US-Israel Combine’s grand strategic design for a future Greater Middle East Region (GMER) could entail establishing total control over all its varied geopolitical, geostrategic, and geoeconomic dimensions and manifestations. To that end, it would need to achieve the following: one, satiating Israel’s abiding insecurities through the elimination of all real, potential, imminent, conjured up, and/or imaginary threats to it from within and beyond the GMER. Two, neutralising Iran, the only surviving ostensibly existential threat, by not allowing it to become a nuclear weapon state or retain its ballistic missile and drone/UCAV capacities. Three, compelling the Gulf Arab states to submit meekly to the evolving strategic environment, sign the Abraham Accords, and become no more than mere obedient sources of investment, capital, and fossil fuels for the US-led West and the world. Four, establishing Israel’s unchallenged, unambiguous hegemony, freedom of action, and military superiority in the region. Five, ensuring that Israel is the only nuclear-missile power in the region. The balance of power would thus remain permanently skewed in its favour.

Such an overwhelming strategic environment would engender crucial ramifications as well. One, enable the US-Israel Combine to potentially establish its absolute oversight of the geopolitics of the region, assert the total control of its economy, determine the pace and destinations of fossil fuels’ exports, and manage all trade routes and Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC) within it—including the inescapable Hormuz Straits. Two, the US-Israel Combine could then........

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