But Arabia is kind of a lost cause

Lol

Iran and the US have no real beef besides the personal issues of the israelis and saudis

same with russia really

Well Russia’s authoritarianism runs counter to US economic and cultural issues

let china and russia and europe deal with all that shit

But Iran is actually a natural ally

no they aren't

I mean russia is russia, that's just how they are

we can't change them and we shouldn't try

economically, what's the beef? Weapon sales?

Russia is trying to become communist again

energy? russia is a tiny economy, GDP of italy

russia is only a player because they have nukes

economically, they are minor leaguers

Yeah but they were developing banned missiles

let them become commies that won't hurt us

Russia isn't capable of offering the support to countries in the way that china and the u.s. can

only helps us if they wreck their own country

Never get in the way of your enemy if he's making a mistake - Napoleon

Russia can still do something they have at least some money to toss around to places like Cuba and Venezuela

They really can't afford it

not without hurting themselves even more

they are posing, like we do

they also have an aging military (equipment wise)

we could exchange proxies easily, they get ukraine and all their natural satellites again, we go back to Monroe doctrine

US can't lose

and south america is cooler anyway, and Venzuela isn't near the middle east

giving an enemy the middle east is actually a stealth weapon

the u.s. has a lot of support from nearby south american countries also

HERE YOU TAKE IT

Fuck yea, we could go in there clean up mexico first

wipe out the nacros then legalize it

a country we could actually nation build in

americans can speak spanish

We can't lose things like Ukraine and Saudi Arabia

we've never had ukraine

with fracking, we aren't so reliant on them

and you could argue saudi arabia has us

I do like helping places close better though

petrodollar was a double edged sword, not a pure boon