The United Arab Emirates is striking Iranian targets. Qatar is expelling Hamas. Arab countries are flying strikes in concert with US and Israeli fighter pilots in the same airspace.
The Middle East is being reshaped, and not in the way that the transnational elite, Russia, China, Iran, and many others either hoped or anticipated.
Russia’s Lavrov meets with Arab ambassadors in Moscow who request that he pressure Iran to de-escalate.
Lavrov rejects their requests and points out that they have not condemned the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran, and that Bahrain reportedly is seeking to introduce a resolution at the UNSC that condemns Iran’s retaliation, but not Israel and the US for initiating the war.
Whether that is accurate or not, Lavrov’s response seems to suggest that 9 days into the war, Moscow’s position is moving closer to that of Tehran.
The United Kingdom and Canada have both mused about building strategic relationships with China, and in almost no time at all, the Chinese and Russians are losing power and prestige, both because their closest allies are dropping like flies and their weapons have been shown to be impotent.
The elite is big mad.