| I think what makes this feel different isn’t the sabre rattling, which i agree has always happened. But just how many large economic powers are at it concurrently. America is using rhetoric that threatens a civil war right now. Israel is attacking all of their neighbours. Europe is shifting to the most nationalist versions of parliaments we’ve seen since the Second World War. And we are see massive global economic decline, civil unrest, and a general atmosphere that things need to change. Unfortunately that often becomes a precursor for war because war is, initially at least, good for business. As someone who’s middle aged and always watched the news closely until very recently, I’ve found I’ve had to stop eating precisely because the current climate feels the closest to another world war that we’ve seen since the previous one. The Golf War was scary because of its risk of escalation, as was the cold war. But what we are seeing presently is actual escalation and by more countries. And seemingly with a population that’s not entirely against the domestic policies that lead to such escalation. |
That’s a bit of an exaggeration. Israel has not attacked Egypt or Jordan.
It has attacked Lebanon after the north of Israel had been evacuated for many months due to relentless rocket attacks from Lebanon.
The only preemptive attack on a neighbour was Syria, after the fall of the Assad regime.