Israel-Hamas War: The race to avert escalation in the Middle East | Ian Bremmer | Quick Take

Everyone's attention now is on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East and trying to figure out how this war can be prevented from escalating badly in terms of deaths and humanitarian catastrophe for Gaza, almost certainly not possible right now. Subscribe to GZERO on YouTube:    / @gzeromedia   Sign up for GZERO Daily (free newsletter on global politics): https://rebrand.ly/gzeronewsletter Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I mean, broad picture, everyone's attention now, of course, is on Israel, Palestine and the Middle East and trying to figure out how this war can be prevented from escalating, escalating badly in terms of deaths and humanitarian catastrophe for Gaza, almost certainly not possible right now. Also, in terms of limiting conflict to Gaza and not having it expand into the West Bank, into Lebanon and more broadly in the Middle East, hopefully plausible for now. Interesting point is that no one in the last ten days has asked me a thing about Ukraine or Russia the first time that that's happened in 20 months. And that's significant because in some ways this is one of the biggest implications of this fight, is that the United States is now all in for its principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. And the importance of Ukraine has become a fairly distant, still substantial but still fairly distant. Number two, as a consequence of that, that's great news for Putin in Russia. Of course, it also comes as the Americans have become much more polarized on the issue of providing additional support to Ukraine. What does that mean? Well, briefly, it means that Ukraine is increasingly going to have the capacity to fight a defensive war. But not a counteroffensive war against Russia. And that means much harder to take any additional territory back... Read more: https://www.gzeromedia.com/quick-take... Dig deeper: Ian Bremmer spoke with Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Avi Mayer and Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami about Israel's response to Hamas and the broader geopolitical context of the conflict. Watch here:    • Israel at war | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer   Want to know more about global news and why it matters? Follow us on: Instagram:   / gzeromedia   Twitter:   / gzeromedia   TikTok:   / gzeromedia   Facebook:   / gzeromedia   LinkedIn:   / gzeromedia   Threads: https://threads.net/@gzeromedia Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications (🔔):    / @gzeromedia   Sign up for GZERO Daily (free newsletter on global politics): https://rebrand.ly/gzeronewsletter GZERO Media is a multimedia publisher providing news, insights and commentary on the events shaping our world. Our properties include GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, our newsletter GZERO Daily, Puppet Regime, the GZERO World Podcast, In 60 Seconds and GZEROMedia.com #QuickTake #IsraelHamas #Gaza