But this is also why NATO allies refuse to help with keeping the straits open. They rely on the islamist bloc in their own countries to stay in power. They know the islamists are not happy with how the war is going and they do not want to anger this group of voters. So instead of having a spine, standing up to the evil that is the Mullahs, these useless moribund pathetic creatures that are ruling Europe have decided to give away their civilization to evil.
My question is when will the average European actually do something about it. Are they even able? Will they be allowed?
Which is to say, the Europeans have invited the crocodile into their homes, and are desperately feeding it, hoping to delay the time when it eats them. Those who see the problem are arrested by the government, who are panicking about speeding up that time.
Well I am not going to send my sons to defend Europe from Russia. So however Europe has to rearm to protect itself so be it. Let Europe sacrifice her sons.
And do you really think the Pentagon has no idea what they are doing ? I think I smell some TDS. Trump isn’t running this war, the Pentagon, joint chiefs and the CIA are in charge. And they know exactly what they are dealing with and whether anyone likes it or not they have contingencies and plans. Sorry to burst your bubble but the US is not run by imbeciles.
I have to wonder when the British people will have enough. There has to be a breaking point where they stop living in fear of a few hundred politcal hacks and less than 10 percent of their population and actually do something drastic.
About 6 percent of the European population has an Islamic background, and the vast majority of this heterogeneous group is perfectly content – they are fully integrated and have no homesickness whatsoever for countries with backward Muslim regimes.
It is therefore certainly not the case that the EU must walk on eggshells to spare this population group in the conflict with Iran. There are several reasons why the 'West' is not participating: in Europe, the Iranian regime is considered reprehensible and dangerous (the Iranian secret service is also very active here), but it does not pose a direct threat to its continued existence. Given the economic balance of power, that is, of course, simply inconceivable. For Israel, the situation is quite different; one can easily imagine that the thinking here is entirely different in Tel Aviv. If an eschatological regime says it wants to destroy you, you would do well to take that literally. Then there is Donald Trump – not exactly the best motivator for getting former allies on board for a very risky tour. Risky, because if you start a campaign against an eschatological regime, you had better finish the job—otherwise you can be sure that at some point a mushroom cloud will appear over your cities. And then there is another very simple reason—the European countries were under the illusion of living in an era without wars: unfortunately, in terms of deterrence, the European tiger is little more than a paper tiger for the next 5 to 10 years.
As far as Europe is concerned I beg to differ. Look at what is going on in the UK when it comes to islamists. The government is capitulating to Pakistani rape gangs, and blasphemy laws. This is an issue across the continent. There is an appeasement of even that small part of society. But at the same time, would you have muslims of any stripe voting for a European leader who fights on the side of the US against other muslims?
But I think there is also an antisemitic element that I didnt mention before. The EU countries do not want to be seen on the same side as Israel. This would also be something their own leftwing parties would condemn them for. With all their Israel bashing over the last 2 years they don't want to be seen in league with Jews.
The red-green alliance voting bloc is an issue across all of Europe.
Now do they think this is not their war? Perhaps. But then again, those morons have been buying Russian oil as they send money and arms to Ukraine to fight the Russian army that the Europeans are funding through. their oil purchases. There is just something completely lacking in European leadership. Do they have an economic stake in this war? What do they think is going to happen to their economies with the Strait of Hormuz closed? The reality is that those who lead Europe are useless. If this war has nothing to do with them, then when they need the US, their wars will have nothing to do with us.
And as far as Trump is concerned. They need Trump for NATO. They have made their choice. They think by not coming on the side of the US they will just wait it out for the next US President. But they might be really surprised because it is not going to be some leftist democrat, but it will be a right wing isolationist and they are on their own when Russia comes knocking on their door.
Yes--the antisemitic element. We see that same element not only in the European leaders, but here in America, too. It's why the Democrats are EXTREMELY against the war, and the growing Woke Reich in the Republican party are making such a nasty fuss and blaming it ALL on Israel.
