The LOWDOWN - 23 June 2026 - How Asymmetric Strategies Rewrite Global Power
In the Middle East, Iran is leveraging a fragile memorandum of understanding with the United States to secure oil export waivers and demand an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, all while deploying covert militia cells to target Gulf states with plausible deniability. Concurrently, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is formalizing maritime air and missile defense strategies to ensure it can "withstand the first strike and deliver the first blow," while escalating pressure on the Philippines and normalizing its military presence east of Taiwan. North Korea is aggressively expanding its…
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