David Sacks

So that would be a truly catastrophic scenario.

And we're talking about destroying the Gulf states economically and then also from a humanitarian perspective.

So I think we have to take things like this into account when you hear people preaching for or advocating for escalation.

You also have to, I think, consider the impacts on Israel.

I mean, it's hard to know exactly how much damage Israel is taking right now.

There's

a social media blackout.

But what you're starting to hear trickle out is that Israel is getting hit harder than they've ever been hit before in their history.

And we're only two weeks into this.

If this war continues for weeks or months, then Israel could just be destroyed.

There are very large parts of it.

Now, I think Israel is a harder target than the Gulf states.

Their infrastructure is more hardened.

Also, they're further away.

The Gulf states are vulnerable to drones and short-range missiles, whereas Israel is mainly vulnerable to long-range missiles.

Nonetheless, at some point, their air defenses could become exhausted if it hasn't happened already, and Israel could get seriously destroyed.

And then you have to worry about Israel escalating the war by contemplating using a nuclear weapon, which would truly be catastrophic.

So there's a lot of scenarios here, a lot of really

frightening scenarios about where escalation could lead.

And even though the United States is a much more powerful country than Iran, they essentially have a dead man's switch over the economic fate of the Gulf states and even potentially beyond that, the habitability of some of these countries.