THE geopolitical shock of February 2026 was no accident. It was a manufactured crisis, an engineered rupture authored by the Katzenjammer Kids of global politics: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, acting with little regard for the consent of their own publics. Cornered by domestic failures and legal peril, they fused their agendas into a single act of escalation, gambling global stability on the illusion that total war could achieve what decades of restraint had carefully preserved.