"Russia knocking at our door": it is actually surprising that both in Washington and Moscow, there are different calls for Europe to rearm. Two world wars originated on this continent, and that is the main reason why we here liked to believe that we could maintain our position in the world as paper tiger. Do you think it will make the world safer if Germany once again has a 'Hochseeflotte' and 50 armored divisions at its disposal in a few years? Pure regression; that is the spirit of the times, unfortunately. Indeed, anti-Semitism is unfortunately on the rise in Europe, due to the PR battle Israel lost in the Gaza War. (Nevertheless, Israel can still count on the support of the vast majority of Europeans.)
But even without that setback, there would have been no question of European leaders joining a total war against Iran. Trump really doesn't know what he has gotten himself into.
I agree with what you wrote in the beginning, but Trump and his team knew what he got into and they had to weigh the plus/minuses of doing this now when Iran was/is at the weakest point ever. Iran was building 100 ballistic missiles a month, close to getting a nuke and close to acquiring intercontinental ballistic missiles.
And they were burying (even deeper than Fordow) tons of missiles as well as re-starting their nuke program. They were bragging about it publicly and showing their weapons that are buried so deep, they are nearly untouchable (however, today, the USA visited of those sites and destroyed it by dropping a 5-thousand ton bomb on it). In six months, or much less, Iran's air defenses would be rebuilt and weapons re-supplied (Russia, China, North Korea are happy to oblige) and they would blackmail the world, not just with the Strait of Hormuz, but worse.
I can imagine the demands: "Force Israel and the Jews out of the Middle East or..." And that would be the least of it. Look how cowed Europe is just by their Muslim population; now imagine Iran directly threatening them.
The US stalled and tried diplomacy with North Korea and waited too long. Now a crazy dictator leads that country and he has nukes. The world cannot afford to let religious lunatic death cult leaders get a nuke, or even ballistic missiles. Or anything, really.
Meanwhile, Europe: we'll have to deal with them at some point in the future if they continue on the path they are on: But keep in mind, America isn't too far behind on that path and with the Woke Reich and the Woke Left tearing this country apart, the next focus should be on the impending war HERE.
I agree with this article and the background on Islam. However, it is a mistake to think Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are not enemies of the United States and Israel. In fact, they are more dangerous than Iran because they are more subtle. While the Iranian regime screams and bites, the Gulf States entice the West with smiles and all the luxuries that we so easily fall for. Do not ever imagine that if they saw an opportunity (and they are positioning for it--Saudi Arabia just made the biggest arms deal with the United States in history) they won't destroy Israel and the US because they, too, serve Allah and dream of religious and political domination.
Thanks for calling spade a spade. Political correctness has tried to convince us that by masking over the glaring incongruities between Islam and Western democratic norms we are moving toward "peaceful coexistence." The opposite is true.
Once we compromise over core assumptions, we are on a downhill slope. Every concession weakens our dominant ethos and strengthens the dreams of Islamists. Hopefully the results of our passive acceptance of Islamist encroachments in England, France and elsewhere have shown the appeasers where their path leads us. The obvious alternative is to insist on constitutional law and separation of church and state with no concessions to Muslim "sensibilities." Those who refuse to embrace this core framework are welcome to take their religious fundamentalism and intolerance back to their countries of origin.
--- HOW should European countries (be able to) help out at the Strait of Hormuz ? There is no clear strategy visible by US forces.
--- WHY don´t all these demands go to the glorious "Abraham Accord" totalitarian Islam monarchy states of which is claimed they were "friends"/ "allies" of Trump just because he one time held praises at Qatar and then forbid Israel to destroy the Islamists living a lush life there ?
-- If the Europeans get forced and/to see the need to weapon against another "friend" of Trump, Putin, why then is there no similar heavy demand on those Arab states to see reality and to have forced weaponizing themselves agains t the local devil Iran ?
Are we the fools of the stinking Islam world that refuses to establish freedom and democracy ?
HOW can rich states like those be so helpless against attacks from Iran ? Why don´t they attack Iran themselves to make an ash heap of Iran ?
Instead in the latter years they have tried to "come to terms" with the devil and had hoped Iran would not attack them.
How dumb can those states be allowed to be ?
But someone like Trump lacking any fundamental knowledge of (World) politics sending "envoys" like Wittkoff hasn´t prepared for that as for many other things.
And the "Democrats" continue to lull of "Peace negotiations" with the devils.
It´s not about "Trump" or "Democrats" but about having a strategy or not. Israel has it, US don´t , Europe don´t, so how can anyone wonder about the outcome ?
