Baldur Bjarnason looks at the pivotal event that is the USA's defeat by Iran through the lens of the software industry.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/

'What sets the recent crises – Hormuz, tariffs, and Greenland – apart is how the US has used them as an opportunity to deliberately signal the end of its own empire. They first turned on their trading partners, then their allies in Europe, and then they delivered one of this century’s biggest economic and energy crises to their allies in Asia.'