Has World War III already begun?
Anytime you keep planning for conflict and planning for war and seeing dangers everywhere, and then taking actions and steps. They're always going to be reciprocated on the other side. And then one day some spark happens which causes a slow grow and slow buildup to an outright explosion and then all bets are off.
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Israel launched and started the attack against Iran. Iran was doing nothing to Israel. The only thing that Iran did in this particular case is that they did not submit to the demands of Israel and the United States, and so Israel chose to start a war. And they had this massive destruction and then they assassinated people.
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We have to change the trajectory, because we are on a trajectory to start a global, to stumble into a global war. There was, I can think a couple of books that we sleptwalked uh in our way into World War.
UK is sending more military aircrafts to Middle East
The prime minister is neither ruling in nor out the prospect of British jets helping Israel – as happened in both April and October last year.
Iran has warned the UK, France and America that were they to support Israel, their ships and bases in the region would be regarded as legitimate targets.
"We've already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region," Sir Keir told reporters.