Imagine if someone summarised twentieth-century European history with a statement that "Europeans don't care about other Europeans and they all loathe the Jews", and was then hailed for their analytical insight and given a book contract.
In the case of the proven charlatan and fabricator Douglas Murray, this actually happened.
Clausewitz talks about this - war is an existential struggle to the death and you should never assume your opponent is going to behave in a restrained manner. For every government that caves under military pressure, another one decides to fight to the bitter end.
AND THERE IT IS: Pentagon is cannibalizing THAAD parts from South Korea and Patriot interceptors from the Indo-Pacific
It only took one week to dramatically lower US defense capabilities in Asia
For 19 years Iran had a latent nuclear deterrent, an unstated but implied bluff that if the U.S. and/or Israel attacked, then they might go ahead and make a nuke. Israel and the U.S. called their bluff last June, setting them back for years, surely, but also incentivizing the regime to go ahead and try to get at least a couple gun-type a-bombs together as fast as they can.
The last Ayatollah said WMD were haram. He's dead now.