I remain bewildered.
1. What part of the current entertainment was not able to be expected before the clowns in the big top elected to start playing with zippo's while doused in gasoline?
2. Where was the pushback from the experts and planners and rocket scientists inside the pentagram thingy that have the remit to push back against utter stupidity?
3. Politically, where was the pushback on the bilateral activity of the new Israel-US hegemony alliance to go around capping parties that are radicalised against Israel, and the US?
4. The parties that were asked to join in the party after the party had started going into a bit of a wild party, were not informed of the intended festivities, but are asked to do the clean-up on aisle 13, women's amenities, after the cage has been rattled; was that not foreseen as being an offer too good to not refuse?
When the corporal decided to move his painting easel 2000 miles east with Opn Barbie on 22 June 1941, he did invite similar minded sociopaths to the party, but then after VP got his butt handed to himself in a sling at S'grad, only to turn up as a witness at Nuremberg some years later, did any of the participants then wonder how history might record their actions?
Right now, our lords and kings have a pretty simple set of choices:
Option A: The "oops, my bad" path. Apologise for the damages and spoilage, and leave by the front door.
Option B: "All In". They get kinetic and start getting boots on the ground as the best of a really bad set of choices, or they start vitrifying Iran. Those are disasters in both cases, but they are at least all in. I would think that both would need to bring fodder for the horses for the 4 riders that will turn up in that case.
Option C: what they will actually do. I cannot imagine the existing tenants of the WH or the Knesset taking Option A, they are tear the tent down sort of guys, bonespurs be damned. Option B is a really bad option, that makes Option A look attractive, but, if you are living in a parallel universe of alternative facts, then this is not beyond the realm of possibilities, it is just, what's the word... ah, yes, "Bad".
The rest of the world needs to be at a distance from the fallout, rhetorical and actual, of this party. Joining in this modern day Operation Barbarossa seems to be contraindicated due to the consequences of the principal architects of the events.
Sending in warships into the gulf is asinine. They are targets, heck, you can go to Alibaba and buy for a few grand a system COTS and fill with some bang and luft it or float it towards the deer in the headlights that the warships and VLCCs etc represent.
The existing oil/gas infrastructure of Iran has about the same level of likelihood of surviving this as most of the gulf states and the KSA, which is, not very high. That means this is a risk to... fertiliser not just the cost of your cars fuel tank, and that means the consequences will be felt disproportionately by the most at risk who do not have the funds to compete for a commodity as it becomes scarce. Historically, removing food from the table of the dispossessed and unfortunate has not ended well, it achieves radicalisation, and that increases the threats that exist that are defended by upright citizens such as Kristy "puppy love" Noem, and that, should give some pause if it is considered that the consequences of the 2:00 AM tweet centric decision making does not come back to add some spice into all of our lives.
Pipe lines across the desert are also called targets.
At least popcorn sales are up.
Gotta say, it is fascinating to see the level of competency play out on the world stage, it is about on par with Olaf the hairy ordering his helmets with the horns on the inside.
PS... pretty patterns of tracks of BONES and BUFFs going across France, and then, surprise, not going across France, or Spain or Europe, and going around the turf and getting a scenic of the rock of Gib on the fly by. Surprise. Diego is about the first real base that exists, and that is not without risk. Tel Aviv is probably going to be suitable to basing DOWaaaah assets, not healthy, but at least they are on the "A-Team"....
If this doesn't end up with a war crimes commission at the end, we will have been remiss in trying to maintain some semblance of civility, and I guess there would be a bit of a complaint on double standards from those that became taller following Nuremberg or achieved free board and lodging from The Hague, like Slob Milo.
Hat, coat, door...