Realities on the ground in Iran belie the vaunted statistics about the country being 98 percent Muslim. Illegal non-Islam goes unreported.
Israel faces many challenges that cause its people to worry rather than celebrate recent military victories. But Israel bounces back.
Russian influence abroad is now limited, because Russia might have overextended herself in Ukraine while suffering reverses elsewhere.
Conspiratorial antisemitism (theories of "The Great Jewish Conspiracy") finds disturbing currency on the left and right.
Israel is forcing its elected leader to defend in court against specious charges while he is trying to lead a war effort.
Donald Trump has won on Iran, because he has set in motion a process neither Iran nor Israel can stop without prohibitive cost.
Operation Midnight Hammer should have been an occasion to celebrate a resounding military success, but not all Americans are willing.
Critics of actions by Israel, then America, against Iran make five fatal errors in their assumptions about propriety and just cause of war.
Iran is much weaker after attacks by Israel and then the United States, and will not be able to help Russia as it has.
History affords few relevant examples to judge the effectiveness or the result of the recent operation against Iran and its nuclear program.