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Can air power alone actually solve the Iran problem? Short News InfoPod by Politica UK #shortnews #iranwar #geopolitics #newsexplainer

Right now the United States and Israel are hitting Iran with massive air strikes — thousands of targets, missiles, ships, radar systems. Some officials say Iran’s military is already “knocked out.” But the real question is this: Can air power alone actually solve the Iran problem? History suggests it’s unlikely. Air strikes are very good at destroying things — air defenses, missile launchers, military bases, infrastructure. But wars are rarely won from the air alone. Military analysts say air campaigns almost never achieve long-term political goals without control on the ground or internal political change . You can bomb military facilities… You can disrupt a nuclear program… You can weaken a regime’s military. But you cannot control territory, remove a government, or stabilize a country from the sky. That usually requires ground forces, internal uprisings, or diplomacy . So the real strategic question facing President Donald Trump is not just how powerful the air campaign...

Radical Ephemera by FRIX Straight off the Tale Teller Club Press

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Radical Ephemera  are one-of-a-kind works by FRIX , created on a reclaimed paper and posters  that were originally surplus, damaged, or destined for disposal. Rather than obscuring the source material entirely, the original imagery is deliberately left visible beneath layers of torn paper textures, stencilled symbols, and hand-applied paint — allowing the past life of the object to remain present within the finished piece. At the centre of the composition, a roughly cross-shaped field of distressed white evokes improvised repair, protest posters, or emergency bandaging. Onto this surface, FRIX applies stark black and red iconography: a headphone-clad figure, a silhouetted body shedding heart-like fragments, graphic lips, and a raw, expressionistic religious image. The words LOVE and SICK flank the central figure, creating a visual tension between desire, belief, consumption, and exhaustion. The work deliberately juxtaposes pop-culture spectacle with human fragil...