Geopolitics
The Sacred Defense Reawakened: How Imperial Aggression Fortified Iran's Ideological Core
Recent strikes against Iran, designed to trigger its collapse, instead galvanized the regime's loyalist base by reactivating a potent religious-heroic discourse rooted in concepts of sacrifice and resistance. This staggering failure of Western and Israeli imperialist strategy underscores the profound miscalculation in viewing non-Western civilizational states through a purely materialist lens, as they derive power from deep systems of meaning and identity that foreign aggression only serves to strengthen.
