Ben Worden

Made in the UK 🇬🇧. Exported to Canada 🇨🇦.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The arguments about Iran are so polarised that no one wants to admit that several things are true at once:

You'd be a fool not to have serious reservations about the idea of a regime change war, especially in the Middle East.

You'd also be a fool to allow terrorist-funding lunatics to develop nuclear weapons.

Neither the people condemning these strikes, nor the people cheering them on know how this is going to work out.

So far, Trump Administration interventions have been extraordinarily successful in achieving valid objectives within a highly limited scope.

The strikes on Iran during the 12 day war achieved destruction of several nuclear facilities.

The Venezuela operation decapitated the hostile regime and replaced Maduro with a non-hostile leader.

Both also achieved significant "don't fuck with us" deterrence globally.

However, it is not remotely clear at this moment in time whether something similar can be achieved in Iran.

I understand and fully empathise with the people who think regime change is not going to work in Iran and you'll end up with the same as what you had or worse.

And I understand just as much the people who celebrate an evil dictator being killed and Iran's nuclear and military assets being degraded further.

The thing we do not know, and the thing that will determine whether this has all been worth it, is what the future leadership of Iran will look like. This seems to me to be the biggest risk Donald Trump has taken at any time in his first or second term. If it pays off, the reward both domestically and globally will be huge. If it doesn't and things go south, it could derail his Presidency and define his legacy like Iraq did for Blair and Bush.

Very few people have any idea which of these scenarios is more likely and one thing is for sure: none of them are talking about it on social media because they're all sitting in command bunkers, not on X.

I hope the people of Iran are released from living under tyranny. I hope the peoples of the Middle East can live in peace.
I hope the takeaway for any would-be terrorist is the realisation that October 7 might not have been such a good idea.
I hope that with the Middle East stabilised, the US can turn its attentions to the theatres that really matters to the security of the West: Russia and China.

Whether any of that happens remains to be seen and it seems the hardest thing for anyone to do is to not express an opinion before the smoke has cleared.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@AjaTheEmpress All I saw was love and unity on Saturday. Khan needs to stop peddling fear.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@mastershah313 @TRobinsonNewEra Brave words for a keyboard warrior, jog on mate

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@MarkJCarney Oh, look, more bureaucracy. I wonder how much this “new team” will cost the Canadian tax payer

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@MarkJCarney Canadians, do not be deceived. The tax has simply been ‘paused’ the PM has no power to strike down laws without a vote in Parliament.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@theJagmeetSingh You’ll do what you’ve always done. Pay lip service and produce zero results. Jog on.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@theJagmeetSingh You don’t even have the backbone that is required to stand up to Trudeau, shut up.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@MarcNixon24 I don’t think anyone, anywhere, takes what Jagmeet says seriously. The guy just says whatever sounds good in the moment.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@cafreeland You should never have been allowed to be Finance Minister, pipe down.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@JustinTrudeau Resign as PM already, mong

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@wrightmary123 This has to be satire lol

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@JustinTrudeau Have some integrity and resign as PM already.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@theJagmeetSingh You should resign too, you’re just as bad as Trudeau

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@joe_warmington @PierrePoilievre I can’t wait until we can have an election and rid Canada of Trudeau’s stupidity

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@JustinTrudeau Resign

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@JustinTrudeau Resign, no one wants you as PM anymore.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@JustinTrudeau If climate change is such a serious issue. Why doesn’t the carbon tax go into climate change initiatives that fight climate change?

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@theJagmeetSingh Virtue signalling Singh, back at it again

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@SamanthaTaghoy @MarkSteynOnline Well done for speaking the truth, Samantha. All the best to you.

[Ben Worden @BenWorden]

@ScoopUrban What a wonderful young man