Yeah, that’s exactly how I’ve always pictured Zechariah 12:3-4 playing out.
In a related aside, I like the imagery of the longer range defense system they have called David’s Sling.
Sooner or later it has to happen as otherwise there will be no peace or at least silence for any length of time. One side has to win while the other loses. Pretty much the same way with liberals, democrats, socialists or by what ever other name they go by as they are not satisfied until everything is in shambles and unfortunately it usually takes a war for things to settle down. As far as a nuclear exchange is concerned it would not be the first one in that area as the last one went down in history as Sodom and Gomorrah… The winds carry the radioactive cloud to Sumer. People die a terrible death , animals perish, the water is poisoned, the soil become barren. Sumer and it’s great civilization lie prostrate. Its legacy passes to Abraham’s son he begets-at age 100 - a legitimate heir: Isaac