and Beijing’s hidden red line 1. A Crisis on Two Tracks Late one Tuesday night, three Chinese 747 freighters lifted off from Xinjiang, filed innocuous flight plans to Luxembourg—and vanished from civilian radar just as Iranian missiles arced toward Israel. The transports almost certainly landed in Continue reading
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Shifting Sands: The Escalating Iran-Israel Conflict in the Geopolitical Chessboard of the Middle East
In the complex and evolving geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, the longstanding rivalry between Iran and Israel escalated dramatically with a series of direct confrontations that have significant implications for regional and global stability. On April 1, 2024, a notable shift occurred when a suspected Israeli airstrike targeted the Iranian embassy’s consular section in Continue reading
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