In the days since the assassination of Iranian Revolution Guard Corps leader Major General Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent Iranian missile attack this morning on American bases in Iraq, there has been a great deal of speculation this sequence of events could lead to World War III.
Some have even contrasted Soleimani’s death with that of Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, which ultimately led to the First World War.
Except in this instance, it won’t lead to any such conflagration.
Neither China nor Russia have any interest in engaging in a war with the United States that not only risks a full–scale nuclear exchange but also runs completely counter...
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