China Brings Iran & Saudi Arabia Together As King Salman Invites Raisi To Riyadh

They invited Kashoggi to their embassy too, BTW.

An inconvenient peace

This situation is incredibly dangerous. Someone crafting an Islamic "superpower" from Pakistan through Morocco, with nuclear weapons, potentially over a billion people (if they can include Indonesia), at least superficially non-hostile towards India and controlled by China would flip the global balance of power against the United States perhaps decidedly.

China has always played a long game in Asia. They've been playing a long one in Africa and, to a lesser degree, Central and South America. Our politicians have sold their souls to them. This is the harvest.

I remember this one, this is a rerun.

So, basically, a new Muslim Empire forms and goes to war with Israel and India and maybe even Greece cause why not? They have massive numbers but terrible leadership and take heavy losses without accomplishing their goals, spending much more effort fighting internal dissidents than their external enemies. Eventually, the founding prophet unexpectedly dies, there’s a succession crisis, the empire splits down the middle along sunni/shia lines, then splinters again on the fringes due to ethnic tensions, and the whole thing devolves into a sectarian bloodbath all without ever permanently conquering pr defeating a single non-Muslim majority country.

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Someone crafting an Islamic "superpower" from Pakistan through Morocco, with nuclear weapons, potentially over a billion people (if they can include Indonesia), at least superficially non-hostile towards India and controlled by China would flip the global balance of power against the United States perhaps decidedly.

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Too many egos, racial, cultural, and religious differences for any type of a united front.

But the world is tired of U.S. hegemony, and there is definitely a desire for change in the balance of power.

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Someone crafting an Islamic "superpower" from Pakistan through Morocco

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If there were only 2 Muslims left on earth, they'd each accuse the other of apostasy and fight to the death. They're not going to create an Islamic super state controlled by China.