RIP, the Axis of Resistance

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5 comments

  1. Good riddance.

    Hezbollah and Hamas have been decimated. Iran is incapable of defending its proxies or harming Israel in any meaningful way. Syria has collapsed and been replaced by a more Western neutral government. Israel has normalized relations with more middle eastern nations than at any time in its history. Russia has lost such an absurd amount of equipment in Ukraine that the ex-Soviet stockpile they inherited is nearly depleted. ISIS is virtually annihilated. China is facing economic woes and has so much uncertainty that the chance of them rolling the dice and attacking Taiwan is basically zero. NATO is bigger than ever and its members are finally increasing their financial contributions.

    If you living in a Western or Western aligned nation this is basically the best geopolitical climate since the fall of the Soviet Union.

  2. Hezbollah was the strange one here. Instead of commit to fighting when they shouted their support for Hamas, they instead chose to just take pot shots for over a year at northern Israel.

    And it really didn’t make much sense, they had the ability to really put Israel in a bind if they had attempted a northern incursion while most of the IDF was bogged down in Gaza.

    Nope, they just sat there and waited for the IDF to fully redeploy it’s ground forces against them.

  3. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch

    Surely defeating the US hegemony could have been done without systematic oppression and torture of their own people? For as much as the US is the great satan, the opposition did everything they could to seem worse. Assad left 100k dead in Syria just from his gulags, just mind blowing.

  4. Im from Turkey and the supporters of erdogan treating him like he is the Selim I (ottoman sultan who conquered syria in 1516). Exactly how much influence will turkey have on syria I dont know, but I certainly dont think that syria will be like a client state of turkey.

  5. So what will be the future of Iran now I wonder? Their regional influence has taken a big hit.

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