global-political-analysis
Iran and Israel are fighting a war that nobody can win. Japan has learned this lesson before.
2026-06-09 · TIGAI Research Team
From this side of the globe, watching the Middle East spiral into what is now the 39th day of open warfare feels like witnessing a slow-moving policy disaster unfold in real time. The patterns are familiar: the escalation of strikes, the retaliatory barrages, the diplomatic overtures that go nowhere, and the steady, grinding human toll that the world has learned to glance away from. But what began on February 28 of this year — when the United States and Israel launched a coordinated offensive against Iran, triggering the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a cycle of retaliatory strikes — has since metastasized into a regional conflagration with no obvious off-ramp.
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