Answer to your questions (somewhat). Trump wants military escorts for ships and help bombing Iran's military installations that threaten Hormuz. It would speed up the process. As for the Arabs: They are helping where they can but their capabilities don't match US/Israel and they are focused also on defending their own countries. And they also have radicals in their population they need to quiet and completely quell in the near future (much like America has the left and antifa, but their radicals are much more violent). They are going to HAVE to get more involved in cleaning up the Mideast in general and they will, they are very motivated to get the New Middle East off and running. As for Qatar--they will be dealt with and will have to clean up THEIR act, too, or they will be isolated. The bottom line is this: America and Israel are saving the world from the most dangerous tyranny ever seen, and all the European leaders KNOW this, but they are weak, scared, and extremely corrupt (I'd love to see their off-shore bank accounts). And America and Israel are doing a SPECTACULAR job; no military operation like this has ever been seen. And it will all lead to amazing, historical changes. Is it perfect? No. Is it risky? Of course, but what was the alternative? Trust the process: It's been 20 days.
Ras Laffan, the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Qatar, has now been "severely damaged" by an Iranian missile attack, according to operator QatarEnergy.
Production has been temporarily halted – which has serious consequences not only for the global energy supply, but also a.o. for semiconductor production.
Iran attacked this industrial facility northeast of Doha in retaliation to an attack by Israel on Iran's South Pars gas field, which reportedly was the first attack on an Iranian energy production facility since the start of the war between Israel and the US on February 28. Both Iran and Qatar are calling it a "new level of escalation".
The two countries are neighbours a.o. through the shared gas field in the Persian Gulf, "South Pars" on Iranian, "North Dome" on the Qatari side. Ras Laffan was specifically built to process gas from North Dome. Gas production is one of the main sources of revenue for both governments.
The "Wall Street Journal" had reported before that Donald Trump was informed in advance of Israel's attack on South Pars and approved it. The US president allegedly wanted to put pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump reportedly assumed that Tehran understood the message and would want to avoid further attacks on its energy infrastructure.
But later, on his platform „TruthSocial", Trump distanced himself from Israel's attack. He claimed to have had "known nothing" about it and promised to prevent Israel from launching further attacks on Iranian facilities—but this apparent de-escalation was immediately followed by another threat: Should Iran attack Qatar again, Iran's energy facilities would be "destroyed" in a massive attack.
Such contradictory statements - not the first one by Trump - suggest that the president apparently still lacks a strategy for dealing with Iran.
If Trump conducts that way even with close allies such as Israel, how then will he treat others ? And he expects then that others are willingly joining in ?
Apart from the fact that virtually no European country than maybe France possesses the military capabilities to monitor and secure such a strait, the warring party presented a completely lacking and undiscernible strategy for which soldiers could not be risked without concrete, constructive prospects.
Apart from that, European and other shipping companies and oil tankers, regarding the looming confrontation, have long been using alternative routes along West and South African coasts towards Asia.
The war against Iran insofar can be named a war for the entire "Western world" as decades of "diplomacy" have predictably yielded no results other than allowing the mullah dictatorship to quietly build up its threats and, following the attacks in May 2025, to continue its massive arms buildup with short- and medium-range missiles produced by Iran itself.
But even if all these military capabilities were destroyed, it remains entirely unclear how regime change could be achieved without ground troops.
In Venezuela, there had been a direct in-country intervention with alternative politicians able to form a government.
All of this had clearly not been considered or discussed with possible allies before Trump's military actions; Trump's appeals to "the Europeans" can therefore only be seen as a way of shifting blame to others in order to deflect attention from his own failures and strategy lackings.
Well, we will have to wait and see how it all plays out. Everyone, everywhere, is putting in their analysis and predictions; everyone from serious journalists, to serious historians, to pod-casters and influences (and of course, Hollywood Actors have to put in their ignorant opinions, too. We don't know what is going on behind closed doors and all we can do is look at results as things move along. So far, Iran is being clobbered and things are more or less "on track." Of course not everything could have been predicted/planned ahead of time; that's impossible, but obviously there was as much careful planning that could possibly be done because we see the jaw-dropping results so far. How long until Iran is clobbered enough to pull back our military? No one knows except perhaps those behind closed doors. One thing we do know: Iran was THISCLOSE to being untouchable and getting the nuke and no one else could stop it. Sure, this all comes with big risks, but what were the alternatives? What else could have been done other than military force? What do YOU think the strategy should have been --and what do you think it SHOULD be going forward? (And please don't say more diplomacy/negotiations).
