The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer

A few thoughts on the new Iran war.

I was all set to publish another post about AI, but then the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, so now I guess I’ll write about that. Last June, Israel launched a bunch of attacks on Iran, and didn’t encounter much resistance. Trump briefly joined the fray by launching a couple of airstrikes at Iranian nuclear sites. Afterward, the White House put out a statement bellowing that “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News”. This was obviously false, and so here we are, eight months later, with Trump ordering more attacks on Iran, ostensibly in order…

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