A sharply critical commentary argues that much of today’s foreign policy thinking is trapped in misleading narratives. The writer says analysts in the United States, Europe, Britain, Russia and Iran — and possibly China as well — are failing to confront reality and instead repeating assumptions that distort public understanding.
According to the piece, the problem extends beyond governments to outside experts who shape debate. The author suggests that these policy circles have become too comfortable with accepted storylines, leaving little room for serious reassessment as international tensions and crises evolve.
The article presents this failure as more than a technical mistake. It frames the persistence of false narratives as a sign of broader moral and intellectual decline, using stark language to describe what the writer sees as the consequences of geopolitical confusion and entrenched thinking.
At its core, the commentary is a sweeping indictment of the foreign policy establishment across several major powers. Rather than focusing on a single event, it challenges the assumptions behind modern geopolitical analysis and argues that official and expert discourse is increasingly disconnected from the realities it claims to explain.