Joshua, I think you’re right to frame this as something deeper than a typical geopolitical conflict.
What stands out to me is how misunderstood this is in the West. On the surface, it should be obvious: regimes like Iran—repressive, expansionist, and hostile to basic freedoms—should be the last ones to attract sympathy. And yet, that’s not what we see.
A big reason is the lens many people use to interpret the world—one that reduces conflicts to oppression and colonialism. That framework ends up recasting movements rooted in political Islam as “resistance,” rather than recognizing them as ideological projects with very different goals.
The result is a powerful overlap: progressive narratives provide the moral framing, while Islamist movements supply the cause. It’s not a formal alliance, but it creates a real distortion—one that helps explain why regimes like Iran are often misunderstood or even defended.
Until that’s acknowledged, the confusion you’re describing will continue.
💯 for further reading, Ephraim Karsh - Islamic Imperialism.
"Supreme National Security Council said: “The unity of the Islamic Ummah with all its might can ensure and guarantee the security, excellence, and independence of countries for all.”
-- this statement is another lie - no surprise - and taqqia/propaganda. Islam does not recognize national boundaries, as you pointed out. The Muslim Brotherhood explicitly doesn't recognize national boundaries.
We know what the Muslims want and what their book and dictator "prophet" demand: One World Government with an Ayatolla running it. Sound familiar - there's a lot in common with the socialist-communist globalism.
One state the ...the invented nation of Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman empire made being Turk more significant than Islam. They put the crescent on the flag but Attaturk wanted most of all>>>Turkification in his multi ethnic nation. Now Turkey has reverted. That's one example of attempted secularization. Now with the invention of Palestine the world gets to batter the Jews yet again. My speculation is how do the reasonable Arab regimes respond to Israel if Iran is finally a state and not a cause. If I were Israeli I wouldn't get too excited about the soon prospect of driving to Beirut or Aleppo. Israel is still an aberration to the Muslim in the heart of the Ummah. They may to finally come to terms with Israel respecting as they do strength where as before they were contemptuous of the weak Jew....but Islam remains the same.
Islam is not a religion it is a political ideology of expansion. From its inception it grew rapidly through forced conversions and slaughter. At the same time it also takes a very long view. Moslems will emigrate and peacefully coexist for centuries until their numbers are strong enough to exert power. Peace loving Muslims do not consider themselves to be a part of this “plan” to take over host countries, but it is written into the DNA of Islam. We are at the threshold of a major conflict. Western culture is incompatible with Islam. Do we really want to hear a muezzin’s call to prayer in Times Square? What comes next will be far worse.
Though not a part of this essay, another reason for the Arab bloc's issue with Iran concerns the schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia versions, which at times rises to violence and war. This is one reason why Turkey, despite its hostility towards Israel, hasn't joined or otherwise assisted Iran. The Al Qaeda magazine Inspire and the ISIS publication Dabiq often published articles describing the "Shia apostates" as worse than the Jews, and even worse than Zionists. Hard core Sunni and hard core Shia adherents view each other as apostates and not true followers of Mohammad or of the Quran, worse than Kuffir Jews, Christians, and all non Muslims.
As to the Europeans they are committing political and cultural suicide by allowing so many Moslems to take root in their countries. Iran is the open expression of radical Islam and even the other co-religionist countries in the region KNOW the dangers of this crazy nation and may be privately supporting Operation Epic Fury.
Excellent analysis though too complicated for a simpleton like Trump to understand, much less explain to American voters. Unfortunately, for Muslims the choice is between a bankrupt theocratic philosophy and medieval monarchical models like Saudi Arabia.
But this is also why NATO allies refuse to help with keeping the straits open. They rely on the islamist bloc in their own countries to stay in power. They know the islamists are not happy with how the war is going and they do not want to anger this group of voters. So instead of having a spine, standing up to the evil that is the Mullahs, these useless moribund pathetic creatures that are ruling Europe have decided to give away their civilization to evil.
