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Learning from harmful boomer leaders to prevent tomorrow's global tensions

Vladimir Putin and Benyamin Netanyahu (Image: The Times of Israel) If you know of any young and ambitious political enthusiasts, who are living in countries where their leaders in their 70s and 80s are currently hellbent on choosing drones and bombs over diplomacy and handshaking to handle disagreements of ideology and power, please advise them watch and learn from their mindlessness. Right now, we have 74-year-old Benyamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Iranian regime led by 84-year-old Ayatollah Khamenei doing all they can to give the rest of the world one big panic attack just to prove who is wearing the trousers in the Middle East (spoiler alert: neither are). Elsewhere, we have Russia's 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin continuing to impose fear and bombs over Ukraine. Calling all the shots here is 81-year-old US President Joe Biden who feels the need to get involved in everything - whether it is giving (un)limited ammunition to Israel  and Ukraine , or providing aid to Gaza w