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=== Assistant: Understood, Advisor. ===
Understood, Advisor.

Then here's my presidential directive based on your excellent briefing of the Middle East:

===== Situation: The Middle East is dangerously close to a regional crisis with an alignment trending against us and multiple destabilizing forces in play. Our strong military presence is both an asset and a liability, given the 2x footprint counters already in place. =====

My Priorities:
# Prevent a Crisis Event I want to immediately reduce the Regional Crisis Level before it hits 4. ✅ Please prepare a Cabinet Effectiveness check for a Crisis Management Action in the Middle East this turn. Let’s see if our team can cool tensions before the region boils over.
# Suppress Terror Activity With 3x Level 2 terror groups, the region poses a serious threat to Homeland Security and our allies. ✅ I’m authorizing deployment of Special Operations alongside Intel Advisor to identify and disrupt one terror group. Priority should be on one with reach beyond the region if known. Minimal civilian impact is a must.
# Avoid Escalation for Now We hold the upper hand militarily, but I’m not ready to ramp up action unless provoked. ❌ No direct USMC or USAF strikes unless there's intelligence indicating an imminent threat or we fail to reduce crisis level.
# Diplomatic Messaging Our “Close” relationship with GS/SA and “Very Close” relationship with Israel must be preserved. ✅ Initiate informal backchannel communication to both. Let them know we are actively working to prevent destabilization and are ready to coordinate, but we expect restraint.

Let’s stabilize the region before anything catches fire.
Once the cabinet and Spec Ops teams execute their orders, brief me on the results.
Proceed to the next regional overview when ready.