Fifty years from now, when the historians of the day struggle to make sense of the second coming of Donald Trump, the temptation to refer to the Iran war of 2026 as the "Seinfeld War" will be irresistible. That is because, as Jerry Seinfeld so frequently observed, his hit 1990s television series was "a show about nothing".
The difference, of course, is that while Seinfeld delivered many laugh-out-loud moments, admittedly sometimes with a very dark twist, the war within Iran has been conducted in such a way as to make the very angels weep. This brief but brutal three-month campaign achieved absolutely nothing of substance, cost billions of dollars, up to 10,000 lives, and left the geopolitical landscape more volatile than it was before the first missiles were launched.
