So it begins. The attack on Kuwait International Airport by Iranian drones, killing one and wounding dozens, is not an isolated incident. It is a puncture in the flimsy tyre of Gulf security.
For years we have watched the West dither, half-heartedly patrolling shipping lanes and signing toothless nuclear deals, while Tehran’s mullahs methodically built a network of proxies and precision strike capabilities. Now the chickens come home to roost. The surprise is not that a drone slipped through, but that the entire apparatus of American and European deterrence did not so much as blink.
We have grown fat on the myth of invulnerability, forgetting that the Persians once sacked Babylon. Watch for the second strike, and the third. This is not a crisis; it is a slow-motion collapse of post-1945 order, and no amount of United Nations resolutions will patch it.
