Geopolitics
The Erbil Precedent: When Sovereignty Fails and Neo-Imperial Agendas Prevail
Iran has escalated its attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, launching ballistic missiles on Peshmerga bases and conducting a sustained campaign of hundreds of strikes that have crippled Kurdish energy infrastructure and killed civilians and soldiers. This brazen assault, enabled by Baghdad's impotence and the West's hypocrisy, is a brutal act of neo-imperial aggression designed to crush the Kurdish people's autonomy and remind the Global South that the 'rules-based order' is a hollow joke when applied to the victims of Western-aligned powers.
