But that is precisely what happened.
No way.
If fucking Britain and America never waltzed in after WW1 and decided to colonise it for their own economic interests, then none of this shit would have happened.
In my opinion, the American Empire is on the decline. China already owns most of the planet (property, raw resources, industrial manufacturing and goods/services).
This conflict will peter out, America will withdraw interests in the Middle East and become a more stable and more domestic focused economy with small amount of domestic manufacturing and most stuff imported, like how the rest of Europe operates. China will overtake the USA as a global empire and military force by around 2035 - 2040. They'll annex Taiwan around then.
This took me about 1 minute to throw together on ChatGPT regarding the shitshow since WW1 in the Middle East:
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^ That alone should indicate pretty fucking clearly that external governments poking their nose in and sniffing around for money is a bad idea. A moderate Islamic conglomerate needs to rise similar to the Ottoman Empire and reinstate
relative and comparitive peace. Britain and the USA need to exit the region for good. (Fat chance though, too much money to be made).
Futher, the remaining extremist fuckwits and their medieval governments need to be rounded up and thrown into the ocean - whether they're extremist Zionist Israeli Jews, extremist Hamas Sunni Palestinian Muslims, extremist Hezbollah Shia Lebanese Muslims, extremist Catholic IRA or extremist Protestant Ulster groups or any ultra extremist Right or Ultra Left groups running around on our streets.
I don't care if they're throwing gay blokes off buildings, cutting rape victims arms off for adultery, starving families of food and water, supergluing themselves to roads or throwing orange juice at paintings in museums. They all need to be fucked off and erased from the planet. Oxygen thieves.