Post-American Middle East: Iran's Strategy & Turkey's Power

It strikes me that Iran doesn't need to beat America. Uh, it just needs to make America winning too expensive. Would you agree with that? That's exactly correct. That's exactly correct. And and and my question is, is Iran now, are they a regional power, a proxy network, an energy weapon or all three combined? Oh, they're all, they're all, they're all the above. Uh, I would, um, I would posit here, and I've said elsewhere, Dr. Artem Aleni, who's a colleague of mine, is also, this is really his thesis, but I, I agree with him and I've written in more detail at my website about the the Wkert brief from on substack. Um, that's a post-American world, or post-American Middle East, rather, uh, soon to be a post-American world. But it's a post-American Middle East that is going to be dominated by five powers, all of them Islamic powers. Uh, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, with their nukes, Egypt, uh, which is the second largest economy in Africa and it's the probably the best conventional military in the Muslim world. Uh, and Turkey. Uh, which, which also is a very potent military ...