World
US domestic politics, Israeli society, the Global South, East Asia, and every country forced to pick a side in someone else's war.
March 2026
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Half of American Evangelicals Think This War Was Prophesied. The Other Half Think It's a Crime.
John Hagee held rallies in 30 cities. Tucker Carlson called the strikes 'disgusting.' Both claim to speak for the American right. The evangelical split over the Iran war is the most important fault line in American conservatism since Iraq, and it will determine the midterms.
Japan Is Paying Iran in Chinese Yuan for Permission to Use the Strait of Hormuz
Japan reportedly agreed to pay in Chinese yuan for Hormuz transit rights. A US treaty ally paying an American adversary in a rival currency for passage through a waterway the US Navy is supposed to keep open. The sentence is absurd. The sentence is also true.
India Keeps Saying It's Neutral. The UNSC Vote, the Oil Purchases, and the Condolence Book Say Otherwise.
India co-sponsored the UNSC resolution condemning Iran's attacks on Gulf states. It's buying Iranian oil under Trump's sanctions waiver. It said nothing when the US torpedoed an Iranian warship returning from India's own naval exercise. The condolence book was the obituary for non-alignment.
Africa and the Global South Are Paying for a War They Didn't Start and Can't Stop
33% of seaborne fertilizer is blocked behind Hormuz. Spring planting is underway. Bangladesh garment factories are shutting down. Nigeria faces fuel rationing. WFP warns 45 million additional people globally face acute hunger. The war is fought between rich countries. The bill is paid by poor ones.
The First American Pope Just Condemned the First American President's War
Three religions. Three eschatological frameworks. All activated simultaneously. Pope Leo XIV condemned the strikes as 'a wound on the body of humanity.' John Hagee called them 'divine mandate.' A blood moon rose over Jerusalem on Purim while Iran fasted for Ramadan. This is what a civilizational war looks like.
The Global South Called the Strikes Illegal on Day 1. The West Took Three Weeks to Notice.
The OIC pre-positioned a condemnation before the first bomb fell. Norway, a NATO member, called the strikes illegal. The BRICS statement avoided naming the US or Israel. The dual-standard critique isn't anti-Western sentiment. It's arithmetic. Same actions, different consequences, depending on who does them.
100,000 Israeli Soldiers Didn't Show Up for Duty. The IDF's Quiet Crisis.
The IDF called up reservists for the Iran campaign. Over 100,000 didn't report. The refusenik movement that began during the judicial overhaul protests found its war. Mossad officers leaked operational dissent to ProPublica. The shekel crashed 8% before the central bank spent $8 billion to save it.
35% of Americans Approve of This War. Congress Voted Seven Times Not to Stop It.
Seven War Powers Resolution votes. All failed. The latest 47-53 in the Senate. Impeachment articles filed and died 344-79. Trump's approval for the war sits at 35%. Gas is $4.50 and climbing. The constitutional mechanism to stop an unpopular war does not exist.