My question is when will the average European actually do something about it. Are they even able? Will they be allowed?
Which is to say, the Europeans have invited the crocodile into their homes, and are desperately feeding it, hoping to delay the time when it eats them. Those who see the problem are arrested by the government, who are panicking about speeding up that time.
Well I am not going to send my sons to defend Europe from Russia. So however Europe has to rearm to protect itself so be it. Let Europe sacrifice her sons.
And do you really think the Pentagon has no idea what they are doing ? I think I smell some TDS. Trump isn’t running this war, the Pentagon, joint chiefs and the CIA are in charge. And they know exactly what they are dealing with and whether anyone likes it or not they have contingencies and plans. Sorry to burst your bubble but the US is not run by imbeciles.
Plus the US has, as Pete Hegseth said (paraphrasing): "Israel. With Israel, we have an amazing 'force multiplier.'"
Europe is useless and I see no reason for us to continue committing to NATO.
I have to wonder when the British people will have enough. There has to be a breaking point where they stop living in fear of a few hundred politcal hacks and less than 10 percent of their population and actually do something drastic.
About 6 percent of the European population has an Islamic background, and the vast majority of this heterogeneous group is perfectly content – they are fully integrated and have no homesickness whatsoever for countries with backward Muslim regimes.
It is therefore certainly not the case that the EU must walk on eggshells to spare this population group in the conflict with Iran. There are several reasons why the 'West' is not participating: in Europe, the Iranian regime is considered reprehensible and dangerous (the Iranian secret service is also very active here), but it does not pose a direct threat to its continued existence. Given the economic balance of power, that is, of course, simply inconceivable. For Israel, the situation is quite different; one can easily imagine that the thinking here is entirely different in Tel Aviv. If an eschatological regime says it wants to destroy you, you would do well to take that literally. Then there is Donald Trump – not exactly the best motivator for getting former allies on board for a very risky tour. Risky, because if you start a campaign against an eschatological regime, you had better finish the job—otherwise you can be sure that at some point a mushroom cloud will appear over your cities. And then there is another very simple reason—the European countries were under the illusion of living in an era without wars: unfortunately, in terms of deterrence, the European tiger is little more than a paper tiger for the next 5 to 10 years.
As far as Europe is concerned I beg to differ. Look at what is going on in the UK when it comes to islamists. The government is capitulating to Pakistani rape gangs, and blasphemy laws. This is an issue across the continent. There is an appeasement of even that small part of society. But at the same time, would you have muslims of any stripe voting for a European leader who fights on the side of the US against other muslims?
But I think there is also an antisemitic element that I didnt mention before. The EU countries do not want to be seen on the same side as Israel. This would also be something their own leftwing parties would condemn them for. With all their Israel bashing over the last 2 years they don't want to be seen in league with Jews.
The red-green alliance voting bloc is an issue across all of Europe.
Now do they think this is not their war? Perhaps. But then again, those morons have been buying Russian oil as they send money and arms to Ukraine to fight the Russian army that the Europeans are funding through. their oil purchases. There is just something completely lacking in European leadership. Do they have an economic stake in this war? What do they think is going to happen to their economies with the Strait of Hormuz closed? The reality is that those who lead Europe are useless. If this war has nothing to do with them, then when they need the US, their wars will have nothing to do with us.
And as far as Trump is concerned. They need Trump for NATO. They have made their choice. They think by not coming on the side of the US they will just wait it out for the next US President. But they might be really surprised because it is not going to be some leftist democrat, but it will be a right wing isolationist and they are on their own when Russia comes knocking on their door.
Yes--the antisemitic element. We see that same element not only in the European leaders, but here in America, too. It's why the Democrats are EXTREMELY against the war, and the growing Woke Reich in the Republican party are making such a nasty fuss and blaming it ALL on Israel.
"Russia knocking at our door": it is actually surprising that both in Washington and Moscow, there are different calls for Europe to rearm. Two world wars originated on this continent, and that is the main reason why we here liked to believe that we could maintain our position in the world as paper tiger. Do you think it will make the world safer if Germany once again has a 'Hochseeflotte' and 50 armored divisions at its disposal in a few years? Pure regression; that is the spirit of the times, unfortunately. Indeed, anti-Semitism is unfortunately on the rise in Europe, due to the PR battle Israel lost in the Gaza War. (Nevertheless, Israel can still count on the support of the vast majority of Europeans.)
