Tom Bilyeu

They want options.

A dominant entrenched America in their backyard shuts down some of those options.

So the ideal outcome for Riyadh is a wounded Iran and a distracted, overextended America that needs Saudi cooperation more than ever.

They want the U.S.

in this war.

They just don't want the U.S.

to win it cleanly.

Israel's calculus is more complex and definitely more unsettling.

There are powerful factions within Israeli leadership who view this conflict explicitly in biblical

End of days terms.

Jiang is direct about this in a way that most analysts just refuse to talk about.

Admittedly, it sounds pretty crazy, but these factions want Iran destroyed, not weakened, destroyed.

But some of them also believe that unchecked American imperial power is ultimately an obstacle to what God intends to unfold in the region.

And they are pushing politically to make sure that America is not going to be there in the end.

Much like Saudi Arabia, they want the U.S.

's help to weaken Iran, but for the biblical prophecies to come true, the U.S.

must be out of the picture for the War of Gog and Magog to take place and fulfill God's will for his chosen people, the Israelites.

So according to Jiang, they have encouraged and cajoled the U.S.

into entering the war, but ultimately, once Iran is sufficiently weakened, they want the U.S.

to be forced to retreat due to domestic political pressure, something that seems pretty likely to happen if ground troops are used.