There is nothing to stop this from escalating, I don’t think abrupt, nonsensical nuclear war is off the table for the US or Israel and I don’t think the centrists of the world are ready for that (which terrifyingly, is really one of the few “gotchas” Trump and Netanyahu have left to flip the script, all the other non-existent international norms people believed in are already destroyed, nuclear weapons are the only one left.).

We have never been closer to nuclear war in my lifetime and it is almost entirely the fault of the US and Israel.

Let me ask you a question, if every accusation is an admission, what is Trump loudly admitting he is about to do?

This conflict leads directly to the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons because this is the first bullshit war in a long time in US history where the existentiality necessity of using nuclear weapons can be invoked without the immediate fear of nuclear retaliation as a consequence, at least according to how the leadership of the US and Israel see it.

There are not many off ramps left here…

Iran could easily end up doing that if things keep escalating, but I think what the US and Israel do will be far more catastrophic for everybody.