re: #51 The War TARDIS

I have a better opinion of Iran than Saudi Arabia and all of those corrupt little statelets.

And I see, even with China’s heavy support, that Pakistan is barely holding together. One massive disaster, and Pakistan will collapse. China can’t keep up its manic growth forever, and the rapid aging of its population has locked it in for decades of problems.

But Iran is hostile to the US, and its conquest of part of the Arabian Peninsula would be bloody. Moreover, controlling that much of the world’s oil supply would be as corrupting as Sparta’s control of the former Athenian Empire after the Peloponnesian War.