World War III is Already Here
World War III is Already Here The Iran War is just the newest theater in a four-year global conflict Julie Roginsky Mar 7 ∙ The mistake the West keeps making is assuming that wars arrive with formal declarations. That relic of the 20th century is long gone and has been since 1941. These days, they arrive piecemeal — a drone swarm here, a cyberattack there, a proxy militia somewhere else — until one day the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. That moment may already be behind us. A disturbing picture has emerged over the last four years: the war that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was not a regional conflict. It was the opening salvo of a much larger global confrontation. Now that confrontation is spreading and the front line has moved to a new front. First it was Kyiv. Now it is Tehran, the Persian Gulf, and the Middle East. The players, however, are exactly the same. On one side: Russia, Iran, and a quietly supportive China. On the other: the United States and its i...
