Comment by foxyv | Hacker News Reader

Comment by foxyv | Hacker News Reader

I get the impression that Israel is making bloody hay while the sun shines. They have an extremely favorable political climate to engage in some extreme military actions. Russia's stalled invasion of Ukraine and the election of Donald Trump have pretty much ensured that they will not have to deal with blowback from their aggression.

They don't have to worry about sanctions from the USA led coalition. The don't have to worry about Russian reinforcement of Iran. So they pretty much have a free hand at this point to completely demolish Iran's military and nuclear capability.

It's amazing how many factors lead to situations like this. The current geopolitical climate is total chaos.

That's exactly what's going on. Bibi just uses a window of opportunity and forces USA to join in an attempt to regime change in Iran.

it was always said that attack on the iran will lead to a regional war, as iran will activate it proxies: hamas, hezbollah, houthis, various militias in iraq. maybe syria.

now all those pieces are mostly out of the game and the major factor that led to this is October 7th attack on Israel.

October 7th is looking more and more like a disastrous move by Israel's enemies.

Sounds like every time Israel enemies attack it they end up losing more ground, and yet they never stop to try another way. They handed Israel the perfect pretext for devastating blows.

What other way could they try?

And it is great that at least some of the Axis of Evil countries are punished instead of being appeased and encouraged endlessly.

All of the recent geopolitical events really drive home one conclusion: Trump is an incredibly weak president, entirely controlled by non-US interests on international matters. Furthermore, actions that can be credited as his own also mainly just hurt the US and its allies.

He does seem to be quite capable of making promises that he cannot keep. He never did figure out a new Iranian nuclear deal after breaking the first.

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