Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@iyad_elbaghdadi 1/5 Something deeper is underway. Not diplomatic or military resolution, or managed de-escalation, but a form of revelation. The Palestine-Iran crisis has reached a threshold where the veil over the death-bound logic underwriting an entire global order is beginning to tear.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 May 2026

@nybooks 1/5 What de Bellaigue’s otherwise searching account misses is that the Islamic Republic’s durability is not only a puzzle of political sociology but of eschatology. Iranian Twelver Shiism is among the most geopolitically operative messianic frameworks in the contemporary world.

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Quoted by@firstthingsmag 2/ An American unveiling of Empire; an Iranian unveiling of the Islamic Republic’s capture of Shia messianism. Each, alone, can be domesticated as national self-critique. Together they exceed both national frames, becoming mutually amplifying disclosures of a planetary reckoning.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @profntwright 1/6 A distinction worth recovering: apocalypse and apocalypticism are not the same thing. Apocalypse is revelation: reality disclosed as it really is. Apocalypticism mistakes a popularized 'end-times' reading of history for reality itself.Quoted by@profntwright 1/6 A distinction worth recovering: apocalypse and apocalypticism are not the same thing. Apocalypse is revelation: reality disclosed as it really is. Apocalypticism mistakes a popularized 'end-times' reading of history for reality itself.