@davidaugust While I have some respect for the Catholic religion, who accept evolution as fact; the Arab/Persian rift is far wider than the narrow bandwidth The Strait of Hormuz, chokepoints-to as an obvious, eventual cataclysm.
It further illustrates the arrogance of an unnecessarily powerful interloper, like The US, in churning powerful oppression like that region/value space. This, of course, puts the body of mostly middle-Americans at increasing risk, along with multiplying downsides to footing destabilizing forms of governance, like Capitalism, where too much is never too much (Communism: inverse proportion).
And while the answer should be obvious in promoting a minimal middle, third-party Democratic Socialst movement, such as Mandani has made more prominent; the deeply entrenched stranglehold that the Democrat/Republican duopoly, in line with fossil fuels and TechBros, is too much to overcome - especially when one considers the correlating factors of forced ultra-processed foods, further dumbing-down of the masses by failing public education, etc..
This leaves the ultimate enemy - ignorance - in full control of the inevitable collapse of another Rome. #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries, anybody?..