One of my oldest friends is Persian and he moved to Europe when the Shah fell in 1979. He despises ayatollahs but the idea of US strikes is scarier. I believe Iranians want a regime change but fear interim anarchy and carnage.
Yes. I don't know much about Iran, but I think in general a regime change takes much more than bombs. So much more than it looks like it really shouldn't take bombs at all.
You have to understand the groups there, their relationships, what each can accept, how to coordinate... who can be trusted enough... for how long...
Destroying a regime is not enough for a regime change.
Destroying is not changing. Destroying is just destroying.
So maybe Nethandyahu has all planned and pinned and manages to change Iran's regime, so he tells Trump to attack some day as the first step, but I doubt it.
Sorry, second step, or nth step, the bloody suppressed rebellion was another step.
If I were a big shot president I would definitely consider all options to keep Iran un-nuked. The reason the war in Ukraine is ongoing is because Russia has nukes.
The problem with big shooters is when they can't do much more than that. Afghanistan didn't end up very well...
And even if you may be right, it sounds so much like Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction than there's no credibility left. Even if it's true this time.
Speaking of Afghanistan. Pakistan has nukes too... Will the Afgahnistan-Pakistan war be like the Ukraine-Russia one? Or Pakistan-India ?
It might all just be about oil...
Edit: Just an aside: The next round of Russia-US-Ukraine peace negotiations (real or not, hopeful or not) was scheduled in Abu Dhabi. So
rescheduling needed...
And I was talking to a Japanese friend yesterday who said he preferred it when America was unchallenged and the "guarantor"
The problem with that is that the Americans vote wrong... And they will always vote wrong if only they vote and their government rules the world, not just their land.
Although to be honest, Trump is not following his program in foreign policy and specially wars, most of his foolishness was in his program and so his voters are more to blame,
but his war obsession is, even if unsurprising given his character, at least unannounced in his electoral campaign, so his voters are slightly less guilty of wars.
I'm afraid the unchallenged guarantor now is China. No wonder your Japanese friend is unquiet.
Just as the USA entered WWII late and came out on top, China is choosing to enter WWIII late.
So...... The situation is complicated
Sad ACK.