(April 13, 2018 at 11:14 am)Khemikal Wrote: (Iran being a special-ish case..since they have an immediate goal beyond the dissolution of the current world order...they need forward bases to hit isreal)
Iran isn't really all that interested in hitting Israel. They're more interested in having a position where Israel will decide it's not in their best interest in attacking Iran. After all over the last thirty years Isreal has carried out a number of aggressive acts against Iran while Iran has carried out none.
Plus having a sympathetic Syria is a nice counter-balance in the region against the Gulf states. Iran-Iraq-Syria is strong enough to put the buffer on the al-Sauds and their puppet Emirs.
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