The drums of war are sounding again across the Middle East. The United States and Israel prepare for what appears to be an imminent, decisive military confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The tectonic plates of global geopolitics are violently shifting. Global powers brace for impact. And the EU? Well, nobody cares about the EU. Because it has simply become insignificant.
This is not a regional skirmish. What the daunting military build-up in the Middle East heralds is a major geopolitical, as well as a cultural clash. On one side stand the US in close coordination with Israel, seen as the solitary outpost of Western democracy in a region historically plagued by despotism and radicalism. On the other side stands a theocratic regime that sponsors terrorism, murders dissidents and actively undermines the West and its allies.
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