April 2, 2026
Geopolitics · Energy · Gulf
The Last Barrel: Who the Iran War Is Really Against
A structural reading of American incentives — and what it means for the states that thought they were spectators.
The war that began on February 28, 2026 has been framed as a conflict about nuclear proliferation and regional hegemony. That framing is not wrong. But it is incomplete — and the part it omits is the part that matters most for the countries of the Arabian Gulf, who are absorbing Iranian missiles while watching their economic futures be quietly restructured by the very ally whose bases sit on their soil.
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