25,000 dead now, 10,000 of them children. And America being comprehensively bullied in any feeble attempt it may make to say "Ah, don't kill quite so many, if you kindly wouldn't mind, sirs". And the war is already starting to spread, to Syria, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon; the Suez Canal is already unpassable, and ships have returned to the 18th century route around Africa.