In a highly interconnected world, any nation or group can cause enormous havoc.

The "might" of large nations may rest on weak links which are easily severed.

And their leaders may be oblivious to that fact in their stale ideas of exceptionalism and gunboat diplomacy.

A nation cannot lessen its external dependencies by conquering other nations. Germany and Japan learned that the hard way. Sic semper tyrannis.

Other countries should just view all of this as a declaration of war by this theocratic authoritarian regime. I don’t like Trump and his dangerous corrupt rule, but the rule of the ayatollahs must also come to an end.

This should be concerning.