Ret. U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor on Türkiye: The two powers that are going to emerge from this war and will dominate the Middle East for decades to come, maybe longer. One is Iran. There's no question about that. And the other is Türkiye. I tried to tell them on more than one occasion, you're barking up the wrong tree. Your existential threat is not Iran. You've got a real problem further north and to the east, and that's called the Turks. This is a resolutely martial people. People of great courage who are innately inclined to fight. These are natural soldiers. You do not want to go war with Turks. In Iran, you're dealing with someone who is rational. They will coexist with you. You can talk to them and do business. But if you provoke the Turks, it's a fight to the finish. If you don't think they're ready to go, you're making a very, very serious mistake. Who dominated the Arabian Peninsula, who dominated the Levant, who dominated all the way to Egypt and into North Africa for centuries? We know who.