Logic

Who owns the US Congress?

I believe Russia and Israel are currently enjoying joint custody of the US, though Israel has the majority of custodial rights.
- Russia during official events and gatherings, Israel the rest of the time.
- Russia owns the majority through the MAGA/Evangelical wingnut lobby and ExxonMobil/BP/Shell in other cases. Israel covers all bases.
I S R A E L

I wonder: would that region of the world have reached some sort of equilibrium if the rest of the world didn’t constantly fuck with them, or would it just be a different kind of shitshow?

Almost certainly the former. Same with Africa.
Almost all major conflicts and broken political situations can be traced back to colonialism and/or organized religion.
- Almost all major conflicts and broken political situations can be traced back to colonialism and/or organized religion.
  The world was a peaceful paradise before colonialism
Everything improving for the better is part of that "equilibrium." Peace and stability improves education which just makes everything better over time.
When Taliban first took over Afghanistan they had banned women from attending highschool. They later opened up "training courses" with same curricilum as highschools that women are allowed to attend.
Progress is slow, but the many economic sanctions placed on the country doesn't help.
Overall situation is still extremely bad there but the reason Taliban got to run that country in the first place is two centuries of imperialism (The British) so more of it isn't gonna help.
As with other regions, the wars between neighbouring(ish) countries subside with cultural & economic development - if the countries (ever) get to that point (cross several big thresholds). And we don't even have enough data to verify if this is even actually true.
But like Europe, constant warring for millennia up until 19th century, then sure, two really big wars, but you could already see how culture & economy of the masses shifted & favoured peace over war ("even with the stinking neighbours who we are racist towards"), it became harder to entice wars and/or to convince people we need a war with a neighbour.
I feel like this sort of rule of majority (in practice) & low scarcity is the natural equilibrium where huge efforts for maintaining peace aren't required.
\ (Even both WW were because of this equilibrium shifted massively into huge inequalities.)
African countries (so lower industrial development & big inequalities even on small scales bcs scarcity for basics, like food & life opportunities, exaggerates those) see constant proper wars (1 on 1 skirmishes between two countries or even regions), but since mass starvation became a thing of the past, so did the fighting become less intense.
\ (Africa is huge tho, generalisations like this aren't representative of actual issues.)
With that I think Middle East would definitely be a much more peaceful place without massive colonialist fuckery over the centuries, or at least without Russia & USA (which covers establishing Israel). Longer lasting stable culture & increasing trade dependency & prosperity + no foreigners financing radical terrorist groups (which comparatively quickly become the dominant power by sheer asset value), yes, I think it would be a much better place & wars a lot shorter.
Now, imagine that Middle East but if the world was already off of fossil fuels for the last century (so less inequality between countries).
\ Maybe a great (and accessible) active cultural hub between Europe & India?
- I feel like without oil the middle East would be like northern Africa. No real natural resources to kickstart an economy leading to seemingly perpetual poverty.
Mmm - I think for a particular definition of equilibrium, yes. That definition might be pretty horrible though. And it's a moot point either way.

I don't know how they did it, but Israel has made America its personal bitch. Everything they do, America just comes and help them wagging its tail and half of Americans will just nod and follow behind like pups.

I don’t know how they did it
This is one of the dangers of having a corrupt government in the modern world that is openly for sale. Conservatives might think it's fine that money can and should influence politicians, but they're dead quiet about the fact that the money doesn't have to only come from American sources.
AIPAC, it funds politicians on both sides. Our gov't is set up like a mafia payout, and the Zionist are running the show.
I believe the Russians refer to it as "kompromat"

The message of this post is spot on but im weirdly annoyed that the meme format has been used wrong lol.

I mean, Israel is just the USA's preferred method of conducting proxy wars in the region... Not that the Zios aren't also happy to massacre their neighbours, of course.

I think I can finally relate. I just had a Civilisation VI game last night where I was trying to win by the domination method (I'm still pretty tame, waiting for a casus belli to start a war), but suddenly three civs got way ahead in culture, science and military, so if I still wanted to win by dominating, I had no other choice but to just surprise buttfuck all three at the same time. The aztecs had been working on the space race already.

...so yeah, I guess Israel just realised that they need to chop chop before Iran builds the Mars base.

(obvious /s, it's disgusting how such aggressors can just get away like that)

I used to play Civ III a lot and one of my favorite strategies was to borrow a bunch of money from a neighbor and then attack and destroy him, which would of course wipe away the debt with the only consequence being that everybody else hated you. It was amusing to learn that this was actually Hitler's strategy with his invasion of the Soviet Union (minus the "destroy him" part, of course). Part of the nonaggression treaties between Germany and the USSR was actually a massive loan to Hitler, adding to the debt that Hitler had already racked up to achieve his "economic miracle".
- Wow, you have yet another thing in common : ). Jokes aside, it's crazy how many things games can teach you about.

Hey, you can't just rebrand literal propaganda as satire!

