Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose. “The current belief is flawed. What we need is a rational, controlled escalation from Western powers in response to Iranian aggression, not more of the sickening appeasement, delusion, and cowardice we’ve seen in recent days. The regime must be held accountable for its monstrous warmongering, not pacified by Western leaders who mistake weakness for virtue.
If Joe Biden were a serious president, he would declare that the mullahs in Tehran have crossed a red line and are now an existential threat to civilized nations. He would announce that enough is enough; no country can launch hundreds of drones and missiles at its neighbors without consequences, and no government can continue to fund terrorism, rape, torture, and murder on an industrial scale. He would recognize the need to deter other rogue states through a show of strength.
He would insist that the Iranian regime be treated as the global pariah it has become, that all its proxies be dismantled, and, most importantly, that it never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. He would build a coalition, including as many of Iran’s Arab neighbors as possible. He would impose severe sanctions and support Israel in dealing with Hamas and hitting Hezbollah. Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose
If all else fails, he would use American military power to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations, similar to Israel’s actions against Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 and the Al-Kibar site in Syria in 2007. He would not invade Iran or impose regime change; that would be up to the Iranian people. But he would contain and neutralize one of the key players in the axis of evil, making the world a safer place.
Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose. In reality, like David Cameron, Biden clings to a policy of appeasement toward Iran and its proxies, despite the failure of this strategy in the 1930s and its likely failure again in the 2020s. This is not even a tactic to buy time while a concrete plan is developed; our politicians are hoping that today’s crisis will somehow resolve itself.
It won’t. The West’s refusal to face reality increases the likelihood that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons and potentially use them against Israel, itself a nuclear power, with the aim of triggering a millenarian moment. The world is heading toward a third world war involving Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea: the Islamic Republic is the weakest link, the easiest to deal with today if we had the sense to act.
Instead, the Iron Dome allows the West to ignore Iran’s endless attempts at war crimes. If an Iran-funded missile aimed at Israeli civilians is intercepted and no one is killed, we can pretend it never happened. If Israel retaliates against rocket launchers and kills Hamas fighters, it is accused of a ‘disproportionate response,’ demonized as the real aggressor, making it even easier for the West to ignore Iranian aggression. Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose. It’s a surreal situation where actions and intentions are irrelevant.
This madness has reached new heights this week: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel, an act that would normally be considered a historic act of war. Yet because 99% were intercepted, the official line is that the attack must have been merely ‘performative’ and can be forgotten. Tehran warned various countries in advance of its intentions, but notifying someone before attempting to murder them is not a defense.
Many commentators suggest that Iran’s act of war was mere ‘retaliation’ and that Israel initiated the conflict by bombing a building near Iran’s Syrian consulate, allegedly violating international rules. The truth is that those killed were top figures in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an organization rightly sanctioned as a terrorist group by the US but, scandalously, not by the UK, and no diplomats were harmed.
In any case, Iran has been at war with Israel for years. The real escalation occurred on October 7. Far from respecting diplomatic norms, Iran and Hezbollah were behind the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina in the 1990s, as confirmed by a court this week. Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose. Yet Westerners, who should know better, find it convenient to believe Iran’s false narrative.
They advise Israel to turn the other cheek, to let the matter rest, to ‘think with their heads as well as their hearts,’ as Lord Cameron put it, or to ‘take the win,’ as Biden phrased it. Since when is being attacked with ballistic missiles, something that has never happened to any Western country, considered a ‘win’?
Israel will be criticized for ‘escalating’ when it responds. There will be more victim-blaming, blatant double standards, rewriting of history, special rules that apply only to Israel, and further normalization of extreme behavior toward the only Jewish state, all to avoid taking action against Iran.
Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose
Biden’s ‘strategy’ has been to appease Tehran since he took office. He released billions of dollars in ransom payments, renewed a sanctions waiver allowing Iran access to a $10 billion fund from selling electricity to Iraq, and allowed Iran’s oil output to reach a five-and-a-half-year high by failing to enforce sanctions properly and permitting sales to China. There is no deterrence left: Iran can do whatever it wants and can even count on Biden to pressure Israel not to retaliate. Iran is about to start a nuclear world war and the West is determined to lose
America lacks a meaningful long-term plan to contain Tehran, destroy Hamas, the Houthis, or Hezbollah, or to deradicalize the Palestinian territories to ensure that a new, Israel-recognizing leadership emerges, paving the way for a viable two-state solution. It’s burying its head in the sand.”
America has just reminded us there is only one world superpower