This is starting to resemble the run up to World War One.
“T. E. Lawrence, White Courtesy Phone....”
“This is starting to resemble the run up to World War One.”
Not really.
People tend to exaggerate about these things way too much.
WW1 was probably provoked by a weakened Ottoman Empire. Italy, only recently becoming a nation, snagged a piece, making other nations scramble to get their piece. The whole area around the Ottomans was a sweating keg of dynamite. The land dynamics are totally different now. So far as I know the present land issues are just between the Turks and the Kurds. Once it starts I expect Turkey to dissolve in a three way civil war.
I believe the first Muslim use of WOMD’s will be against another Muslim group.