We all see that the russians and chineses PRETEND to not care about a full on arms race in the middle east... Iran Turkey, Egypt, Saudis, Emiratis armed...
Why shall only the west be targeted? Because of Israel they reply, seriously you think that the Holy Roman Empire was backing Israel in 1529 or 1683?
maybe a little reminder :
And only from 622 to 750 “Expansion of Rashidun Caliphate” by DieBuche, C.C.0 Dark/Brown area: Expansion under the Prophet Muhammad, 622-632 Medium/Orange area: Expansion during the Rashidun, or “Rightly Guided” Caliphate (First Four Caliphs), 632-661 Light/Yellow area: Expansion during the Umayyad Caliphate, 661-750
today
so as you can cleary see, Russia and China are in reality in the front lines.
Nowadays they believe that by siding with 17% of the muslims (shias) they can inflict pain in the west to please their shareholders.
However if the west can successfully defend it self from the state that will aim their nukes toward them, and even incentive the hostiles to aim for russia and china...
the game could change dramatically, and force some players to reconsider their behaviors which lead to a nuclear proliferation...
I think this strategy is super dangerous, however well played and assuming the risks, it could results in a nuclear or more strikes on russia and china by Islam, if they don't want to return to sanity...
the deck is open, play wisely...
but you can not tell you haven't been forewarned.
the con of not doing this is that the west can always be played as being the "bad guys" by the narrative operators of china / russia, while they know, they benefit full well...
imagine an afghanistan as a full terror state and a west walled...
the real positive event is that the co2 fear of the grettas will be resolved...
because if you think, that they fear MAD there, you dream, they seek it !
some play with dangerous fire...