Now, I've gotten a bit cynical and come to see all this for what it is, a smash-and-grab everything that's left at the end of the world.
So the news, given it's generally inaccurate and misleading portrayal of what's going on - and how easily it's led from the real objectives (enriching of Trump, Family & Cronies and the Expansion of Israel) has generally had me turning it off. The world's greatest military is nothing when it's headed up by the world's most incompetent idiots and has abandoned every moral high ground and scruple to achieve it's end. If the USA wants to kill it's sons and daughters to enrich the Great Orange Shitgibbon and his family, so be it, but I do hope somebody soon steps in to intervene on behalf of Iran, Palestine & Lebanon. They've done nothing to deserve this.
On that note there's the Vocabulary of War - Hegseth (Kegsbreath) referring to the soldiers as "Warriors", the innocent women and children as "Terrorists", the invoking of White Nationalist rhetoric and coopting of Jesus and the Bible to support causes that Jesus never in a million years would have endorsed.
Then, of course, there's the fact that Russia and China are standing by, this killing field is an absolutely fantastic chance for them to by proxy test their own weapons against the former greatest military on earth. And I'm pretty sure they're figuring out where things stand.
So, who knows, maybe the next few years we'll have a new neighbour...
Can't be worse than the one we have.