The Mechanistic Fallacy — Why the West So Often Fails at Geo-politics, by Alastair Crooke

Apr 27th 2026 12:00am EDT

Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics. Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future…

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