Welcome to the new multipolar world, in which everybody gets to behave like the US at its worst. It is not a safer place. Over the last week, Iran has conducted missile strikes against targets in three sovereign countries — Iraq, Pakistan and Syria. Jordan also fired into Syria. The US (again) hit the Houthi militia in charge of Western Yemen, who have for weeks been launching attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Russia, of course, continues its murderous war in Ukraine to assert