This is a strategic alliance that Russia is likely to come to regret. Historically, Islamic states don’t willingly enter into partnerships with Infidels that redound to the benefit of those Infidels. There are abundant examples this in my forthcoming book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here now.
“Russia Starts Advanced Construction on New Iranian Nuke Plant,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 4, 2018:
Russia has begun advanced construction on a new Iranian nuclear plant that could provide Tehran with a second, plutonium-based pathway to a nuclear weapon, according to regional reports that have rattled U.S. officials in the wake of a major disclosure showing Iran lied about its past efforts to construct nuclear warheads.
Russia’s state-controlled nuclear agency Rosatom announced that it has begun phase-two construction on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant in Southern Iran, just one of several new nuclear sites that are being constructed under a multibillion-dollar agreement between the two countries.
Construction on the nuclear site kicked off just days after the Israeli government disclosed a cache of some 100,000 secret Iranian documents showing the regime lied about its past efforts to construct at least five nuclear warheads. This nuclear work was later archived and codified by Tehran so that it could continue such work secretly despite the enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal.
U.S. officials and regional experts said the new nuclear plant construction should be viewed with caution in the wake of Israel’s disclosure and place renewed focus by the international community on Iran’s clandestine efforts to use civilian nuclear sites to advance its weapons work.
On Thursday, Russia’s Rosatom announced “soil stabilization works under the reactor building of power unit No 2 commenced at Bushehr-2 NPP construction site,” according to reports in Iran’s state-controlled media outlets.
The nuclear work is being carried out under a 2014 agreement between Iran and Russia that paved the way for the construction of at least eight new nuclear sites, including the plant at Bushehr….
Ren says
Look at Afghanistan. Americans helped the Mujahideen muslims to fight back the Russians. When it was over, the Mujahideen muslims turned their back to the Americans.
gravenimage says
Russia starts advanced construction on new Iranian nuke plant
……………….
Deeplyt disturbing. What is Putin thinking?
And even if he doesn’t care about any other Infidels, isn’t Russia under enough threat from Jihad as it is?
gravenimage says
Deeply
J D S says
Hey graven…wouldn’t this make a great picture for the cover of Time mag rag. Now just what would the caption be?
gravenimage says
Some big load of Taqiyya, no doubt, about progress, cooperation, and innovation, J D S. Wish I could think of something witty and funny right now–I’m sure it is fertile ground.
Janwaar Bibi says
Deeply disturbing. What is Putin thinking?
Probably the same thing the US thought when it got into bed with the likes of Osama bin Laden, the Afghan mujaheddin, and the Pakistani ISI – the enemy of my enemy is my friend even if they are murderous, fanatical scum.
The other possibility is that Putin is thinking the same thing that US Presidents think when they hold hands and giggle with Saudi Wahabbi thugs – it’s a good thing we have no scruples because this is a great opportunity to make some money.
gravenimage says
I don’t want to see *anyone* cuddling up to Jihadists.
And there is less excuse for ignorance now than there was decades ago–it is a lot harder to miss the threat of Jihad terror now.
alex9234 says
Simple. To subvert their shared enemies – the U.S. and Israel. Iran is a Russian proxy state and has been since 1979.
Remember this quote:
“Only a coalition of Islamists and Marxists can destroy the United States.”
– Carlos the Jackal
Peggy says
Why would anyone want more nukes in Muslim hands? Pakistan is enough. They should never have been allowed to get some but now Iran too?
I can only hope that the plants are designed in such a way as to blow up if ever used to make nuclear weapons.
I know, too much to hope for.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
with exit Petrodollar system giving the evil united states double advantage by Russia, china, Turkey, Iran and other nations, which cause the value Dollar to crash by 100%,the evil united states is now incapacitated. As a result American economy, in already in recesssion, is heading to depression.
Thus, Iran needs not produce nuclear bombs, because the archenemy is dying.
gravenimage says
As I have noted before, Ibrahim itace muhammed has stated many times that Muslims have destroyed the American economy and will soon take over.
Now I see that he is claiming that the dollar is literally worthless, and that all Americans are flat broke. Man, do I wish I’d splurged on the cute bracelet yesterday…too late now…sarc/off
And look who he allies with–Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran–all unfree or at best semi-free nations, all with brutal histories.
As for the claim that Iran will not need nukes–how else are they supposed to “wipe Israel off the map”?
