“…the moment when America pulls back from the region—in the sense that it finally relinquishes its hegemony there. For the first time since the great powers dismembered the Ottoman empire a century ago, the Middle East’s overarching order will no longer be imposed from afar. Will that herald an orgy of score-settling and violence, or a new beginning?”

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/24/when-america-walks-away