A war without winners: How the Iran conflict undermined every major power

The Global Consequences of Starting a War Without a Strategy and a Clear Objective.

Image: AI-generated using Grok’s system Antonio Navalón Today, at the slightest tremor, the whole world trembles. It may be due to malice, ignorance, or that almost automatic need to react without understanding why. However, this is nothing new. It has happened before. Back in 1938, Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” succeeded in sowing panic among a large portion of the American population, who even came to believe they w…

A war without winners: How the Iran conflict undermined every major power

The brief but intense confrontation between the United States and Iran was widely expected to produce a decisive shift in the balance of power in the Middle East. Instead, it has achieved the opposite. The 40-day conflict, which ended in a fragile and contested ceasefire, has demonstrated the limits of military coercion, exposed deep divisions among allies, and intensified instability across an already volatile region. Far from resolving long-st…