In the end, the U.S. will probably have made the entire Middle East even more unstable than it already was.
The United States did not simply stumble into a trap in the Middle East; it deliberately walked into one.
The ammunition shortage could now present serious tactical problems in the Iran war.
Infantino once again acted as Trump’s lackey, shattering the illusion that soccer serves to unite nations.
The political power the U.S. built up over years in the Middle East has been shaken to it foundations.
How will the U.S. war with Iran end? Certainly, it is not Israel's victory.
Tehran’s illusion is that by waiting until [U.S.] mid-term elections, which they think Trump will lose, they could claim victory.
Major wars do not always create permanent enemies. Sometimes they create the conditions for entirely new political arrangements.
[Trump] disregarded Arab national interests, foremost among them the Palestinian issue and its legitimate, legal aspirations.
So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.
Another interesting feature is the absence of non-partisan journalists covering this war.