Category: Editorial

The Strait is the hinge. If it stays disrupted, the war spills into global markets and domestic politics—where alliances are far easier to fracture than to hold together.

It wasn’t chaos, it was order, built step by step by men who never thought they’d lost their way.

Twenty-three years after Iraq, the United States is back in the Middle East, fighting a war while the character of the conflict shifts in real time. In its first weeks, the Iran war has exposed vulnerabilities in air defense, strained regional infrastructure, and pushed the fight into the information space and global energy markets.

Support for Israel on the American right is no longer politically frictionless. As the war with Iran sharpens divisions, a growing gap is emerging between institutional positions and segments of the conservative base—one that is already reshaping how politicians speak, align, and manage the alliance in public.

Three Iranian students in an American classroom described a people who love Americans, separate citizens from governments better than we do, and whose youngest generation would rather share tea than a battlefield — and right now, we’re bombing their home.

“No new wars” carried weight when it constrained someone else. Under current conditions, it has receded. The standard changed. The consequences remain.

Washington went to war in Iran and then asked its allies for help. The response was cautious and, in many cases, negative. The alliance still stands, but the margin for cooperation has narrowed—and that carries consequences.

In 1968, the Army reported 128 enemy killed and three weapons found at My Lai. Nobody asked how those numbers made sense, and that failure to ask is the same one we keep repeating every time progress is measured in destruction.

Drone warfare has lowered the barrier to violence. From hobbyist FPV drones to Iranian Shahed loitering munitions, the technology now raises difficult questions about how far modern conflict can reach.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not improvisation but doctrine. Four years later, the war reveals how restoration politics and instability became instruments of state survival.

A veteran writes about the soldiers he couldn’t save as a way to carry the weight of their loss and keep himself standing.

The Epstein files expose not just elite depravity, but a system of leverage and extortion that thrived on silence, access, and institutional failure.