Is the Middle East a Buffer State?

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The state of the middle east at the moment is not very well understood. Jordan has been an anchor state round that part of the Middle East, but it can be pulled up and removed. What jordan is worried about very much right now is jerryd Cushner's peace plant. And if trump sort of assents to his reagily annexation, they're tacitly or a real or formal war with Palestine.

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