Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
Our support & mere presence in the region creates chaos.
We have no plan nor endgame - we never do.
However, there is so much money sloshing around and to be made - involvement is irresistible
House Speaker Johnson makes me feel better about government. Has to be said. Making Israel a stand-alone issue is blowing my mind. That sort of thing just isn’t how the game is played.
I think you guys all have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the US is doing with respect to Israel. The US isn't getting involved to protect Israel from the Arabs. It is the other way around. The Arabs think it is the Year 700 and they are just going to march in, murder all the Jewish men and make all the women their sex slaves. However, Israel isn't playing that game.
If you look at the actual US history in the region, most of US aid/influence with respect to Israel has actually been pressuring Israel to give back land it won in wars, and bribing it with weapons (most of them defensive Iron Dome) to stop kicking Arab ass so much.
The US has basically spent the last several decades bribing Israel not to put the Arabs in their place. Because the US values stability in the region, and access/control over Arab oil. What is going on in Gaza is a small taste of what will happen to the Arabs if/when US influence over Israel ever actually goes away, unless the Arabs dont stop their 7th century bullshit.
If the Arabs keep up their Stone Age bullshit, and the US isn't there to pressure Israel to stand down, Arabs will die in the millions and the entire region will be thrown into chaos. I think many rationale Arab state actors realize what the endgame is for them if/when the US empire falls and Israel gets tired of the bullshit; which is why they are trying to make their peace.
However, mainly because of their horrible, racist, supremacist religion most of the Arab people themselves support being anti-semitic and antagonizing Israel; so the more rationale actors have to play a tightrope walk making peace with Israel and appeasing their racist people.