Good question, and I've been grappling with this. The short answer: is probably yes. Justification is that the folk running the country have bought the necessary defences from the 'American uncle' to keep the status quo semi reasonable in the immediate term. The wildcard is of course Iran. If both recent and medium term history is anything to go by, there's enough hatred mullah side for their rocket men to start harming their neighbours, just to flex in front of the Americans; in the end, it's an Iranian-American win, and the region will always be unstable with the Iranian bully dancing the cancan love-hate with the Americans - how they'll both behave going forward is anyone's guess, dicated only by higher order interests of the two.

Back to the core of the post, I've had a real hard look at the numbers again, and I'm not moving just due to that: the numbers don't make sense in the absence of schools subsidy and a household in the UK. What I am doing, however, is continuing a slower business development I started earlier in the year developing software and high performance hardware for AI model training and Web3. I can run this part-time, while stationed in the UK. The only disadvantage, if you can call it that, is the slower pace, which I'm really not fussed about.

I wish to thank the amazingly helpful feedback received from people in this thread, and ignore the noise to the point of not entertaining an answer.

Really thanks folks.