Marshall and Sagar here. Welcome back to the realignment. This is a big episode because a lot of folks

been writing in, asking for us to do a real deep dive on everything with the Iran, the United States,

and of course Israel, but they also wanted the broader perspective that you and I specialize in.

This is also the realignment's return to YouTube, me coming back

from my extended paternity leave from posting on the platform, but also, Sager, you are recently

back from paternity leave, so at some point we'll have to do a culture-only dad's episode

for the two of us now that we are fathers. I like it.

Yeah, but we are going to go into the things that we do not like that being international

conflict.

So I was pretty together together this show.

I wanted to ask you a first question, which is, what does this situation feel like?

I've got five different examples that listeners may or may not be aware of and can really

ground our thoughts.

So number one, 1981, Israel launches airstrikes on Iraq's nuclear reactor during the Iran-Iraq

war.

Two, 1991, Desert Storm.

Three, the Desert Fox operation where the U.S. struck the remnants of the Iraqi weapons programs

because they were violating the post-desert war sanctions policy.

Four, 2003, we invade Iraq.

Five, we intervene in the Libyan Civil War. So maybe this is like

none of those situations, but to situate listeners, how should they think about these examples?

See, I'm having a really tough time because we have the retrospective and we're just living

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