But even without that setback, there would have been no question of European leaders joining a total war against Iran. Trump really doesn't know what he has gotten himself into.
I agree with what you wrote in the beginning, but Trump and his team knew what he got into and they had to weigh the plus/minuses of doing this now when Iran was/is at the weakest point ever. Iran was building 100 ballistic missiles a month, close to getting a nuke and close to acquiring intercontinental ballistic missiles.
And they were burying (even deeper than Fordow) tons of missiles as well as re-starting their nuke program. They were bragging about it publicly and showing their weapons that are buried so deep, they are nearly untouchable (however, today, the USA visited of those sites and destroyed it by dropping a 5-thousand ton bomb on it). In six months, or much less, Iran's air defenses would be rebuilt and weapons re-supplied (Russia, China, North Korea are happy to oblige) and they would blackmail the world, not just with the Strait of Hormuz, but worse.
I can imagine the demands: "Force Israel and the Jews out of the Middle East or..." And that would be the least of it. Look how cowed Europe is just by their Muslim population; now imagine Iran directly threatening them.
The US stalled and tried diplomacy with North Korea and waited too long. Now a crazy dictator leads that country and he has nukes. The world cannot afford to let religious lunatic death cult leaders get a nuke, or even ballistic missiles. Or anything, really.
Meanwhile, Europe: we'll have to deal with them at some point in the future if they continue on the path they are on: But keep in mind, America isn't too far behind on that path and with the Woke Reich and the Woke Left tearing this country apart, the next focus should be on the impending war HERE.
Read Camp of the Saints written in the 1970s and describes Europe and its situation of today. In the story the govt turns against its own citizens
I agree with this article and the background on Islam. However, it is a mistake to think Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are not enemies of the United States and Israel. In fact, they are more dangerous than Iran because they are more subtle. While the Iranian regime screams and bites, the Gulf States entice the West with smiles and all the luxuries that we so easily fall for. Do not ever imagine that if they saw an opportunity (and they are positioning for it--Saudi Arabia just made the biggest arms deal with the United States in history) they won't destroy Israel and the US because they, too, serve Allah and dream of religious and political domination.
Thanks for calling spade a spade. Political correctness has tried to convince us that by masking over the glaring incongruities between Islam and Western democratic norms we are moving toward "peaceful coexistence." The opposite is true.
Once we compromise over core assumptions, we are on a downhill slope. Every concession weakens our dominant ethos and strengthens the dreams of Islamists. Hopefully the results of our passive acceptance of Islamist encroachments in England, France and elsewhere have shown the appeasers where their path leads us. The obvious alternative is to insist on constitutional law and separation of church and state with no concessions to Muslim "sensibilities." Those who refuse to embrace this core framework are welcome to take their religious fundamentalism and intolerance back to their countries of origin.
The war of civilizations began with the inception of Islam 1,400 years ago.
Those who ignore this fact will either succumb to Islam or find their heads rolling.
Not only for me, the main questions are:
--- HOW should European countries (be able to) help out at the Strait of Hormuz ? There is no clear strategy visible by US forces.
--- WHY don´t all these demands go to the glorious "Abraham Accord" totalitarian Islam monarchy states of which is claimed they were "friends"/ "allies" of Trump just because he one time held praises at Qatar and then forbid Israel to destroy the Islamists living a lush life there ?
-- If the Europeans get forced and/to see the need to weapon against another "friend" of Trump, Putin, why then is there no similar heavy demand on those Arab states to see reality and to have forced weaponizing themselves agains t the local devil Iran ?
Are we the fools of the stinking Islam world that refuses to establish freedom and democracy ?
HOW can rich states like those be so helpless against attacks from Iran ? Why don´t they attack Iran themselves to make an ash heap of Iran ?
Instead in the latter years they have tried to "come to terms" with the devil and had hoped Iran would not attack them.
How dumb can those states be allowed to be ?
But someone like Trump lacking any fundamental knowledge of (World) politics sending "envoys" like Wittkoff hasn´t prepared for that as for many other things.
