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I think the genocide is the goal of Israel, but US simply finds itself trapped because of their decades long position of supporting Israel unconditionally and significant political influence that Israel exercises in US. This situation is an absolute disaster for US right now because it's turning the whole world against them, but they have no political path domestically to stop the genocide train.
Major issue for the US is the Arab world reconciling with Iran. This situation undoes the past nearly 50 years of containment. Iran and it's proxies are now effectively free to do as they please and Saudia Arabia will turn a blind eye.
I think that's the biggest recent geopolitical development in the region as well. China managed to pull off a masterful geopolitical achievement brokering normalization of relations between the Saudis and Iran.
Blinken is shaking his head. Gonna go down as another McNamara. All his work undone because US foriegn policy is guided by Weltpolitik as opposed to Realpolitik.
He looks demoralized and depressed in every recent vid I've seen of him. Project Ukraine is unravelling, Middle East is an absolute disaster, any plans for containing China they might've had are fizzling fast. I think he's starting to realize none of this ends will for this admin or him personally.