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Tweet from the president overnight. let's go to our nick paton walsh in london with more. what else can you tell us, nick? >> reporter: this is a region where the cap locks key is always pressed down. so you're talking into a volatile environment, and more broadly u.s. troops are in northern syria, very close at times to iranian militia. a key u.s. ally, israel, carries out strikes against a key iranian ally, the syrian regime. and iranian-backed lebanese, hezbollah militia slightly to the north of israel. so the scope of some kind of proxy escalation is very much there. it's unlikely that the...