Analysing the Gulf War (Part 1) |
The US-Israel Combine’s war against Iran was quite obviously the result of Israel’s, or rather PM Netanyahu’s, personal obsession with getting the US-led West to neutralise the existential threat it perceived from Iran. This was quite in line with the fates that had been meted out to most other states in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region earlier. Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and now Iran have repeatedly borne the brunt of Israel’s abiding insecurities and the US-led West’s rather incomprehensible compulsions to invariably satiate them. Like all wars, this one too has spewed forth multidimensional lessons covering the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic domains. They cover their intricate interrelationships and interdependencies as well.
A war at the subregional level can have disastrous effects at the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic levels, as in this case. A war that has not been conceived well, has not been thought through to its logical end and in which all possible hypotheses have not been considered in detail will always encounter failure and engender wide-ranging ill effects at the regional and even global levels. The current Gulf War has instigated a basic transformation in the Middle East-Greater Middle East Region (ME-GMER) Complex. At the larger geopolitical level, a phenomenal paradigm shift may already be crystallising in this region. Disappointed by the US’ biased, blatantly pro-Israel stance during the war, it may be inclined to move out of its domineering,........