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The wars in Ukraine and Iran are routinely seen as separate—one a grinding territorial conflict in Europe, the other a slow-burning confrontation in the Middle East. This framing is neat, even comforting. Some like to imagine that it all could have been avoided if it weren’t for Trump or Netanyahu’s influence. They like to think that each conflict can be managed on its own terms. This is wrong.
Ukraine and Iran are not isolated events. They are connected expressions of technological change and geopolitical struggle—one driven by the rising strength of continental powers and the relative decline of maritime power, playing out across the rimlands where they collide. Nearly a century ago, Nicholas J. Spykman argued that power is not decided in the continental interior, but along the more densely populated, economically vital edges of Eurasia—the zones where land and sea power meet. These rimlands are not peripheral. They are decisive. Control them, and the balance of the entire system shifts.
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