The middle east countries need to create some kind of NATO type organization and actually stick to it despite whatever differences they have going on
I don't even remember how Lebanon got involved in this. It's like Israel peeped that the world wasn't doing shyt about Palestine and just decided now was an opportune time to get into it with Hezbollah while the U.S aid and weaponry was flowing
They're too divided based on history and on religion too. Lebanon and Syria has a large population of Shia Muslims. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states are sunni Muslims.
It also doesn't help that Saudi Arabia's biggest oil customer is America.
Israel knew this, and they also knew the only two countries that weren't selling oil to America and who have a lot of it are Iran and Iraq. They succeeded in destroying Iraq's infrastructure by convincing our moron party(Republicans) to go in there guns blazing. They wanted and still want the same treatment for Iran.
Note how America has no smoke for Saudi Arabia despite its flagrant violations of human rights and their links to 9/11. There's too much money at play, now.
But here is where things get interesting:
China wants to sell its goods to as many people as possible. To that end, they will contribute to building the infrastructure of those countries they want to sell to. They get mineral and land rights, but in exchange they build roads, schools, hospitals, etc.
Now what happens when you have a growing middle class in countries America doesn't give a shyt about, and they're buying Chinese goods and Iranian/Iraq oil? What happens if to protect it's economic interests, China and these other countries hook up Israel's neighbors with the weapons they need to defend themselves? Israel is used to overwhelming their enemies with modern munitions. While the Chinese and Indians are investing HEAVILY in technology to catch up, our leaders are telling the public they do not give a fukk about making school more affordable and improving the quality of public education.
While these guys are building ports, jets, air craft carriers and investing in making their supply chains more modern and resilient, our government is threatening and bullying it's own allies into spending money on their borders and on their own defense. Money which will have to come from higher tax rates.
While other countries are trying to build partnerships ours is spitting in their face and demanding that they say "thank you, may I have another?"
This country is really about to crash out because of white supremacy and anti semitism (the kind of benign antisemitism that involves telling jews they belong in Israel and not anywhere else). It's like being in the car with a drunk driver who also has a gun.