One might use the title, ‘Power blocs at Play”  for a discussion of the controlled attrition and apocalyptic threats in the  Middle East. And indeed there are three main power blocs, — Oceania, Europe, and  Eurasia – that generate and direct the friction.
Two-Pronged Dialectic in the Middle East Forges Global State
 Two-Pronged Dialectic in the Middle East Forges Global State
by Professor Eugene  Narrett