Agree.
What might happen, and there are already slight signs, is China will send in troops with the understanding of regional security.
They’ll remove the supreme leader and have him taken away under a custody agreement and exiled.
China, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and a few others, India, are consumers of Iranian energy.
If China sends in peacekeeping troops, to protect their interests, then what does Israel do?
Russia, although it has a security agreement with Iran presently, is busy elsewhere. Their response in this conflict would be purely military if at all. But, they have that agreement.
So, they have already asked China to cover for them no doubt.
Aside from that, Russia is about to make a whole lot of money out of this debacle.
“If China sends in peacekeeping troops, to protect their interests, then what does Israel do?”
That’s a nightmare waiting to happen. I don’t think the Chinese are that crazy.