Attack on Iran: First Reflections
Attack on Iran: First Reflections By Paolo Falconio In recent years I have sought, with the tools at my disposal, to contribute to the understanding of geopolitics. I do not possess all the keys, but I know that some Italian academic courses make use of my material, and this encourages me to continue. This premise, perhaps inelegant, is necessary to justify a reflection on Iran that is dissonant with the enthusiastic tones I saw yesterday on our television networks. If one places oneself on the level of superstructure, the death of Khamenei may appear as a relief: a symbolic figure of an obscurantist regime disappears. But geopolitics does not feed on emotions; it feeds on power relations. It is structure, and it concerns survival. From Hans Morgenthau to Kenneth Waltz, what matters is not the moral legitimacy of actors but their capacity to survive within the anarchic international system. For this reason, popular jubilation—though understandable—finds no confirmation in strategic log...