The Mechanistic Fallacy — Why the West So Often Fails at Geo-politics
Tue 10:18 am +00:00, 28 Apr 2026Source: https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-mechanistic-fallacy-why-the-west-so-often-fails-at-geo-politics/ Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics. Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the …