And the "Democrats" continue to lull of "Peace negotiations" with the devils.
It´s not about "Trump" or "Democrats" but about having a strategy or not. Israel has it, US don´t , Europe don´t, so how can anyone wonder about the outcome ?
Answer to your questions (somewhat). Trump wants military escorts for ships and help bombing Iran's military installations that threaten Hormuz. It would speed up the process. As for the Arabs: They are helping where they can but their capabilities don't match US/Israel and they are focused also on defending their own countries. And they also have radicals in their population they need to quiet and completely quell in the near future (much like America has the left and antifa, but their radicals are much more violent). They are going to HAVE to get more involved in cleaning up the Mideast in general and they will, they are very motivated to get the New Middle East off and running. As for Qatar--they will be dealt with and will have to clean up THEIR act, too, or they will be isolated. The bottom line is this: America and Israel are saving the world from the most dangerous tyranny ever seen, and all the European leaders KNOW this, but they are weak, scared, and extremely corrupt (I'd love to see their off-shore bank accounts). And America and Israel are doing a SPECTACULAR job; no military operation like this has ever been seen. And it will all lead to amazing, historical changes. Is it perfect? No. Is it risky? Of course, but what was the alternative? Trust the process: It's been 20 days.
Thank You.
Ras Laffan, the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Qatar, has now been "severely damaged" by an Iranian missile attack, according to operator QatarEnergy.
Production has been temporarily halted – which has serious consequences not only for the global energy supply, but also a.o. for semiconductor production.
Iran attacked this industrial facility northeast of Doha in retaliation to an attack by Israel on Iran's South Pars gas field, which reportedly was the first attack on an Iranian energy production facility since the start of the war between Israel and the US on February 28. Both Iran and Qatar are calling it a "new level of escalation".
The two countries are neighbours a.o. through the shared gas field in the Persian Gulf, "South Pars" on Iranian, "North Dome" on the Qatari side. Ras Laffan was specifically built to process gas from North Dome. Gas production is one of the main sources of revenue for both governments.
The "Wall Street Journal" had reported before that Donald Trump was informed in advance of Israel's attack on South Pars and approved it. The US president allegedly wanted to put pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump reportedly assumed that Tehran understood the message and would want to avoid further attacks on its energy infrastructure.
But later, on his platform „TruthSocial", Trump distanced himself from Israel's attack. He claimed to have had "known nothing" about it and promised to prevent Israel from launching further attacks on Iranian facilities—but this apparent de-escalation was immediately followed by another threat: Should Iran attack Qatar again, Iran's energy facilities would be "destroyed" in a massive attack.
Such contradictory statements - not the first one by Trump - suggest that the president apparently still lacks a strategy for dealing with Iran.
If Trump conducts that way even with close allies such as Israel, how then will he treat others ? And he expects then that others are willingly joining in ?
Apart from the fact that virtually no European country than maybe France possesses the military capabilities to monitor and secure such a strait, the warring party presented a completely lacking and undiscernible strategy for which soldiers could not be risked without concrete, constructive prospects.
Apart from that, European and other shipping companies and oil tankers, regarding the looming confrontation, have long been using alternative routes along West and South African coasts towards Asia.
The war against Iran insofar can be named a war for the entire "Western world" as decades of "diplomacy" have predictably yielded no results other than allowing the mullah dictatorship to quietly build up its threats and, following the attacks in May 2025, to continue its massive arms buildup with short- and medium-range missiles produced by Iran itself.
But even if all these military capabilities were destroyed, it remains entirely unclear how regime change could be achieved without ground troops.
In Venezuela, there had been a direct in-country intervention with alternative politicians able to form a government.
All of this had clearly not been considered or discussed with possible allies before Trump's military actions; Trump's appeals to "the Europeans" can therefore only be seen as a way of shifting blame to others in order to deflect attention from his own failures and strategy lackings.
