well, while this will likely not start world war 3, we are seeing that just in general there is a general path of destruction that israel is behaving in, they are necessarily tending towards that direction.  there are already russian troops now in syria and many countries in africa where we used to be. the pieces are starting to fall into place. if israel bears too harshly upon iran then they risk retaliation, not just by iran, but by and large russia essentially. at a certain point, there is really nothing else to do but link it to the greater geopolitical conflicts going on and start a larger conflagration, and their thinking is that maybe they can kill isreal in the process.
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