Leon Hadar

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  • May 7, 2026
    Riyadh’s flex of its US-China hedge is less a display of Saudi audacity than sober acknowledgment of Iran war’s grim predictability  
  • Apr 30, 2026
    Ankara has leveraged the conflict to cement Gulf partnerships, Caucasus corridors and budding regional arms sales  
  • Mar 16, 2026
    Watching European capitals scramble to calibrate their response to the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, one is reminded of a recurring scene in a very bad play — one...
  • Mar 11, 2026
    Anti-Americanism runs rife but that doesn’t mean there’s a concerted, coherent and coordinated anti-American bloc  
  • Feb 16, 2026
    Fantasy that maximum pressure plus military threats will produce Iran’s capitulation has been tested repeatedly and failed each time  
  • Jan 12, 2026
    President Donald Trump's renewed emphasis on dividing the international system into spheres of influence represents an overdue recognition of geopolitical reality over ideological...