[fortzi]

> ... prolonged Gulf conflict that at this point seems to serve no point whatsoever for anyone except perhaps Israel.

Dominating most of global oil and gas traffic is indeed very much a point that the US is trying to serve, albeit with arguable success. The same reasoning explains other crazy adventures like Venezuela and Greenland, as well as other more diplomatic endeavors in Panama, Gibraltar and the strait of Malaka.

The notion that the mighty US is going through all this for the sake of another country is bonkers.