My hot take on US and Israeli strikes on Iran… In sum, it:

• Exposed the EU’s hesitancy to upset or confront Trump

• Gave the Islamic regime’s remaining rulers a useful narrative in the holy month of Ramadan

• May have made MBS dance a jig, but will limit his ability to take sides

• Endangered markets

• Showed the importance of human, and specifically women’s, rights

• Reminded me of something Susan Sontag wrote right after 9/11….