Wellington says
And not to be forgotten, gravenimage, is that Ibrahim has accused you of worshiping Satan. What a loon. But put another way, what a good Muslim.
As for Putin, more and more I think the guy is in over his head. He’s too clever by half. He has not diversified the Russian economy, he has said positive things about two psychopaths, Ivan the Terrible and Stalin, he thinks the West is more of a threat to Russia than is Islam, corruption in Russia is profound in Russia during his “tenure,” he keeps cozying up with the number one state sponsor of terror in all the world, Iran, he doesn’t understand the greatness of America whatsoever (oh yeah, this completely eludes him), and, God-damn it, he’s tedious in the extreme to the point of compete boredom. Have nothing for Putin. Just one more Russian ruler who, in the final analysis, pulls Russia down once again.
Perhaps most important, he also doesn’t get, as most Russians stil don’t get, that the Cold War ended not in a draw but in a victory for the leader of freedom, i.e., America, and the demise of an inveterate opponent of freedom, the USSR. Yes, Putin and so many other Russians are so clueless that they actually believe the Cold War was a draw. Believe that and anything is possible, for instance that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. Yep, Russians remain in denial about so many things. Putin serves as a “first-rate” poster boy here.
Wellington says
“…still…” and not “…stil…”
Damn, typos are vexing. But not nearly as much as Islam is.
Yeah, a world with typos aplenty would still be majorly OK, but a world with Islam never will be.
gravenimage says
All true, Wellington.
And yes–Ibrahim itace muhammed thinks that I “worship the satan” for opposing child marriage, brigandage, rape, and mass slaughter. Talk about projection!
Az fro tipos, we we al have to life wiuth them.. Your are rght that their are wors things, tho… 🙂
Wellington says
Very funny, gravenimage. My compliments.
Indiana Tom says
Putin is good at selling the idea that all of Russia’s problems are the result of the USA. Putin and his heavy handed government are a lot of Russia’s problem. A lot of Putin’s policies to screw the USA have backfired on him and he has been accumulating a lot of eggs on his face.
gravenimage says
Having worked as a proofreader and editor helped, Wellington. Given that, you’d think I’d make fewer typos myself…
gravenimage says
True, Indiana Tom.
alex9234 says
“he keeps cozying up with the number one state sponsor of terror in all the world, Iran”
Not just Iran but China and North Korea as well.
“that the Cold War ended”
The Cold War never ended. It shifted gears. Russia is just as intent on destroying America as it was in Soviet times. The KGB/FSB is far more dangerous now than it was in Soviet times.
Other than that, you’re right. Russia is an enemy of this country and the free west. They, like Iran, China and North Korea should not be trusted.
duh swami says
I live in the United States Ibrahim…I showed yer post to my neighbors, and after an hour of intense study the only question they asked was ‘what’? They had no further comment…
Avenger says
Ibrahim, the arch enemy of Iran is Saudi Arabia not the US. The Saudi’s who have financial control over much of the US political system which includes past and present senators like B Dole, soon to be dead John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Use the US as a surrogate dog to attack Iran via Syria. I must include every US State Dept under every US President since LBJ too.
Why should anyone in the US resent Putin for using Muslims to antagonize the West?
The US has used Muslim – Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia and Afghanistan to threaten Russia with either Nuclear weapons or to export Islamic terrorists into Russian territory.
I thought Obama pandered to the Sauds, Trump actually kisses their ass.
gravenimage says
The claim that American politics are controlled by Saudi Arabia is ludicrously false.
somehistory says
Ezekiel 38:5 names Persia…Iran…as going against Israel. It also names other countries…some of which now have different names…joining Persia in attacking Israel. “from the remote parts of the north.”
These nations will be destroyed because of this attack. It is no surprise that Russia is helping Iran in this way. But it will lead to nothing good for either nation.
Garfield says
I keep watching what’s going on with exactly what you mentioned in mind.
somehistory says
I find it so interesting that the nations are named and they are doing exactly what was foretold so we who are living in this “time of the end” can witness it and know our faith is not in vain.
David says
somehistory, if the Bible predicts these events and they come to pass, does it look like our lives are pre-determined, and we must just watch the inevitable, like an audience at a play? What’s in the next act?
somehistory says
Prophecy is about nations more so than individuals. But, to make it simple: When Cain got angry with Abel, God told him that if he did not get control of his anger, he would do something he should not do. Cain did not listen and allowed his anger to grow and he murdered his brother.
