Tag: Nuclear Weapons

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Diplomacy Under Siege: How Turkey And Israel Undermine Iran–US De-escalation

A Moment of Strategic Opportunity The fragile path toward an Iran–US agreement is increasingly crowded with spoilers—and not all of them sit in Washington. As backchannel diplomacy intensifies and public rhetoric softens, two regional actors, Turkey and Israel, are strategically intervening to prevent a meaningful breakthrough. Their motives may differ, […]

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Dotty And Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals.  But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is now finally receiving the broader opprobrium it should have had from the outset.  Importantly, criticism […]

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After Ukraine, Iran?

For the “revisionist Zionists” (that is, the successors of Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Benzion Netanyahu—not to be confused with Theodor Hertzl’s “Zionists”), the time has come, after the victory over Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assads, to crush Iran. On the contrary, for Donald Trump, after the pacification of the Ukrainian conflict, […]