A new kind of war has just been normalised through global responses to Israeli aggression: threshold war, in which nuclear states conduct wars of aggression against almost-nuclear opponents out of fear that the latter will obtain weapons that reshape geopolitical power balances, while the potential targets of such aggression are incentivised to rush towards acquiring these weapons to avoid the very threat of such aggressive actions.

Also being normalised: attacks on nuclear facilities.

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Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules

Strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran may increase Tehran’s belief that attaining nuclear weapons is key to establishing a deterrence to regime change.

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