God warned Cain that sin was waiting for him if he did not get control of his anger, but God did not make Cain refuse to listen. Cain could have acted differently.
In the book of Isaiah, God named Cyrus and said he would conquer Babylon. About 200 years later, Cyrus went to Babylon and took over the city. This allowed the captive Jews to go home. God had seen that Cyrus was going to do this and it was His will that it happen.
God looks ahead to our future and has written what is going to happen. We take notice and when it happens, our faith grows. Each human has freewill to choose his or her course in life.
If we follow the Bible’s advice, esp that given by Christ, on how to live, we will avoid many things that would hurt us. If a person chooses to reject God and His Laws, then what the Bible has to say on that will happen. It is our choice.
God has looked at what the nations will do, guided by satan and his hordes of demons. Individuals in those nations still have free will to choose what to do and not do.
Jesus said nations would go to war, there would be famine, pestilence and other bad things and we see these today. Ezekiel said what the nations would try to do to Israel.
But each person in each nation still has free will to choose..
Carol the 1st says
Sometimes it’s better to live to fight another day. We’re only human and a lot of humanity lies oppressed and milked under grasping creeps like Putin and the Ayatollah – and who knows for whom the bell will toll next?
somehistory says
By the way, David, there are hundreds of other prophecies and history has proven them true.
The book of Daniel has some of the most interesting. Alexander the Great was impressed by what the Scripture there said about him.
One very interesting prophecy was about the city of Tyre and the way it happened that the city was overtaken by her enemies. History books record her fate.
I hope I have answered your question and thanks for asking.
Linda says
All of these moves tell us who Putin aligns himself with in the Middle East. Before this, he was helping al-Assad in Syria.
alex9234 says
And he still is. Assad is a house pet of Russia, China and Iran.
Avenger says
And the US is a house pet for the Saudi’s.
gravenimage says
Anti-Jihadists know that the appalling Saudis are not our allies.
Will you acknowledge the same about the horrifying Shari’a state of Iran?
alex9234 says
Stop listening to Alex Jones. It’ll help.
Avenger says
Sorry dude. Don’t know who Alex Jones is.
Avenger says
Yes gravenimage, Iran’s Sharia is just as horrific as Saudi Arabia’s.
Peter Buckley says
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12246/trump-conditions-iran-deal
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“This is a strategic alliance that Russia is likely to come to regret.” – Robert Spencer
An understatement. Don’t dance with the devil.
As regular JW readers may know I frequently defend Putin’s actions. But there is just no defending this because it is so unbelievably stupid. Krasnodar is just a stone’s (or missile) throw away from the Iranian-Azerbaijan border. You don’t give this technology to a murderous regime, especially when it is right next door. And if this is being done only to make more cash then that makes it even stupider.
Garfield says
Yeah I don’t get this move by Putin…unless it’s some long range thing bc he knows Iran is going down? Bc doesn’t Iran have to go down bc they fund narco terrorist Hezbollah? Also, Iran used to have jazz clubs and a free -er socoety. The people there should have that again, not ridiculous leaders who spend their money funding drugs and terror.
Confusing.
gravenimage says
Yes–a nuclear Iran could easily present a threat to Russia itself.
duh swami says
That Quran 5:33 is directed at me…I’m always warring with Allah, and run around spreading mischief in the land…It’s dangerous for me to go outside without a hard hat due to falling bricks with Allah’s name on them…Warring with Allah and spreading mischief is hard, dirty and dangerous work, but someone has to do it…
gravenimage says
🙂
Davegreybeard says
Ah, swami my brother, I also frequently think of 5:33, as I spread mischief in the land.
But then there is 22:52 where Allah declares “Never did We send a Messenger or a Prophet before you but when he did recite the Revelation or narrated or spoke, Shaitan (Satan) threw some falsehood in it.” Allah goes on to say that he “abolishes” this falsehood, but he does not specify exactly when or how.
So perhaps we are helping to fulfill Allah’s “abolishing plan” after all…
Matthieu Baudin says
Now that the Russian democratic chapter has passed the political leadership are again even more cosy in their relationships with despotic regimes. Don’t be surprised if this pattern of mutuality comes to include the newly emerging Turkish led Caliphate.
gravenimage says
Actually, Putin is playing footsie with Erdogan now, as well.
Peggy says
I think they are all playing footsies with each other.
Saudi Arabia is not better than Iran. Muslim brotherhood is the worst and yet very influential in US. They are all playing a dangerous game with us as pawns.
