Deconstruct Politics

There's a particular kind of confidence that comes with having the most powerful military on the planet. The assumption that, given enough firepower, money and technological superiority, you can eventually force events to go your way.

But what happens when your opponent doesn't need to beat you on those terms?

The war with Iran raises a rather uncomfortable possibility: that the people with the biggest arsenals might still be thinking about warfare in ways that leave them vulnerable to a much cheaper, messier kind of conflict.

Because you can bomb a country. You can destroy its infrastructure. You can declare victory. But making the consequences of a war disappear is a different problem entirely.

And it's not necessarily the people making these decisions who will spend the next twenty years living with them.

This is Deconstruct Politics. Let's talk about it.