07-17-2015, 09:11 PM
Not to mention we're going to need Iran as halfway friendly toward us if the situation deteriorates further over there. Our biggest danger is inadvertantly creating another Persian empire. As far as Russia and China are concerned, Russia is no longer any sort of credible factor in world affairs as long as they are corrupted by their internal struggles and greed. And China is about to discover the ugly side of capitalism without restraint as their economic bubble pops.
If you want to really figure out who a country is allied with, look at who benefits from the actions we take. The destabilization of the middle east helped out Israel, sure, but it also helped Iran in a lot of very concrete ways.
If you want to really figure out who a country is allied with, look at who benefits from the actions we take. The destabilization of the middle east helped out Israel, sure, but it also helped Iran in a lot of very concrete ways.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.