The punishing Israeli response to the Hamas and Hezbollah attacks of October 7 and 8 has devastated Gaza and Lebanon, decimated Hamas and Hezbollah, contributed to the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, and dealt the most serious blow to Iran’s axis of influence in many decades.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States is already reshaping geopolitics in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and it is having a significant and unpredictable effect on the Middle East as well. These two dynamics often overlap in their interests and actions; but in some cases, they also diverge.
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