Theodore Grant writes on politics and public life with a long memory and a taste for first principles. Erudite, unhurried, and more interested in the argument than the news cycle.
RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia are being used by American bombers under a policy the government calls defensive — but Iran has named the bases legitimate targets, lawyers are sceptical of the distinction, and protests have followed.
The shake-up, Ukraine's second senior military overhaul in 18 months, follows mass street protests triggered by the earlier dismissal of Defence Minister Fedorov, whose allegations against Syrskyi now appear at least partly vindicated.
Competing U.S. and Iranian declarations over the Strait of Hormuz on 14 July 2026, compounded by a cargo fee announced and abandoned within a single day, have laid bare the structural fragility of a policy conducted through social-media posts and unilateral reversals.
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