Given that the world's rending of garments over the annihilation of Gaza and the more than 50,000 dead has been essentially declarative (with particular restraint in the response of Arab countries) and that Russia has other work to do in Ukraine, Israel has turned the Middle East into its highway of most coveted desires.
Has Israel dragged the United States into the war against Iran? Rather, it was one for the other. The coincidence of Trump and Netanyahu in power made it a matter of time for a leap of scale in the region and the definitive shamelessness of the implicit and atavistic law of the strongest.
Having the atomic bomb is not the same as not having it (that's why the Western response in Russia is more tepid than Zelensky would like), and the United States has helped Israel so that Iran won't have it, for who knows how many more decades. This morning, the Israeli victory is incontestable.
In this new world, Europe doesn't know how to move. We have some cards, but we don't know how to play this brutal game, and in fact, our until now great ally, the United States, only expects us to buy more weapons if we want to sit at the table with them.
We have definitively entered a new chapter in universal history in which diplomacy and international law are presented as a hindrance to the faint-hearted and have been replaced by lethal military superiority and the lack of scruples in using it. Concepts such as soft power, smart power, and even the rhetoric of good versus evil are no longer necessary. Now everything is rawer, cleaner, and more stripped down: if you want peace, prepare to surrender.
