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American and Saudi warplanes have struck Iraqi militias aligned with Tehran while Houthi forces renew attacks on Red Sea shipping, pulling Saudi Arabia into renewed Yemeni offensives and dragging Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan into the widening circle of strikes.
This metastasis began when Washington chose to answer Iranian pressure through direct intervention rather than measured withdrawal, handing the clerical regime the very pretext it needed to scatter conflict across every neighbor.
The pattern repeats an older lesson: once a great power abandons the principle of delimited sovereignty, every frontier becomes a battlefield and every ally becomes a liability.
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the religious wars of Europe by establishing that each realm would order its own household without external crusade or proxy vendetta; that settlement created the very architecture of national independence now dissolving under successive American expeditions.
Scripture and the creeds alike teach that rulers are ministers of God within their own bounds, not universal arbiters of distant thrones; when those bounds are erased in the name of strategic depth, the City of Man devours the inheritance of ordered peoples.
The Managerial Priesthood in Washington and its Gulf clients now treat the entire region as a single administrative theater, erasing the distinctions between American interest and Saudi ambition, Iranian retaliation and Emirati survival.
The Faithful Remnant in the historic nations must therefore refuse every further entanglement that subordinates their own borders and households to the maintenance of foreign regimes.
Only a return to strict national sovereignty, enforced by leaders who place the safety of their own people above the prestige of distant alliances, can arrest the collapse.
