OFF THE BEATEN PATH
For more than a week, the Middle East has been engulfed in a new wave of violence. Last week, tensions that had simmered for decades erupted when USA and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran. In swift retaliation, Iran targeted US military bases and other sites in several countries across the region with missiles and drones. The cycle of violence has intensified, drawing multiple countries and raising fears of a wider regional conflict.
This is not a geopolitical analysis. Experts — credentialed and otherwise — are already dissecting the causes and consequences of this conflict. Social media has become a battlefield of its own, where distortion spreads faster than verified facts and public understanding is often the first casual
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