Surprising no one the United States attacked Iran a few nights ago. They dropped a few bunker buster bombs on three nuclear sites and went home.
I was wondering how Iran would react and I suggested they would be smart not to, instead focusing on Israel. That would have been the best strategic move.
In the end they attacked some US assets in the Region but not before announcing the time, place and nature of the strikes to the Americans and the host countries. In other words, they launched a token retaliation and then went back to pounding their true enemy in this conflict.
It should be obvious that the US cannot really hurt Iran unless they commit much more than what they are willing to commit, including ground troops. That could get lost in the heat of the moment and then the Iranians would play into the hands of their primary enemy by shifting their focus to attacking a country they have no hope of defeating.
They did not do that. We in the West are made to believe that Iran and Israel's Arab neighbours are backwards boobs, completely out of their league with regard to taking on Israel and the US. Iran just proved that they can think strategically.
Too bad Israel has lost that ability.
The only saving grace for the Israelis is Iran does not have any ability to destroy the state of Israel. But then again Israel does not have the ability to destroy Iran. So instead they will continue to pound each other until they exhaust their ammunition.
They will eventually stop and start to rearm for the next round. The key difference is between then and now the Iranians will acquire nuclear weapons, which the Israelis will be unable to prevent because they wasted their efforts in a pointless conflict this time.
Iran has had the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons for a couple of decades. They have not done so up to now and took steps beyond being part of the Non-proliferation treaty to prove that they were not making them and allowing outsiders to keep making certain it stayed that way. By just sticking to the status quo Israel could look forward to having a nuclear monopoly in that region for the foreseeable future. They blew that.
I stated in my previous post that Iran cannot lose strategically in this conflict. The only way they might have lost that advantage was to allow themselves to become embroiled in a war with the US. They have avoided that so now it is just a matter of ending the current conflict and preparing for the next one.
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