Iran War: Is There Any Hope? | The American Spectator

Fear is spreading across the globe — at least my globe.

First, now it’s incontrovertible: the hope that we were in a worldwide post-Cold War era of peace was just a hope. Not real. Just a hope.

Russia is thoroughly at war in Europe and the Middle East. The utterly illegal war against Ukraine gets worse by the day. There was never any justification for it, and now it’s just a Stalinist invasion. The European map is not going to look right to Putin until it would have been right to Stalin. Who is there to stop him? His own people don’t dare stand up to him. Killing Russians is now old hat to Russians. Estimates are that more than 325,000 Russians have died to control a perfectly de jure nation called Ukraine. That has not even slowed Putin down. How many young Russians have to die in the future? And does anyone have to show that there is any sign of Ukraine wanting to surrender?

Now, Russia is showing that it wants to get involved in the Iran-Israel-USA war.

Russian spy images show that Putin wants to help the mass murderers in Tehran against the Israelis and the USA. Russia is taking highly detailed photos of the USA military installations in the region. These photos find their blood-stained way to Iranian rocket launching sites in Iran. Next thing you know, USA soldiers in Saudi Arabia are dead.

The Russians say, “Well, boys, you did it to us in Ukraine. Tough for you now.”

And then, more Americans die.

Then Mr. Trump threatens Iran with token numbers of U.S. Marines to seize Iranian choke points. It would take hundreds of thousands of U.S. fighting men to make a difference in Iran — and then would the regime in Tehran give in? I doubt it a lot. Die-hard Nazis and Japanese showed us all we need to know about dictatorships, ready to die even when their power is broken. People will die even for evil ends. I don’t believe it’s worth trying.

The Russians and the Chinese and the North Koreans will fight us forever. And then what do we get out of it?

Please, Mr. Trump, we love you and trust you. But we see an endless highway of blood from now on. If we can make certain that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, that’s enough for now. After that, please, please blockade Tehran. Let’s not have a ground war against madmen in high positions in Iran, armed and abetted by evil madmen in Russia, China, and North Korea. I tremble in fear about it. My grandfather and my wife’s father were all U.S. military. They suffered terribly. Please let’s use our great advantage in naval and air power to blockade the Mullahs. Let’s not put up our glorious men and women in hand-to-hand combat with people who want to die.

And in the meantime, please let’s have some sense about economic policy. We have a struggling economy in some areas — some powerful spots now, too. Let’s not push our economy into recession or, heaven forbid, depression, to keep prices fairly stable.

I beg you, economists in the White House, let’s keep far, far away from depression. We all hate inflation. Depressions are far worse.

More to come, dear friends.

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