A Franz Ferdinand moment?

Mark Twain once observed that history does not repeat, but it does rhyme. Those words have never been truer than at the present moment, as the world holds its collective breath in dreadful anticipation for what may next happen in the ongoing Mideast crisis that has plagued world affairs since the brutal Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7 of last year. After months of shadowboxing between Israel and Iran, fears abound that an actual war is about to erupt.