# Dr. John Bruni's Substack

My Substack offers concise, independent analysis of geopolitics, defence, and global power shifts—connecting strategic developments to their real-world political, security, and societal consequences.

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## [Today's 'Strongmen' and the Lost Art of Statecraft](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/todays-strongmen-and-the-lost-art)

_2026-08-18 · John Bruni_

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world finds itself awash in strongmen—figures who dominate not only their nations’ politics but also the international imagination.

## [The Paradox of Tolerance:](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-tolerance)

_2026-08-16 · John Bruni_

When Tolerance Becomes Its Own Undoing

## [The Lost Art of Statecraft](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-statecraft)

_2026-08-13 · John Bruni_

Why We No Longer Produce Diplomats Like Metternich, Bismarck, and Castlereagh

## [When Great Powers Lose Touch With Reality:](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/when-great-powers-lose-touch-with)

_2026-07-27 · John Bruni_

Leadership, Decline, and the Danger of Self-Deception

## [Iran’s Hidden Battlefield: Could Tehran Turn Southern Iraq Into the Next Front?](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/irans-hidden-battlefield-could-tehran)

_2026-07-15 · John Bruni_

The conventional wisdom about a potential U.S.–Iran confrontation is that the United States possesses overwhelming military superiority, while Iran’s options are limited.

## [Three Crises, One President: Is Trump's Strategic Bandwidth Running Out?](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/three-crises-one-president-is-trumps)

_2026-07-14 · John Bruni_

For a fleeting moment, it seemed the Middle East had stepped back from the brink of conflict—a rare pause in a region long accustomed to turbulence.

## [Peace on Paper, War in Waiting](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/peace-on-paper-war-in-waiting)

_2026-06-23 · John Bruni_

The newly announced U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding has been hailed by some as the most major diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East since the initial Iran nuclear agreement.

## [A New Deal for the AI Age](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/a-new-deal-for-the-ai-age)

_2026-06-20 · John Bruni_

The Middle Powers’ Last, Best Chance to Save Capitalism

## [When Efficiency Stops Being Enough](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/when-efficiency-stops-being-enough)

_2026-06-18 · John Bruni_

For much of its modern history, Australia has prided itself on being the “lucky country”: a sunburnt continent blessed with abundant resources, stable institutions, and an unspoken compact of egalitarianism.

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## [The Strait of Hormuz and the Return of Managed Escalation](https://jbruni.substack.com/p/the-strait-of-hormuz-and-the-return)

_2026-06-10 · John Bruni_

Today, as the downing of a U.S.