Iran has a population of about ninety million, slightly smaller than Vietnam today (North and South combined). At the height of the Vietnam War, North Vietnam had a population of just under twenty-five million, without air support and sophisticated weapons and still able to carve out a victory. Figure that out. It was just human ingenuity and grit of the North Vietnamese over the brute force of the USA and its allies.
The USA and Israel is not facing a mosquito. Iran is a military power in its own right and with the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas in support, Iran is not an easy meal for the USA and Israel. Trump may think so, gloating about a very successful bombing mission.
Iran already said it is going to retaliate.
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Iran Israel ceasefire for Americans to replenish weapons for the Israelis.
The genocide of the Palestinians continues. No need to have ceasefire. And the Arabs and Muslims already forgotten about the Palestinians. Let them die. Peace has returned to the Middle East. Time to celebrate.
I think it is a grave mistake for Iran to take the truce as the end of hostilities. It will not be the end of the story, as long as Netanyahu exists. Netanyahu needs wars to continue, in Gaza or with Iran, so that he can remain in office to starve off personal problems that are detrimental to his smugness.
Iran must continue to be vigilant. All it takes is a false flag to ignite the flames and Israel has done it in the past. Everyone knows it. That pre-emptive strike by Israel should be a lesson for Iran. Netanyahu's intention was to prevent another nuclear treaty between USA and Iran.
Forget about the mantra that Iran is five months away from making a bomb, a narrative that the Israelis had been shouting over the last 40 years. That nuclear treaty brokered by Barack Obama in 2015, honored by Iran, prevented the Israelis from destroying Iran's nuclear sites, a mindset that the Israelis had harbored for 40 years. Trump, the violin by Netanyahu's side, was conned into tearing up the treaty during his first term, all because it was brokered by Barrack Obama.
Trump was trying to renegotiate with Iran (true or fake) but fell at the doorstep of the meeting room, sabotaged by the Israelis. But whether that was just an act out of collusion is open to speculation.
Now Trump is even saying that China can continue to buy Iranian oil. He wants to take credit for everything happening around the world. But he will blame everything wrong on poor Joe Biden, who probably must be wondering why Trump is using him as a human shield for everything wrong. Thanks to his dementia, Joe will still be able to sleep like a baby, despite all the brickbats thrown at him by Trump.
Oh, about China being able to buy Iranian oil, that should also be a lesson for China to continue to be at least less dependent on energy from the Middle East, just in case. What does not kill China will make it stronger. This is one lesson to be learnt and not to be forgotten.
The truce is just a cover. Israel has run out of interceptor missiles. The USA cannot replenish them due to China sanctions on rare earth. Trump knows that Israel cannot withstand another week of Iranian attacks. Netanyahu is just trying to play chicken by bombing Iran just after the truce was called. Trump is angry with Netanyahu, or are they just playing a game?
But in all certainty, Iran must be prepared for a false flag by Israel to attack USA logistics in the Middle East and putting the blame on Iran if Netanyahu is forced by Trump not to break the truce. Zelenskyy tried that by bombing Poland due to a misfired Soviet era missile and trying to steer the blame on Russia. It failed.
Trump is eyeing the Nobel Peace Prize, normally awarded in a ceremony on December 10th, if I am not mistaken. Can the truce hold until them? In any case, if Trump gets the award, it will be a massive miscarriage of justice for the Palestinians, Russian speaking Ukrainians in Donbass and even Iranian leaders assassinated by the Axis of Evil - USA, UK and Israel. But I would not bet against it, having seen Barrack Obama snatching it.
Supplying bombs and weapons to kill innocent Palestinians is already complicit in a war crime. If that is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, I am flabbergasted.
The White House is already walking back on Trump's post that China can continue to buy Iranian oil. Trump is basically ignorant of what is happening over Iran and about contravening those sanctions imposed on Iran.
The USA is now claiming that China would be devastated if the Straits of Hormuz is blockaded by Iran. Now, who is more nervous about the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz? The USA itself or China? If it is China, why is Marco Rubio asking for China's assistance to influence Iran not to blockade the Straits of Hormuz? Is he saying that he is helping China? The USA leaders should not be weaseling so openly and blatantly and backtracking so fast.
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