The events which have been unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Iran are not just another regional flare-up. They are not episodic. They are systemic. The Israeli-Iranian confrontation, ignited by Israeli Operation Rising Lion on June 13, marks a strategic rupture. A geopolitical inflection point. It’s a new phase in the ongoing redrawing of the geopolitical map of the Middle East. It accelerates the emergence of a new
