Or will it really just last forever?
Donald Trump and Israel seem to be happy with this as an outcome. Israel needs america to fight the war on its behalf though.
I too was thinking about 1984 a lot since the iran conflict. Many read 1984 and ask "so when will it happen in our future?" as if it's a certainty rather than a possibility.
I would conjecture that we'll look back on the USA-israel hegemony (194? - 2026) as being our own little Oceania/Orwellian-era. I think the war with iran will be what quickly and ultimately collapses this status quo, which was already receding. We should probably be thankful that living under it wasn't as hellish as the book [1984] describes.
Though you can, honestly, take any part of that book and find events across the gloval american empire which plqyed-out exactly the same as in the book; the torture ( or, 'advanced interrogation') the thought-crimes, the mass-surveillance and the establishment of controlled opposition groups.
I know. And yet all of that lines up with the modern "regime" we live in