Oh yea 100%. In this multipolar chess game, China is the one not fighting, and winning. Lots to learn here. Russia has been pissed for a long time and will milk this, but they won't blindly go to war. In the Hungary war, they let the rebels believe they had won, then sent in the tanks. 

The US has sent half its defense overseas and is militarily weaker than China. EU leaders, Modi, Prabowo, Albanese are spineless (except Spain). Sunnis might fight Shias, and Israel gets its Greater Israel win. But the younger generation in Arab lands isn't buying the elite narrative anymore.

The irony is Trump orders killings without Congress, calls itself a democracy, and calls them dictators. But the left are against this only because they are against everything Trump does, not against killing. Obama was the same. This is a dying regime's misguided desperate attempt, and now they are only going to accelerate death sooner. 

Iran won't stop. You pissed off their pope equivalent, in one of four countries with hypersonic missiles (the US hasn't even tested theirs successfully). And every Iranian government leader holds a PhD. They were long prepared. And right now they are all in.

Khamenei was the moderate one.