The Butterfly Effect: How Oct 7 made America the world’s ‘daddy’

That day, a terrorist organisation’s desire to imbibe a little culture by paragliding into a music festival ended up rewriting the world order. The story that followed could have been directed by Quentin Tarantino: gory, non-linear, with all threads interconnected and a few perverts thrown in. Israel’s furious response, with help from Uncle Sam, led to the dismantling of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, tangentially hastened Trump’s return to the White House, and reminded Russia, China, and even Europe who is Daddy.