The third pincer is already inside Europe, in the shape of fascist parties that get funding from the US.

Every war involvement is unpopular in the US, doesn’t make the country pacifist.
“America keeps fighting the last war” they said already way back in the 1960s, for all I know.

“Sorry I’m late. After all those scotches I had to piss like a racehorse.”

Fisiting whom?

Israel might bulldoze Gaza and maybe a few Mashriq countries, but it would suffocate on Iran. That’s a fucking big country.