Short answer: sort of.
Earlier today, I wrote my analysis of Iran’s attack on Israel, suggesting that it was all Kabuki theater, allowing Iran to save face after Israel’s attack on Iran in Damascus. Barring an Israeli strike of some significance against Iran, I stand by that analysis. Allowing a fake attack on Israel was probably the best of some bad options.
That said, when looked at in the larger context of where things stand in the wider world, it is clear that President Biden has painted us into a corner, allowing an Axis of Autocracies to coalesce and grow in power over the past 3 1/2 years. In so doing, he has lit the fuse for a coming world war.
Or perhaps not quite coming. In a way, it is here, although the major powers have yet to fire shots directly at each other. It is neither a “hot” war nor a “cold war” but a warm one.
Call it “global warming,” Biden style.
