It's

 

not a bad basic overview of things but honestly?

I just cant believe that something from the NYT's 

is written on such a...

5th grade reading level?

It's just sad really...

The Global Context of the Hamas-Israel War

The Hamas attack is a sign of a new world order.

(Really?

gee thx for the heads up.)

"Russia has started the largest war in Europe since World War II.

China has become more bellicose toward Taiwan.

India has embraced a virulent nationalism.

Israel has formed the most extreme government in its history.

And on Saturday morning, Hamas brazenly attacked Israel, launching thousands of missiles and publicly kidnapping and killing civilians."

(Lets see...left out the Armenian/Azerbaijan situation and all the coups/Islamic militants in the shahael region of Africa but whos counting? Same point.)

"The simplest explanation is that the world is in the midst of a transition to a new order that experts describe with the word multipolar. The United States is no longer the dominant power it once was, and no replacement has emerged. As a result, political leaders in many places feel emboldened to assert their own interests, believing the benefits of aggressive action may outweigh the costs. These leaders believe that they have more sway over their own region than the U.S. does."

(Oh it's in the midst of a transition to a new order alright, just not the one these types in the media think it is...)

“A fully multipolar world has emerged, and people are belatedly realizing that multipolarity involves quite a bit of chaos,” Noah Smith wrote in his Substack newsletter on Saturday."

Zheng Yongnian, a Chinese political scientist with ties to the country’s leaders, has similarly described the “old order” as disintegrating. “Countries are brimming with ambition, like tigers eyeing their prey, keen to find every opportunity among the ruins of the old order,” Zheng wrote last year."

A weaker U.S. …

"Why has American power receded? Some of the change is unavoidable. Dominant countries don’t remain dominant forever. But the U.S. has also made strategic mistakes that are accelerating the arrival of a multipolar world."

"Among those mistakes: Presidents of both parties naïvely believed that a richer China would inevitably be a friendlier China — and failed to recognize that the U.S. was building up its own rival through lenient trade policies, as the political scientist John Mearsheimer has argued. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. spent much of the early 21st century fighting costly wars. The Iraq war was especially damaging because it was an unprovoked war that George W. Bush chose to start. And the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, overseen by President Biden, made the U.S. look weaker still."

(Four winds leveling anybody?

Four winds etc.)

"Netanyahu, of course, did not start this new war. Hamas did, potentially with support from Iran, the group’s longtime backer."

(Not until here just recently they weren't.

Before that it was the rich Gulf Arab States 

and its just crazy to me that nobody is or will ever point the finger at Turkey where it rightfully belongs. I do better research than a NYT reporter? Interesting. Or? he knows and just isn't telling you, or, he's being censored, in any event? None of those options are very good ones.)

"Hamas attacked Israel in part to undermine an Israeli-Saudi deal, many experts believe."

(Thats the truth, I said the same exact thing to my friend before I ever read one word of analysis about the current Hamas/Israeli war.)

"Such a deal could isolate Iran, Hamas’s patron,..."

(One of their patrons I think needs be pointed out and not the one calling the shots in this current conflict or they wouldn't have been so surprised by the attack.)

Come on NYT, yall can do better than this.

The only way your world will ever make sense these days?

Is to see it through the eyes of proper biblical prophecy.

Multipolars ass...

This gig is about up.