Leon Hadar

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  • Jun 17, 2026
    The end of the Iran War closely resembles that of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.  
  • Jun 9, 2026
    Israel’s ‘hexagon’ gambit has legit foundations in defense and tech, but turning those into a formal strategic alliance won’t be easy  
  • May 25, 2026
    The Iran War has revealed that the Abraham Accords are not only durable but also a hidden alliance system.  
  • May 14, 2026
    Real question isn’t whether Qatar is friend or foe, but rather if the US is actually getting what it’s paying for  
  • 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...