Mark Twain once commented, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” The U.S. conflict with Iran sounds a lot like a rhyme with World War I. The portent would be World War III. The parallels are not trivial. They are haunting, and should be sobering.
World War I was called “The Great War” for good reason. It rearranged the architecture of global power more quickly and decisively than any event of the past 1,000 years.
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