I mean, it is satiric & very funny, but it's on the same level of fuckery as The Onion reporting regular news - unbelievable, sounding sarcastic, fucked up, & funny (until you realise it's just true :D).

(This is a joke comment ofc, the standoffishness is faked for lame comedic purposes.)

Conveniently you forgot to mention a short list of terrorist groups financed by Iran.

Here you go

Hezbollah (Lebanon) – Iran’s most heavily backed proxy; receives funding, weapons, and training. Operates militarily and politically in Lebanon; hostile to Israel.
Hamas (Gaza) – Though Sunni, Iran supports Hamas with weapons and funds due to shared anti-Israel stance.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Gaza/West Bank) – More directly aligned with Iran than Hamas; receives significant Iranian support.
Houthis (Ansar Allah, Yemen) – Iran supplies weapons, intelligence, and training to Houthis in their fight against the Saudi-led coalition.
Kata’ib Hezbollah (Iraq) – Iraqi Shi’a militia backed by Iran; part of the Popular Mobilization Forces; responsible for attacks on U.S. personnel.
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (Iraq) – Another Iran-backed Shi’a militia operating in Iraq; heavily involved in sectarian violence.
Harakat al-Nujaba (Iraq/Syria) – Shi’a militia supported by IRGC; operates in Iraq and Syria.
Fatemiyoun Division (Afghan Shi’a fighters) – Recruited and trained by Iran to fight in Syria.
Zeynabiyoun Brigade (Pakistani Shi’a fighters) – Similar to Fatemiyoun; deployed in Syria under Iranian command.

Just discovered this (first link random):

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Terhan+clock+israel+wiki&t=fpas&ia=web

It's hard to set points in this story but let's try it.

Israel now is kinda theocratic state with a fascist in charge indeed, but Iran it's no second to it. I hear many talking shit about Us imperialism, never heard a word about China, Russia or Iran's one.

Iran is indeed a threat to Isreal (yeah, I know, those dictatorships like to flex bit they're much worse than they depict). And its imperialism drove to 7/10.

Israel has in my opinion the right to face Iran, what's mad is how they're facing Hamas/Palestinians instead. But we said no? Bibi is fascist to the bones.

Still, Israel doesn't want to destroy Iran and has never set a clock to Iran's destruction.

Israel doesn't want to destroy Iran
Tell that to all the Israeli politicians calling for Tehran to burn, and bibi saying that they're trying to kill the Supreme leader.
Israel definitely wants to force some sort of regime change in Iran. Multiple Israeli politicians have posed with the pretender shah saying he's coming back any day now, and they've tried to decapitate the top of the Islamic Republic multiple times hoping it will instigate some sort of revolution.
- Persia has been around for a minute or two, taking down this government doesn't end Iran
- And that's good for Iran.
  Just cause Bibi's Isreal is shit it doesn't mean getting rid of Ayatollah is a good move. It's good for Isreal, for Iran and everybody else except fucking Russia and those terrorists like Hamas or Hezbollah.
To my knowledge, Iran and other middle east countries are part of the no nuclear NPT treaties with the US. The only one that isn't a member of these treaties is Israel. There is no real proof, despite them trying to pull a W Bush 'they have nukes' lies-to-war propaganda, Iran has any nuclear weapons. Do you know who does? Israel.
- And russia. They may have 'mispaced' a couple in exchange for some drones.
- That's probably cause of the link I just posted?
  They say in every possible way the want to destroy Israel, would you believe them cause they are part of a program?
- It is worth noting, though, that Iran did just refuse to meet their obligations under that non-proliferation agreement (regular inspections of nuclear infra, etc) for the first time since 2003.
  But I do agree that there's worrying echoes of the Iraq war here, given Israel seems to be the only country claiming to have evidence of active nuclear weapons development

If they all just died there would be peace, duh /sarcasm/

Once Israel expanded into all these countries, there will be a whole bunch of new "threats" neighboring it.
Well, exterminating the entire human species would be a working and simple way to achieve peace

while Israel has nukes, and is subject to MAD, there's a ton of debate and uncertainty about how much Iran cares for MAD when they finish their nukes

thats most of the reason why people are worried about them rn if you cant tell

It's a good thing that Israel and the US did everything they could to get Iran to decide not to make nukes instead of antagonizing the poop out of them.... Oh wait.

America.

Ah yes, the people (Iran) doing this are TOTALLY NOT a threat to peace

At least in those cases the Iranian state didn't use their military to conduct the acid attacks. The Iranian government paid reparations to the victims on behalf of the fact the perpetrators were not caught.
I am willing to risk suggesting the damage causes by Israeli bombings has outstripped the acid attacks already. They're completely different orders of magnitude.
People are doing this in other parts of the world too. Maybe we should consider everyone a threat to peace.
So when your neighbour hits his wife, you think it's justified to just straight up murder them both?
- By their logic, you'd need to murder their parent, maybe their boss.
It appears ShartDick has been huffing glue again. I've told them they can't afford to lose any more brain cells, but it's hard to kick a lifelong habit.