He is right in the geographical sense that America, acting with Israel, is involved in the war with Iran. Iran is an ally of Russia, which is caught in a war with Ukraine supported by Nato, whose backbone is the US. Iran has hit America’s valued security partners in the Arab world. Israel, fresh from its crushing offensive in Gaza, is in no mood to let its existential enemy Iran off the American hook. China, which is an adversary of the US and a friend of Russia, is adamant that America and its allies should not win in Europe and the Middle East because such victories would embolden the US to use Taiwan as a pawn in a war with China.
World wars are not announced in advance. They begin bilaterally, spread regionally, and then go global in an expanding cataclysm of uncontrollable conflict. Today, the question on many minds is: Are we moving towards World War III?
We could be. The Australian soldier-diplomat David Kilcullen argues that a world war usually emerges from overlapping conflicts spread across countries. “When you get multiple campaigns, usually in different continents — Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia — and you have all the same combatants fighting in multiple campaigns at the same time in different continents, that’s definitely a world war,” he was quoted as saying in the Australian media.
