The situation in the Middle East is more dangerous than it has been for decades, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. “I would argue that we have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across the region since at least 1973. And arguably, even even before that,” Blinken said at a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Washington. “And that is the environment in which we’re operating.” On October 6, 1973, a coalition of Arab states, led by Egypt and Syria, attacked Israel unexpectedly on Yom Kippur, one the holiest days of th…