Divine Irony In the War Against Iran

For many years, one of the main themes we like to focus on in preparation for the Yom Tov of Purim, and it's an idea we should think about all year round, is the divine irony of the Purim story, specifically what the Gemara refers to al ha'eitz asher heichan lo tana lo heichan, that all the plans, all the machinations that Haman and Achashverosh used to try to annihilate the Jewish people, Hashem co-opted, harnessed them, and used them to backfire, used them against Haman and against Achashverosh, to the point where we pointed out at the very end of the story, that the taxes that Achashverosh used to tax the whole world, we read in Sefer Ezra, those that tax money was ultimately used to rebuild the Second Beis Hamikdash. Well, actually, this phenomenon is coming to sharp attention in the war against Iran. Amid the biggest concentration of United States military build-up in the Middle East in many decades, there is a detail and an element of irony that has not been given the proper attention. Some call them kamikaze drones because they evoke the image of the Japanese suicide attacks on the United States Navy toward the end of World War II. These drones are called the loitering drones, and the real irony of the loitering drone being deployed against Iran is not only the fact that the United States is using as a weapon, the United States as a country that has a nearly $1 trillion military budget, and they're using cheap option, a cheap option, to degrade their military adversary, because instead of a drone that could cost a million dollars, they're producing in mass a $35,000 drone. The real irony is Iran developed the drone and the United States just copied it and is using it against the Islamic Republic. Now, actually, this drone was developed by Iran to help Russia in Russia's war against Ukraine, which there's another aspect of great divine orchestration here because Russia is too busy in the Ukraine to get involved in the battle of the United States with Iran. In any event, the United States noticed and was struck by the great success of the low-cost drone attacks. So, the United States made covert efforts to capture what Iran calls the Shahed 1360s for 136s. They captured one. They analyzed it. They captured it for technical analysis. And they reverse-engineered the specimen of these drones to create replicas. And now, it was reported today the United States used on Shabbos Parshas Zachor repurposed Iranian drone technology to attack Iran. This is what we see not only by Yom Emek but also I want to thank Mishpacha Fuchs for bringing this to my attention. And as a sham, we hope to see