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The physical destruction at Fordo and Natanz, while significant, is secondary to the psychological collapse of the previous geopolitical order. Washington’s embrace of a preemptive doctrine has signaled to every global actor—from the corridors of power in Tehran and Tel Aviv to the strategic centers in Brussels and Beijing—that the “middle ground” of the last twenty years has eroded. The era of the “patience and pressure” cycle has been replaced by a state of permanent brinkmanship, where the threshold for escalation is both lower and more unpredictable than ever before.
