Less than a week before Israel launched its attack on Iran, Tucker Carlson, and other cheerleaders for the Islamic State, warned that the conflict could “easily” lead to a world war in which Russia and China would come to the aid of the Islamic clerics and thousands of Americans would die for the Jewish state.

The war is now five days old, and Iran, with its top military brass joining Qassem Soleimani in a fiery afterlife, is already “urgently signaling” via Arab intermediaries that it wants a ceasefire and return to nuclear talks to try and preserve its power, according to the Wall Street Journal.