Are we in a World War? Why a Chicago professor says yes

It’s not just months of fireball bombings and human misery that amount to “The Return of the World War,” a Chicago expert says. With two wars on different continents — in Iran and Ukraine — involving the U.S., Russia and Israel, with crossover support from European allies, Gulf states, China and North Korea, there is a state of World War underway, according to University of Chicago political science professor Paul Poast. As the U.S. fires on or boards some non-compliant ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Navy officials say 27 ships in all have been turned away trying to access…