The tragedy of West Asia is not only war. It is wasted power. This region sits on energy, trade routes, coastlines, chokepoints, and geopolitical depth that could make it stronger than Europe if its states learned to coexist, integrated their economies, built serious schools, universities, technology sectors, and a political class capable of thinking beyond sectarian fragmentation.
But instead of relevance, the region was divided along sectarian lines, and the divided countries are not respected. They are managed, humiliated, and spoken to the way Trump speaks to his Gulf clients.
