Loading ...“If you don’t attack our infrastructure, we won’t attack yours”. We saw this in the Russia/Ukraine war too. It’s like there’s an agreed list of categories, where protagonists can upgrade hostilities and risk seeing how serious or capable the opponents are at retaliating. I can’t really see a better way to maintain a ‘forever’ war in the ME. So many countries directly involved – Israel, US, the gulf states, the non-gulf arab states, Yemen – and those influencing from the sidelines like Russia and China. At least Putin has a series of stated objectives and is working towards them. The other conflict seems to be a series of random lobbing of missiles at each other, interspersed with periods where both sides claim diplomatic progress and no diplomatic progress simultaneously until inevitably someone decides a principle has been broken and the rockets start again …..
It’s almost like a computer game. Except with real lives.