Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Future of Syria and Turkey's Role || Peter Zeihan" video.
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@HellBot-gi5si They've work together based on checkerboard diplomacy, and the fact that they're both (mostly) allied with the United States.
Put them at each others' boarders, and I suspect we'll see the Israelis attempting to wreck their traditional northern conqueror (Hittites, Ottomans, Assyria, etc) just like they've wrecked their traditional southwestern conqueror (Egypt) and helped wreck their traditional eastern conqueror (Babylon, Iraq, whatever you want to call it).
Israel's overall problem is that it's a middling size region big enough to support a unique culture, but smaller than imperial-core-sized regions on three different continents. It's not even big enough to reliably hold off the coastal / oasis countries (ancient Assyria).
I didn't used to see the problem this way, but Peter's geographic point of view is fairly sensible and even influential, on this score.
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