Are we in a global conflict?

Do the ties between the conflicts in Iran and Ukraine mean we should regard this as one, single, conflict? Peter Loge teaches at George Washington University and assesses the way the White House has presented the campaign so far. The military historian Sir Hew Strachan places recent developments in context, and the International Rescue Committee's UK Executive Director Flora Alexander describes their humanitarian cost. The New Statesman's deputy editor Will Lloyd has recently returned from a trip to Ukraine, where people told him of their fears that the Iranian conflict will soak up defensive missiles that could have been used to repel Russian attacks as well as conveying their belief that a third world war is already underway. We hear the thoughts of Nathalie Tocci, who has advised EU foreign policy chiefs, and Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia under President Obama, as we seek to answer the question of whether or not recent events are the continuation of a war that started four years ago.