> iran, and iranian proxies, including gaza/hezbollah and yemen > saudi arabia china needs oil, so they want peace with sa and iran. sa wants peace with israel. the us needs conflict in the me in order to divide and conquer so there is a faction in the us that is stoking wars there. peace between israel/iran/sa would seriously diminish us influence in me, and basically open it up for china. my take is that netanyahu is actually pushing for peace by wiping out hamas/hezbollah because iran cant make peace with all of these terrorist militias around and the war between israel/iran is a front that iran is putting up to hide their hand until israel finishes the job, but that could definitely be wrong, and it all depends on israel actually winning. my take is that iran is close enough to having nuclear weapons now, or actually has them, but undeclared, and so they dont need the terrorist militias any more. under this theory the back and forth rocket attacks are just a demonstration of capabilities between israel/iran to allow them to establish a strategic balance. but this is only a theory and could also be totally wrong.
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