From his Hasan appearance, it seems like Ian may actually be too dumb and/or too much of a pussy to give even Frogan-level retard takes on the middle east.
You know, I like to turn over people's psychology in my head sometimes, and Ian has fascinated me for a while. Is he really this retarded? Does he have a humiliation fetish? Is he ACTUALLY a huge cuck and enjoys being Anisa's bitch while she fucks everyone else, but doesn't want to "ruin the magic" by admitting it? Did Anisa and his therapist conspire to lobotomize him with SSRIs? (Because even normal SSRI intake doesn't destroy a man like this, so it may be SSRIs in combination with "anti-anxiety" medication. All this shit shrinks your soul, for lack of a better way of saying it.) Regardless, one thing I have figured out is that (and I'm not sure if it's the SSRIs, fetish, actual lack of personality, complete lack of ego, or a combination of those and other factors) he gets his opinions, personality, and actions from the people around him.
There is no Ian. Not anymore. There is only, memes aside, Anisa's husband. And that's why, no matter how bad it gets for him, he will never change course. Never stand up for himself, never leave her. He is an empty vessal that those around him pour into. The only emotion he seems to actually posses is the desire to climb the social ladder and "do well", but even that may only be Anisa screaming at him for not making enough money or not having powerful enough friends.
There is an idea of Ian, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real him, only an entity, something illusory. And though he can hide his buck-broken gaze and you can watch his video and hear his tone conveying emotion, his words conveying ideas, and maybe you can even feel sympathy for someone who was once alive, he simply is not there.