Too early to tell while i do share most of your point of end game ...
What most people see here is nothing but short time frame . While people like @Gary and me seeing this from a long term view. . Pacific flash point is nothing but a certain . Sooner or later US will get himself in a situation where they barely could give an attention elsewhere but to fend for themselves . They will come out on top no question about it ..but at what cost ? Think very hard people ...china today were germans X5 . What kind behemoth existences do you all need that can stop them ?? For all of their rhetoric and posturing sokor and japan knows how this thing going to play and lamented deep inside . Too bad they allready in US bandwagon and couldn't get off without a massive consequences ...
Live in reality people ..see more and hear more ..
I can talk about China and its own problems but thats a whole other topic.
I'll just leave these numbers here for citizen vs expat populations of some countries:
Qatar: 0.3 million vs 2.3 million
UAE: 1 million vs 9 million
KSA: 18 million vs 14 million
Kuwait: 1 million vs 3 million
Bahrain: 0.7 million vs 0.8 million
The solution for Gazans predicament (caught in hellhole purgatory with hamas being the apex spear) should be easy one if Arab world thinks in proper long term way within the relevant forseeable horizon. That they didn't do very well with Syria, but it can be changed/adapted for Palestinian cause rather than the hypocrisy shown so far compared to the big talk by large parts of Arab world with commensurate privilege.
Palestine will be 100% retained in West Bank where the holy sites are. Islam will not abandon there one iota, so its different to Gaza. So it is best to consolidate there, wait things out and grow... and not bring hamas kind of factions to sacrifice more things recklessly like pawns at Iran's bidding there.
This was shaped in large deal by my sustained discussion with a good Palestinian friend over many years. But its all easier to talk about than put into action with millions of other minds in the fray with their own experiences.
But IMO, in process of more calmer principled praxis and growth you likely will find better rooted virtue as well which dulls the rough edges of identity wars (religions included) and improves the better things about the human endeavour, purpose and meaning in the transitional stage of nationstates we have now in human civilisation.
That would make conflicts like these redundant altogether in pattern like done of the older (pre nationstate) ones....is there great vengeance to be sought upon the Romans of today for the actions of Rome long ago upon Jerusalem? A Jew may freely walk under the Arch of Titus (the rabbinate made it officially fine explicitly in recent century), its a tourist attraction now...though I suppose he is free to speculate what lies in the vaults of the vatican that may have once resided in the temple mount....and that may one day be unlocked too with wiser human reform and progress.
Barbarism has reduced a great deal (% pop afflicted/total) in the last 1000 years (which reduced in turn from the 1000 years preceding it) but it will never quite be fully gone.....but we know enough to keep it minimal if we apply the right principled enlightened system....there are many tools to resolve disputes by sheer force of weight without need of taking human life, which is precious to every moral system underlying every large religion....tracing back to the common golden rule.
China will surprise a lot of you on Taiwan that way I still feel (contrary to what is put out in largest parts of world media fearful of China). Use your weight and gravity in low risk instead of your punch and high risk. But maybe I am wrong. I only speak Cantonese and grew up in HK, it is only a drop in the world of China as much as I try improve my mandarin now....despite the CCP having made me persona non-grata in HK for I rebelled in ways not to their liking. But China is far larger than the CCP in the end. No one knows it better than the Chinese themselves....that will be the path of China's slow redemption....because the economic rise and military strength is not sufficient thing on its own.
Anyway it is imperative that Arab world (especially establishment) becomes wiser and think long term. They are riven by too much corruption, hypocrisy and emotional big talking (rather than constructive wise "wait it out" measures that would serve the palestinians the best)...the oil wealth has dulled their senses where they have most levers at disposal. They get led by follies quite easily. Idle minds and idle time have made the situation quite hollow and delusional. You cant organise things on delusion.
Hey but hope springs eternal.
