UKRAINE, TRUMP, IRAN. Three Consecutive Crises That Laid Bare Europe's Strategic Impotence
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2026

The document is a geopolitical analysis report that takes a contemporary event as its point of departure — the war between the United States and Israel against Iran, which began on 28 February 2026, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Tehran — in order to dissect a deeper and more structural reality: Europe's chronic inability to defend its own interests at the great moments of international crisis. The author identifies seven structural roots of that impotence. The first and m