From the River to the South China Sea

Ethnic cleansing is all very well provided that it's done by the nice people; but even the most sensible and moderate of observers would be hard put to deny that it can still cause a bit of inconvenience here and there. Despite the continuing good health of the arms trade, concerns had begun to emerge that the current Israeli rampage might adversely affect the market in fossil fuels; fortunately, the Netanyahoo has now proffered his word as a gentleman and a humanitarian that the Righteous State has no plans to target petroleum as well as people. Nevertheless, oil prices continue to fall thanks to electric vehicles and an insidious reduction in demand from the Heathen Chinee, so that "in the absence of a major disruption" there will be a surplus on the market next year. Happily for the fossil fuel profiteers, there is as yet little indication that the Righteous State will be satisfied with a mere final solution to the Arab and Persian Untermenschen, and still less sign that it will so far compromise its sacred right of self-defence as to allow its borders to terminate anywhere west of Tibet.