As we know it.

 Okay. 

Let's break it down for a moment. 

The commonality amongst both the Iran situation and the Palestinian Situation. 

Pardon the language, but it is apt.

Israel trying to push the Palestinian people out of the area and the U.S. swinging dick. 

Which.  
Is not because land is scare. 
But sustainable land is scarce.  
Fishing regions, farmable regions, herdable regions. 
You need all three. 
And viable routs to remove excesses and bring in scarcities. 
Imports and Exports

And since we do live in 2026 A.D. and not 2026 B.C. it might be time to start writing a new play book. 
I mean.
Depending on your calendar this is supposed to be the end of Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2. 
Crazy I know, it's almost like they're numbered that way. 

My solution isn't a single state or a two state solution. 
But rather a counseling situation. 

So.  
Take the E.U. model of trade, travel, and support and overlay that on the Mediterranean region. 
Like a regional government.  

Will there be some overlap.  
Yes. 
But it would be a separate entity from N.A.T.O making Moscow happy. 
Would have representatives from multiple regions with distinctly different views on governance but all agree that freely flowing food, water, and travel in and out of the region is a goal. 
I don't think the U.N. was the wrong idea.   

I think it was just too big of an idea.

Too many pots on the stove and too many cooks trying to spice things their way. 
 
So.  
Base regional responsibilities...
Oof, can't not with the branding it seems.
...on geographical isolations and limitations. 
Not arbitrary lines in the sand.  
Ask anyone who lives near a desert what a line in the sand means after the seasons have changed. 

Keep the U.N.  largely as is and utilize it as the trade floor for the world stock exchange. But instead of focusing on speculative finances and made up currencies they deal in commodities only. 
Food, Fuel, Finished products. 
To support the creation of smaller regional infrastructure management comities.

The heaviest burden on any governing body is the building and management of infrastructure.
Energy, Agriculture, Emergency Services. 
So. 
Alleviate this burden for the smallest, mass produce for the largest, and focus on rehabilitation over reconstruction whenever possible. 
Rehabilitation takes much longer that reconstruction. 
But.
If the waters do rise?
Imagine saving Venice instead of watching it sink. 
Imagine turning New York, New Orleans, and all the other New cities on coasts destined for submersion and planning for it.  
Planning to live, or at least work and farm, underwater. 
I mean, we want to go to space right? 
My vote?
Turn New Orleans into Atlantis now.  So the next time the Levies break it's because we didn't need them anymore.

 
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I mean, that's my plan.  
I think I even have a map I did back during Katrina on my days off. 
Something to focus on since being at work meant trying to get a very panicked, angry, and traumatized public from point A to point B. without freaking anyone out.
So I just pretended I had all the money in the world and asked myself what I would do with it. 
And that's what I'd do with it. 
Underwater development and planning, update regional infrastructure starting with the smallest towns abandoned factory neighborhoods, rebuild them to support new industries and to act as emergency over flow for regions hit by a disaster. 

"Oh no, I'm so sorry your trailer was lost in the storm."
"It's okay, I got to stay in Old Detroit and washed dishes at a dinner theater while things were rebuilt." 

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I mean...I think I still have my physical files from that far back, but yeesh, that's been a minute.
That design might have been shredded with the tax paperwork.  But, man, to re-do a project like that with modern mapping instead of what I was able to find on the limited internet of the day and copy from my rand mc-Neily. 
 
Oh man...giving away my library....my collection of maps probably hurt the worst. 
Curated and updated annually. 
But, now we have gps in our pockets so I don't need a whole backpack just for maps and phone books. Smaller towns phone books were usually only the size of a comic book and having emergency numbers and knowing if there was a grocery store or mechanic helped plan stops.  
I'd always rather get out and stretch where the work shop is because if there's an issue I've only gotta push the car a few feet instead of a few miles. 
Slow roads over highways any time I can. 
More fun to drive, safer for the cargo, and an extra pair of eyes where there usually isn't a pair. 
I can't be everywhere, but I can be somewhere.

Like doctors without boarders but for things like running water and farming rights for land, sea, and air. 
We can't overhunt herd animals otherwise we'll end up in situations like the American dust bowl of the 1930's or the starvation of the Savannah in the 1980s.  But we also need to feed the people.  
So. 
2 birds, 1 stone. 
Hunting enthusiasts can get...
here's that language again.
...get their rocks off. 
 People are fed, large scale herds can do what they do for the eco systems, the meat produced is ethically sourced, and it designates and protects existing natural habitats for food production without over developing the land and destroying the natural eco systems.  

I know.
I Know. 
I'm a genius. 
Solving the worlds problems one simple solution at a time. 
Yes.  
I am white jesus. 

"Uh...sir...what are you going to do when they find out you're just copying the way it was being done before the colonists showed up, but with star trek stuff?"
"Shhh....smile for the cameras and keep up the soft shoe until we get this all done." 
"The....the uh...mic is hot...they heard all of that."
"Aw fuck."
 "Jigs up!"
" Cheese it!"
 "Mystery Inc is on the Case!"
"Good one!"
"Let's go!"