Tag: Lebanon

Israel has just set off a chain reaction that will set the Gulf on fire

RT By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow). 19-March-2026 Facing a struggle for survival, Iran is making world’s entire energy economy its battleground By March 19, 2026, the pattern is unmistakable. What began as a war centered on Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the waters around the Strait of […]

“Moving Fast; Breaking Things”: A new doctrine takes root; a new era of coerced dominance

Alastair Crooke October 8, 2025 Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant. It aspires to emerge too, as ‘dominant’, deliberately coercive, and radical. Throwing components of the exiting order […]