This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Welcoming Bill Raja, my colleague and friend.

He runs the Long War Journal for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

where he is a senior fellow.

One great big war is the question.

Bill, a very good evening to you.

Iran is selling drones to Russia to use against Ukraine.

That is a well-established fact. Reporting recently says

Iran is selling missiles to Russia to use it against Ukraine. At the same time,

Iran is said to be the brain of the octopus's tentacles attacking Israel.

Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the West Bank, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Jihad not to leave out the bad actors in Syria.

All of this coming out of the Iranian war making.

And now we have the Hezbollah war underway. We can presume that Iran will respond

in kind. Which is why I ask, is this one great big war with theaters and Russia, China, North Korea, and Tehran are

contributing in the same fashion that NATO is contributing on the other side, propping up our entrance but not getting directly involved.

Good evening to you, Bill.

Good evening, John.

Yes, I think that's an excellent way to describe it.

You know, look, I go back to the days of the wars against the

jihadists. That's how they viewed it. Al Qaeda described its Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

We called it a branch.

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