All these for money & power. Religion is louder & an easier line to draw, but it's all money & power.
Benyamin clinging onto power at mercy of extemist/populist ministers. Sunni & Shia who don't normally see eye-to-eye working together. Disrupt trade $$ at Red Sea = bombs away.
In a conference with attendees average age 50+, boomers talking about automation and digitisation, quoting James Bond and a McKinsey survey on productivity...
Niceness is not a weakness. Strictness is not undesirable.
One can always be good-natured, and always be firm but fair esp when making the difficult decisions/when it hits the fan.
Inflating USD to devalue every other currency. Vetoing a ceasefire. Imposing 'rights' on others while doing the exact opposite.
So many reasons to thrash on the USA.