Jeffrey Sachs
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and Israel worked for 15 years from Obama until this past year to overthrow the government.
That was an active covert regime change operation.
Iraq, the 2003 war and the debacle that lasted for years after that
And Iran was the last.
So six of the seven places are in chaos.
And from Israel's point of view, great.
We like chaos.
That means we are the military hegemon for all of that region stretching from Libya to Iraq.
Chaos is great.
They can't get their act together.
They're all in civil war.
What could be better?
The seventh is Iran.
And that's where we're facing right now.
And interestingly, when the war started, Netanyahu tweeted, this is my dream come true for 40 years.
And I had to confess, I made a mistake.
I always said 30 years because I dated it to clean break, 1996.
But I didn't know Netanyahu before he was prime minister.
I didn't know that he had 10 years more of dreaming of this war.
So the off-ramp