Yeh, I dunno about israel's influence dropping following gaza.
From what I understood they didnt stuff up too badly this time, from a strictly military perspective. I got no doubt that lebanon was a much needed wakeup call for them tho. Will China back the ME states for long? after all, following russias precedent in georgia, china can head over to siberia, which is ethnically more chinese anyway, and make use of their resources. How far are they from this?
You're right though, Iran and Iraq will soon unite under a shi'a banner and scare the ****e outta the lower gulf states. It is
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