The Israelis and the Americans are separate actors with their own interests. There is no umbilical link. The Israelis will not undermine what they consider their basic interests for the Americans. The Americans likewise also act according to how they perceive their interests. The idea that Americans are controlled by Israel are idiotic and are derived by naive people that refuse to believe that the American policy in the Middle East and around the world is what it is. If you look at the grand picture the American policies in Latin America and East Asia over the past 50 years have been nearly identical to the policies pursued in the Middle East.
Reparations and groveling? Iran is no superpower and will have to deal with the US/UK in a way that corresponds to its stature - a developing country with a deteriorating infrastructure with a highly inefficient economy.
What are you talking about? You really think China will do anything if Iran is attacked? Without the US market, the Chinese economy crumbles and dies.
Annual Chinese exports to the US: $300B
Chinese GDP: 5T.
Loss to the Chinese economy: minimum of 6%
The Chinese would face millions of unemployed people and would have to explain why their economic policies failed.
As for any military confrontation, China is no tiger. The Chinese wouldn't even be able to take Taiwan given an aircraft carrier group in the region.
Enough of this nonsense. The only thing where the Iranians are powerful is talking a good game. Their military is weak. Their economy is weak. Their technology is weak. They can cause some damage through proxies in Iraq and Afghanistan and Gaza and Lebanon and maybe temporarily blow a couple of pipelines. That would go on for maybe a week after which they will be defeated and destroyed along with most of their proxies. The US has plenty of food and plenty of oil reserves. We import most of our oil from: Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Nigeria. Of those Venezuela is the only one that might do something with its oil in case of an American attack ( which would be real dumb).
Again, enough of this disaster nonsense. Will an attack on Iran have consequences? Yes. Will they be extremely severe? No. Are their benefits to eliminating a rival in the Middle East? Definitely. Are there benefits to securing a stable supply of oil for the next 20-30 years? Yes. Are their benefits to being seen as powerful and feared? Yes.
This map is about 20 years old. Is there anything more recent?
For example, I am pretty sure the Armenians in Azerbaijan are no longer there (except for Karabagh.
The Israelis and the Americans are separate actors with their own interests. There is no umbilical link. The Israelis will not undermine what they consider their basic interests for the Americans. The Americans likewise also act according to how they perceive their interests. The idea that Americans are controlled by Israel are idiotic and are derived by naive people that refuse to believe that the American policy in the Middle East and around the world is what it is. If you look at the grand picture the American policies in Latin America and East Asia over the past 50 years have been nearly identical to the policies pursued in the Middle East.
Reparations and groveling? Iran is no superpower and will have to deal with the US/UK in a way that corresponds to its stature - a developing country with a deteriorating infrastructure with a highly inefficient economy.
What are you talking about? You really think China will do anything if Iran is attacked? Without the US market, the Chinese economy crumbles and dies.
Annual Chinese exports to the US: $300B
Chinese GDP: 5T.
Loss to the Chinese economy: minimum of 6%
The Chinese would face millions of unemployed people and would have to explain why their economic policies failed.
As for any military confrontation, China is no tiger. The Chinese wouldn't even be able to take Taiwan given an aircraft carrier group in the region.
Enough of this nonsense. The only thing where the Iranians are powerful is talking a good game. Their military is weak. Their economy is weak. Their technology is weak. They can cause some damage through proxies in Iraq and Afghanistan and Gaza and Lebanon and maybe temporarily blow a couple of pipelines. That would go on for maybe a week after which they will be defeated and destroyed along with most of their proxies. The US has plenty of food and plenty of oil reserves. We import most of our oil from: Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Nigeria. Of those Venezuela is the only one that might do something with its oil in case of an American attack ( which would be real dumb).
Again, enough of this disaster nonsense. Will an attack on Iran have consequences? Yes. Will they be extremely severe? No. Are their benefits to eliminating a rival in the Middle East? Definitely. Are there benefits to securing a stable supply of oil for the next 20-30 years? Yes. Are their benefits to being seen as powerful and feared? Yes.