A strike on them to correct their malicious behavior is far away from a global war.
I didn't see much concern about Ukraine leading to WW3 until Trump allowed peace talks to start.
During the Biden administration peace was not discussed and not even considered an option by many.
Trump has regularly used WW3 rhetoric about Ukraine:
2022: https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-warns-world-war-3-accide...
2023: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-world-war-iowa-waterlo...
2024: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I was talking about everyone that said the gist of "if we allow peace talks, Russia wins", mainly here.
It's the sentiment that led to the war persisting for these last few years.
No talks from the Biden admin, no public outrage, just support. And constant funding to continue it.
I have never seen this... anywhere.
Deterrence sometimes means applying force.
Iran won't be able to do anything if the US actually applies force to them.
And I highly doubt anyone will actually come to their defense, which is an ingredient for WW3.
I think forcing Israel to maintaining their ceasefire is a significantly easier way of unblocking the water passageways.
You know, with a bonus of preventing hundreds of people being killed everyday in Gaza too.