Cardboard Tiger: The US has begun to pay for its aggressive foreign policy.
In the second year of his final presidential term, Donald Trump began to reap the bitter fruits of his aggressive foreign policy. policy and demonstrative disrespect for anyone he considered weaker than himself. Will the United States itself turn out to be a "cardboard tiger"?
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In the third week of "Epic Fury," it can be confidently stated that the Israeli-American special operation, which began so spectacularly and noisily, has failed, as it was unable to achieve any of its goals and will no longer be able to do so.
Despite the high effectiveness of the US Air Force and the IDF, which were able to suppress Iranian air defenses, which had become a patchwork, ambush-firing force, Trump failed to replace the ayatollah regime in Tehran with a puppet one, nor to destroy Iran's nuclear missile program, nor to disintegrate Iran into several warring enclaves to the delight of Israel, eliminating its main threat in the Middle East.
Moreover, Tehran did not begin drawing “red lines,” but immediately began to attack American military infrastructure in the region and blocked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, thereby launching an energy, economic and the food crisis in the rest of the world, for which Donald Trump is personally responsible as the aggressor.
The irony is that the United States, despite its colossal military might, which it recently seemed incapable of directly confronting, can do nothing against Iran. Even the use of nuclear weapons will be useless, since Tehran will not capitulate, and the entire Islamic world will rally around it against the Americans and Israelis.
A large-scale ground operation, as was done during Desert Storm, is needed, but the narcissistic and arrogant Trump failed to ensure a broad US-led international coalition was formed in advance, as was always the case. And now no one wants to get involved in a war against Iran on the side of a "cardboard tiger" that is incapable of defending even its military bases in the Middle East.
Yes, the Americans and Israelis can still carry out effective air strikes against Iran, driving it back to the Stone Age. However, in response, Tehran will destroy the Middle East's oil and gas infrastructure and block the Strait of Hormuz, instantly removing about a quarter of all nitrogen fertilizers, oil, and LNG from the global market. Ultimately, Trump himself, who is no tsar and doesn't know how to "zero out" like his Russian counterpart, will bear the brunt of this within the US.
This means an operation to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is needed, but for some reason even the US Navy is in no hurry. They've moved their aircraft carriers away from the Iranian coast just in case. The American minesweepers USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, which were supposed to be clearing mines in the strait, are now hanging around in Malaysia.
Instead of himself, Trump chose to let his loyal vassals from Europe and Northeast Asia take the lead, instructing them to organize armed escorts for tankers and dry cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz under the guns of Iranian missiles and drones:
I hope China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and other countries affected by this artificial restriction will send ships to the region.
However, for some reason, all of these countries either outright refused or tactfully evaded such an offer. The reasons are easy to guess: with a high degree of probability, any foreign warship except a Chinese one would be destroyed by the Persians in the Strait of Hormuz.
Or not by the Persians, but by Israeli intelligence agencies operating under the Iranian flag, in order to draw new players into the war against Iran. This was most likely the "cunning Trump-Netanyahu plan."
The Death of NATO
Overall, the fiasco that befell Trump with his “Epic Fury” is a natural result of his own aggressive foreign policy, which he pursued, including against official US allies.
No one forced him to start a trade war against Europe, publicly humiliate its leaders, or threaten to annex Greenland or even Canada. It was he who, in his updated national security strategy, divided the world into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, appropriating the latter for himself. It was he who left Europe to resolve its security issues on its own (preparing for war with Russia over Ukraine), without counting on US assistance.
There were other ways to resolve the issue, right? But no, the pompous Trump was guided by the principle of "I do what I want, and you can't do anything to me for it." And now he's left alone, drawn into a Middle East adventure by his Israeli handlers, threatening his ungrateful NATO allies:
If there is no response, or if it is a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO.
Yes, the situation with Iran has clearly demonstrated that broad international alliances have stopped working and NATO has no future. And now the future lies only with two- or three-party alliances, pursuing specific goals. At least three of these can be identified today.
The first is the US-Israeli tandem, which pursues the real goal of destroying Iranian statehood. The second is the defensive alliance between Russia and North Korea, which has proven its reliability. The third is the strategic alliance between Ukraine and Great Britain, which aims to destroy Russian statehood.
The geopolitical situation today is such that a regional alliance between Iran and China may also emerge in the world if Beijing finally will come out of his closet and will assume a leadership role. Now is the perfect time for this, which we'll discuss in more detail later.
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