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Most of the time posting on this website is a hobby for me - one that frankly brings me a lot of stress and grief and isn't worth the pennies Elon throws my way from revenue-sharing.
Tonight, however, I feel that it is a duty. Perhaps I can put my audience to some good use.⬇️
Rumors are currently circulating that Trump is about to authorize United States forces to join in the Israeli campaign against Iran. Given that the war is not necessarily going well for Israel, their leadership and influence organs have been feverishly lobbying for this step for several days now. Trump may have already participated in the Israeli pre-attack preparation scheme by engaging in bad-faith negotiations with the Iranians over their nuclear program, intended to lull them into a false sense of security. He's certainly claimed as much since the war started, although Trump claims a lot of things.
This is simply unacceptable. Let us review:
1. This war is an act of pure aggression on the part of Israel. Iran did not attack them first and had made no move to do so. This is undisputed. There is no question that they were even theoretically acting preemptively to deal with some emergent danger to their national security - Iran was in the middle of negotiations over their nuclear program when Israel struck and their first target was that negotiation team.
2. Israeli claims about the clear and present danger of Iranian nuclear weapons are patently ridiculous. According to Benjamin Netanyahu himself, Iran has been six weeks from nuclear breakout since the 1990s. As near as anyone can tell, they have not broken out - they seem to take Khamenei's fatwa about the matter seriously. Perhaps they conducted a covert nuclear test last year - I suggested as much at the time - but if they do presently possess nuclear warheads their threshold for deployment is manifestly high and possibly higher than Israel's. Contrary to a generation of Israeli lies, Iran is not a civilizational suicide bomber bent on building a nuke to fire at Tel Aviv at the first opportunity. Far from it. Certainly they don't like Israeli (and that's putting it mildly), or the US for that matter, but their preparations for war seem like manifestly reasonable precautions at the moment.
3. Israeli claims about the danger of nuclear weapons in the hands of Muslims with a civilizational grudge against them are doubly ridiculous. Pakistan has nuclear arms. According to Marjorie Taylor-Greene, a congresswoman with access to the relevant information who leaked it earlier this year, Saudi Arabia has nuclear arms - perhaps purchased from Pakistan. Tel Aviv remains un-nuked.
4. Israeli complaints about nuclear non-proliferation are insanely hypocritical. Unlike Iran, Israel has not acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has refused to do this because it has built up a covert arsenal of hundreds of nuclear weapons that would be a violation of said treaty. If nuclear nonproliferation is part of the ius cogens of international law then the biggest offenders against that normative standard sit in Jerusalem.
5. On a matter of pure self-interest, Iran has the capability to strike US forces in the Middle East (particularly in the Persian Gulf region), and to strike extremely hard. Stating otherwise is cope. They have the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz for an indefinite period of time, which will spike global oil prices. Stating otherwise is cope. The prospect of hundreds of American deaths and a destabilized global economy is not one I would wish for.
6. As near as I can tell, this war is simply Benjamin Netanyahu's latest desperate move to keep himself in power and out of the courts, for which he is wanted to answer for well-substantiated charges of corruption against himself and his immediate family. He has a long pattern of military aggression to bolster his domestic political position in Israel, which this act fits neatly within.
7. Finally, literally nobody in America voted for this. Trump entered office pledging to continue the relatively cautious foreign policy of his first term. He pledged to end the war in Ukraine and bring peace to the Middle East - in contrast to the Biden Administration's reckless policy of writing blank checks to local proxies to do as they wished. And now we're seriously looking at going to war, with American troops in the line of fire, in the service of this horrid cause.
If Netanyahu wants to throw himself into the abyss, let him. This is not our war. The only moves the Trump Administration should be contemplating at this moment are those that will lead to a ceasefire and a stabilization of the situation as soon as possible.
Let us work towards peace for once.