Nadhim Koteich, Lebanese-Emirati political analyst and general manager of Sky News Arabia, helps me understand the contrast between these two networks struggling to shape the Middle East. However, the resistance network is “organized by Iran, Islamists, and jihadists in a process they call 'battlefield unity.' He noted that the network “aims to bridge militias, nativists, religious sects and sectarian leaders” and is an anti-rebel network that can simultaneously put pressure on Israel in Gaza, the West Bank and the West Bank. He said they were creating an anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Western axis. You can see not only the Lebanese border, but also the Red Sea, Syria, Iraq, and the United States of Saudi Arabia in all directions.
In stark contrast, Koteich argues that inclusion initiatives focus on “interweaving” global and regional markets rather than the front lines, business conferences, press, elites, hedge funds, high-tech incubators, and major trade routes. Said the network is standing. He added: “We are creating a web of economic and technological interdependence that has the potential to transcend traditional boundaries, redefine power structures and create new paradigms of regional stability.”
So today, while the United States is indirectly undermining Russia's capabilities through proxy Ukraine, the situation is different in the Middle East. There, Iran is comfortably at rest, and through Tehran's proxies Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Shi'ite militias in Syria and Iraq, it indirectly interacts with Israel, the United States, and sometimes Saudi Arabia. We are actually fighting a war.
While Iran reaps all the benefits and pays virtually no cost for the work of its proxies, the United States, Israel, and their tacit Arab allies are able to protect Iran without getting into a hot war. The government has not yet revealed its intention or method to put pressure back on the government. Everyone wants to avoid it.