The Sunni security alignment nobody planned, and the bloc taking shape
A war launched to eliminate a threat has produced something far more consequential: a Sunni security bloc whose strategic calculations increasingly extend beyond Iran
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IRAN WAR 2026
The Gulf states were never built to last
On 28 February 2026, Iranian missiles struck Dubai, Doha, and Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The world called it a shock. It was, in fact, a long-overdue reckoning with four decades of structural denial
IMEC and the war no one designed to last this long
Patrick Wood argues Trump’s war on Iran is about the IMEC corridor. The commercial logic holds. The idea that anyone is actually in control does not