It's just the same "divide and conquer" bullshit as the domestic uniparty, the entirety of the middle east with all its various tribes is in opposition to the west, but unlike the domestic uniparty the middle east tribes also fight each other for real in addition to all of them being in opposition to the west, they just fall along a spectrum ranging from wanting to conquer and subjugate the west to wanting to completely annihilate the west, this has been going on for thousands of years and at this point it's like watching multiple assassins fight each other to the death with the idea that the winner can then take our heads for the bounty, meanwhile we got people cheering and booing for different assassins while they fight it out