Donald Trump won the ticket, opposing the wars in the mediate East. His instinct is inactive commendable, but it is curious why he failed to enter into a atomic agreement with Tehran, given that the Iranians agreed not to produce atomic weapons.
The administration has sought a ban on Tehran's enrichment of uranium, although it is an Iranian red line and will proceed to apply. Any further military threats to Iran's atomic programme will only encourage Iran to search further atomic weapons. The best we can hope for is surveillance.
A clever rhetorical play can be seen in discussions about whether the US will engage militarily with Iran. Before the current attacks, the United States seemingly told Israel that they would not join the attack in any offensive capacity, although it seemed likely that they would defend him against Iran's retaliation and shortly after the Israeli attacks they promised to do so. It's clever, but it's pointless. The discrimination to be made at this phase is not whether the US wants to attack Iran or not; It's about whether the U.S. will be drawn into war no substance what.. all salty writer should ask the administration whether and why the United States should defend Israel against Iran's retaliation, especially given that Israel, according to Trump himself before the attack, has led to a "ruin" of negotiations between Iran and the US (and so, all negotiations at this point are ruined. It's guaranteed.)
The Iranians saw what happened to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya (another war that ruined the region and unleashed the exile crisis in Europe, which was opposed by your humble correspondent) and saw what did not happen to the Kim dynasty in North Korea. The lesson is harsh. The deterrence is hard to achieve, but erstwhile achieved, it remains in its place. Meanwhile, the Iranians consolidated their ballistic rocket program, and Tehran now has a immense amount of conventional weapons in stock that can overwhelm Israel. The Israelis, for their part, do not have a long-term, permanent capacity to bomb Iran without American support. Iran has a immense depth of land (natural boundaries and strengthening of the land), making any invasion expensive. This march towards war is akin to Ukraine in the sense that it can halt erstwhile Washington has the courage to say that from now on anyone who opposes American intentions or strategies is on his own.
The fact that this is simply a sneaky way to drag the US into another conflict in the mediate East is apparent to anyone who has an IQ above area temperature. And it is simply a region that remains completely peripheral to American interests, especially compared to, say, Asia, Latin America and even Europe. The U.S. war with Iran faces a cross-party opposition of both right-wing and left-wing congressmen. People hatred that idea.
Moreover, the Israeli attack was not "preemptive", as the media claimed. The preemptive strike is designed to halt an anticipated attack that has not yet occurred. Even according to Israel's claims, this is simply a run of decapitation and prevention – Iran's top leaders are on target. The Israelis, of course, do not want war to be exhausted for apparent reasons. Throughout his history, Israel avoided long conflicts and advocated shorter wars. The question is whether Israel will get into a long, devastating conflict this time and whether the US will gotta get involved. The envisaged dimension of the conflict is not insignificant, but alternatively the starting point of the plan. If the analysis assumes the weakness of the Iranian regime, long-term conflict will not be needed, the government will fall. Then it will be a substance of calming the divergent factions in the country. But if the government is stable, the Iranians will unite around the flag, which will lead to a war of exhaustion in which the Iranian labour force eclipses Israel.
The last time the Iranians were amazed by the first strike, it was in the 1980s, and the perpetrator was Iraq Saddam Hussein. This yet led to an eight-year war. Hussein and his government have long gone. 1 can only hope that common sense will prevail this time – and, more importantly, for the United States, that we will have the wisdom to stay distant from it.
Sumantra Maitra
Photo X profile of Israel's embassy in Poland (effects of the Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel)
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