It should be cold comfort indeed, but the successive inability of one US administration after another to control Israel and the extraordinary passion with which the leaders of Western Europe, Canada and NATO continue to defy the United States to risk thermonuclear world war with Russia at the whims of Ukrainian junta leader Volodymyr Zelensky are not unprecedented.

For the dark, universally unacknowledged world history of the past 120 years is clear: Tails Wag Dogs. Global superpowers and great continent-spanning empires are brought into needless total conflict and utter mutually assured destruction by the machinations, betrayals and petty intrigues of tiny postage stamp states – usually with unacknowledged, disgusting and even genocidal recent political histories.

It has happened again and again, like the hugely respected anti-hero in Shakespeare's Scottish play, who is seduced into treachery, murder and escalating deep dives into utter evil by the three dark witch-women who cross his path (A touch that the author expressly designed to impress King James I from Scotland who had grown up with vague and frightful memories of his own mother, other, the murderous husband-killer Mary, Queen of Scots).

We see the same pattern in Georges Bizet's wonderful opera "Carmen," where the noble, gallant soldier Don Juan, convincingly transformed into an American GI in the classic US movie version "Carmen Jones," is doomed onto a road of ruin, humiliation and self-destruction by his infatuation for the aforementioned beautiful and outrageous gypsy seductress.

Thus it was that the Russian people and their elevated tsar himself, Nikolai II charged recklessly into a totally avoidable war with Imperial Germany in 1914 that led to total annihilating catastrophe in order to protect "gallant little Serbia". Yet the Serbian government of the day, like Zelensky's regime in Kiev now, had come to power in a shameless and bloody coup d'etat a decade earlier.

For in 1903 the previous Obrenvic dynasty's King Alexander I and his terrified wife Queen Draga had both been literally hacked to pieces in a cupboard in their palace as they cried desperately for mercy.

One of the masterminds of this disgusting crime, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, also known as Apis, personally signed off on the plot to send assassins to Sarajevo a decade later in 1914 to murder the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a passionate champion of peace, as he rode through the streets of the Bosnian capital in an open motor car with no security screen. Here too, the archduke's innocent and loving wife Sophie was gunned to death at the same time. Murdering innocent women was clearly an Apis specialty.

In the West, the vast, globe-spanning British Empire, controlling one quarter of the territories and human population of the entire planet, charged into needless war with Imperial Germany because of the machinations of a tiny cabal, or inside deep state elite of only four men – War Minister Richard Haldane, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer or finance minister David Lloyd George and worthless Foreign Secretary Edward Grey.

Eleven members of the 15-member Cabinet all from the ruling Liberal Party as well as the vast majority of Liberal members of parliament (MPs) were totally opposed to going to war. Yet it happened.