Biden can’t really win as you say and I don’t really see what the world has to gain right now from a major conflict in the Middle East.
Check your senses they're wrong
It really hasn't this is revisionist history at its finest. Its destabilisation of the region over years and years the West just can't resist sticking its oar in. Too much oil.
True there have been foreign interests, however before oil the framework of the society has not been too stable due to religion. Perhaps Iran (Persia) is a good example - war, stable to be a really nice place (1950s or so when it seem to be doing well) then religious revolution and a case of sects and groups fighting selling oil rights for arms. It was the discovery of oil that was a downfall but then how that new wealth became something to internally fight over for control.
Religion might be a contributing factor for instability but considering how successful the Ottoman empire was for so long I can't really take it as the principle reason things have remained a mess since it collapsed. So the only explanation for it I can see is that Anglo-French imperial blunders over embarrassingly useless borders (the subject of this thread is enough proof) and incessant meddling throughout the last century (and before as a means to limit the Ottomans) must be the deciding factor.
I don’t remember that one but I do remember the killing of an Iranian general in early 2020.
Not a very scary threat TBH. I'd imagine the Americans are chuckling at this.
