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Apr 24 2024 
Persian Patience, Flexibility & Encirclement Pushed to Direct Deterrence
Why does Iran behave the way it does? What geopolitical strategy drives her? What are the secret origins of how the Iranian leadership sees the world? Parables of mountain climbing, wrestling and highways in Persian history..
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Feb 16 2024 
The Fibonacci Flower that is Russia
Russia chooses to go slow
with gratitude to Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics
Recently, I wrote about American – a.k.a. NATO military strategy, and the Dunning Kruger syndrome which causes West to overestimate its capabilities and to underestimate those of Russia.
I argued that this way of thinking is a unique expression of Western culture and not found to the… Continue reading
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Mar 16 2023 
Empire: the strategy, the tactics
What we know while watching empire even while it burns, is that it is holding on like nits on a child’s hair to its single polar hegemony. It is doing that with various tactics and a list of these could be outright war, regime change operations, destabilization operations, threats to others and their own allies,… Continue reading
