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Tensions Between Iran and Pakistan Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Iran is sowing chaos and terror in the Middle East and beyond.
In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked the world by launching a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. In retrospect, and even at the time, it shouldn’t have been much of a shock to the world’s geopolitical expert class.
By the time 2022 rolled around, Russia had already been on wartime footing with Ukraine since at least 2014. The Ukrainians had already lost thousands of soldiers and civilians by the time Putin moved on Kyiv in February 2022.
On October 7, 2023, the terrorist forces of Hamas shocked the world by launching the most heinous and brutal attack on Israeli citizens since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists tortured, raped, and murdered over 1,200 people in the space of a few hours.
Still, the geopolitical expert class could have predicted the attack. As most foreign policy experts know — and indeed Israel’s security forces know best of all — Hamas has long been gunning for Israel. Hamas terrorists and their affiliates always make their anti-Semitic motives and genocidal plans well-known in the region.
What Hamas lacked, before October 7, wasn’t motive to attack Israel but opportunity. With the debacle that was the U.S. withdrawal from…