It looks to me like Obola and the Witch are doing their level best to blunder us into a totally preventable WW III, much as WW I was blundered into. If you really want to be worried, just read Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August to see how WW I got started and how this Syria situation is edging into that one.
Yes, we have squandered much of our military on the Mideast, since the Bush administration , many years and much money. Enter absurdity, Obama, drafting women and promoting homosexuals instead of spending on research and engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPu_RL7Ncao
Other nations have advanced while we tread water.
You do know that all the monarchs were relatives, right?
Just think of WWI as a family feud using toy soldiers—oops, those were real human beings...