This week, a State of the Union with the tenor of a wrestling match: jeers, applause lines, and red-meat rhetoric set the tone for a country already on edge. We break down the drama in the chamber (Ilhan Omar vs Trump, “these people are crazy”, etc) before diving into the escalating fallout from the strikes on Iran: questions of war powers, international law, civilian risk, whether the operation deters conflict or accelerates it, and the cascading geopolitical dominos.