What the US and Israel likely envisioned as a short and decisive conflict threatens to spill over other borders – perhaps not accidentally
In the early hours of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, a certain kind of strategic storytelling almost wrote itself. In Washington and in West Jerusalem, the operation looked designed to behave like a demonstration of overwhelming control, brief in duration, sharp in intent, and psychologically decisive.
The logic that many analysts inferred from the opening pattern was not merely to damage facilities but to rupture the nervous system of the Iranian state, striking at the command spine, the coordinating…
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