An alternate history dream is what if the US federal government & military weren't completely terrible over the past 20+ years? No 8 trillion dollar wars, no 1 trillion a year interest payment on debts, and balanced budget. Where would the nation be without all these disasters? It's all very sad.
Now it looks like the world is inching more and more towards a new cold war and WW3.
I don't know much about the situation with Hamas but it looks like Gaza will be turned into gigantic grave and urban warfare battlefield between fanatical muslims & jews.
The much lauded Israeli M-tanks have been recorded being destroyed by Hamas, they join all the other 5 million dollar tanks (Abrams, Leopard 2 and Challenger) that moving piles of future pieces of Junk.