Analysis: Dr. Trita Parsi evaluates the structural miscalculations governing Washington's direct confrontation in the Middle East and its destabilizing blowback on global energy lanes and domestic political cohesion. He illustrates that kinetic escalations have failed to neutralize the regional Axis of Resistance, instead exposing the operational limits of Western force projection in asymmetric theaters. This tactical impasse accelerates the erosion of Western primacy in Southwest Asia, incentivizing regional actors to hedge security architectures toward multipolar alternatives.