Well, we will have to wait and see how it all plays out. Everyone, everywhere, is putting in their analysis and predictions; everyone from serious journalists, to serious historians, to pod-casters and influences (and of course, Hollywood Actors have to put in their ignorant opinions, too. We don't know what is going on behind closed doors and all we can do is look at results as things move along. So far, Iran is being clobbered and things are more or less "on track." Of course not everything could have been predicted/planned ahead of time; that's impossible, but obviously there was as much careful planning that could possibly be done because we see the jaw-dropping results so far. How long until Iran is clobbered enough to pull back our military? No one knows except perhaps those behind closed doors. One thing we do know: Iran was THISCLOSE to being untouchable and getting the nuke and no one else could stop it. Sure, this all comes with big risks, but what were the alternatives? What else could have been done other than military force? What do YOU think the strategy should have been --and what do you think it SHOULD be going forward? (And please don't say more diplomacy/negotiations).
I totally agree with this statement.
Joshua, I think you’re right to frame this as something deeper than a typical geopolitical conflict.
What stands out to me is how misunderstood this is in the West. On the surface, it should be obvious: regimes like Iran—repressive, expansionist, and hostile to basic freedoms—should be the last ones to attract sympathy. And yet, that’s not what we see.
A big reason is the lens many people use to interpret the world—one that reduces conflicts to oppression and colonialism. That framework ends up recasting movements rooted in political Islam as “resistance,” rather than recognizing them as ideological projects with very different goals.
The result is a powerful overlap: progressive narratives provide the moral framing, while Islamist movements supply the cause. It’s not a formal alliance, but it creates a real distortion—one that helps explain why regimes like Iran are often misunderstood or even defended.
Until that’s acknowledged, the confusion you’re describing will continue.
💯 for further reading, Ephraim Karsh - Islamic Imperialism.
"Supreme National Security Council said: “The unity of the Islamic Ummah with all its might can ensure and guarantee the security, excellence, and independence of countries for all.”
-- this statement is another lie - no surprise - and taqqia/propaganda. Islam does not recognize national boundaries, as you pointed out. The Muslim Brotherhood explicitly doesn't recognize national boundaries.
We know what the Muslims want and what their book and dictator "prophet" demand: One World Government with an Ayatolla running it. Sound familiar - there's a lot in common with the socialist-communist globalism.
One state the ...the invented nation of Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman empire made being Turk more significant than Islam. They put the crescent on the flag but Attaturk wanted most of all>>>Turkification in his multi ethnic nation. Now Turkey has reverted. That's one example of attempted secularization. Now with the invention of Palestine the world gets to batter the Jews yet again. My speculation is how do the reasonable Arab regimes respond to Israel if Iran is finally a state and not a cause. If I were Israeli I wouldn't get too excited about the soon prospect of driving to Beirut or Aleppo. Israel is still an aberration to the Muslim in the heart of the Ummah. They may to finally come to terms with Israel respecting as they do strength where as before they were contemptuous of the weak Jew....but Islam remains the same.
Oh, SPOT ON!!!
Islam is not a religion it is a political ideology of expansion. From its inception it grew rapidly through forced conversions and slaughter. At the same time it also takes a very long view. Moslems will emigrate and peacefully coexist for centuries until their numbers are strong enough to exert power. Peace loving Muslims do not consider themselves to be a part of this “plan” to take over host countries, but it is written into the DNA of Islam. We are at the threshold of a major conflict. Western culture is incompatible with Islam. Do we really want to hear a muezzin’s call to prayer in Times Square? What comes next will be far worse.
Though not a part of this essay, another reason for the Arab bloc's issue with Iran concerns the schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia versions, which at times rises to violence and war. This is one reason why Turkey, despite its hostility towards Israel, hasn't joined or otherwise assisted Iran. The Al Qaeda magazine Inspire and the ISIS publication Dabiq often published articles describing the "Shia apostates" as worse than the Jews, and even worse than Zionists. Hard core Sunni and hard core Shia adherents view each other as apostates and not true followers of Mohammad or of the Quran, worse than Kuffir Jews, Christians, and all non Muslims.
As to the Europeans they are committing political and cultural suicide by allowing so many Moslems to take root in their countries. Iran is the open expression of radical Islam and even the other co-religionist countries in the region KNOW the dangers of this crazy nation and may be privately supporting Operation Epic Fury.
Excellent analysis though too complicated for a simpleton like Trump to understand, much less explain to American voters. Unfortunately, for Muslims the choice is between a bankrupt theocratic philosophy and medieval monarchical models like Saudi Arabia.