The Generators of War
World News Roundup, Part 2
I finished the first part of my world news roundup yesterday with the warning that America’s enemies will try to “figure out what they can get away with. And the only thing we have to blame ourselves for is if we fail to adapt in return.”
The latest enemy pushing to see what they can get away with is Iran. The big story of the past few months is that the Iranian regime really, really wants war with the United States—and we’re trying very hard not to give it to them.
The Generators of War
It is becoming clear now that the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 was the launch of a wider Iranian offensive by way of its proxies across the Middle East.
I will get to Yemen and the Houthis in a moment, and to the drone attack on a US base in Iraq that killed three American soldiers a few days ago and takes us to the brink of war with Iran. But first a few follow-ups to my post a few days ago about Hamas’s war on Israel.
To the surprise of absolutely no one who has been following this conflict closely, new information lays out in detail the extent to which the United Nations aid agency in Gaza was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas.
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