Seriously, what makes any of those countries worse or better than the other?
Peggy says
Whatever Putin is doing isn’t any more dangerous than what the west is doing. The only difference is that we might be able to do something in the west to change course and can do nothing to change course in Russia. That is up to Russians.
So instead of discussing what Putin does we really should concentrate on what our own governments are doing and what we can do about it.
I don’t like arming Iran with nukes any more than anyone here but there is nothing I can do to change that. All I can hopefully do is make a difference in what my own government is doing or simply not give them my vote and hope the guy I vote for wins.
I sincerely hope that everyone comes to their senses and starts to work together against Islam because if that dosn’t happen we all lose.
US isn’t going to fire nukes at Russia to stop them and Russia isn’t going to fire nukes at US to stop them. Arming each other’s enemies is crazy so let’s pray that they start to realize this and join forces.
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikBZK-sG2A8
Frank Anderson says
These are facts anyone can check about nuclear power plants. I worked as a lawyer with an engineering degree and contract administrator for 3 US nuclear utilities. I was present in the office of 1 of those utilities when a second unit of a nuclear plant was cancelled because it would cost about 4 times more than any other source at the time. The first unit was over twice the cost of competing sources. The “good” deal when it started turned into a monstrous trap before it was over.
1. Nuclear generated electricity is far higher in cost than coal or natural gas. It makes competing in heavy industry impossible because of costs, lower than solar, wind or alternative, and far higher than coal, gas or hydro.
2. Nuclear generating plants in the US use low enriched uranium as fuel, about 3 percent instead of natural uranium which is less than 1 percent U-235.
3. US and all similar designs must shut down for 3 months after every 18 months to shuffle or rotate the fuel to assure even “burning” The reactors in Navy ships do not require this because they use much higher enriched fuel.
4. Under the best circumstances 18 months out of 21 means they work about 85.7 percent of the time, which is far greater than solar or wind generation which is even more expensive. Comparable coal and gas plants are about the same 85 percent as nuclear. Dams depend on how much water is available.
5. The reactor of a nuclear plant has a limited life because of neutron hardening of the steel which holds the pressure and keeps the fuel and water from escaping. Depending on whether it is a “pressurized” or “boiling” water reactor, the reactor must be shut down and removed after between 40 and 60 years. Coal or gas fired boilers with good maintenance can last a lot longer.
6. It costs, by current German experience, about twice as much to remove a nuclear plant as it does to build it, and takes twice as long. Rate payers are paying long after the plant shuts down and long before it starts.
7. There is no reason from an economic analysis to build a nuclear power plant except to obtain the plutonium that is produced as the uranium is consumed. A given fuel element (rod or bundle of rods) remains in a reactor for a total of roughly 3 – 18 month cycles. By the end of the last cycle roughly 60 percent of the heat produced by that element comes from plutonium which can be separated by relatively simple chemistry and used either to produce more reactor fuel or *to make bombs*
8. The yield of plutonium can be increased by using in the reactor heavy water, or even further by using certain metals to cool the fuel instead of ordinary water, which wastes neutrons needed to breed more fissionable material or sustain the chain reaction.
9. The “new-cue-lar engineer” president, jimmy carter, decided the US would be the only country in the world that does not reprocess fuel rods, increasing the long term waste storage problem by about 20 times and increasing the need for uranium resources which Hillary Clinton participated in selling to Russian companies..
9. Only fools with too much money and no sense spend precious resources like this. If this is doubted, look at the current experience of the Southern Company and South Carolina utilities that took up Obama’s guarantee to build 4 nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina-disasters.
Iran is not building nuclear plants to light houses. Those reactors, built and building, and all the tens of thousands of centrifuges are there to make bombs. North Korea supplies their expertise and testing ground to keep from testing nuclear weapons in Iran. Connect the dots. . .
Wellington says
Informative post, Frank. Thanks.
Frank Anderson says
Wellington, Thank you. I do not need to make this up. I have spent in excess of 40 years with some connection to the nuclear utility industry. I met a highly qualified nuclear reactor operator a few years ago who did not know that civilian nuclear plants use weakly enriched uranium and must be shut down as I described. Navy reactors can go as much as 50 years without a refueling shut down. The maintenance costs, capital costs and retirement costs of a nuclear plant are enormous, while the fuel is cheap. Whenever anyone tries to sell *any* source, ask what is costs per unit delivered to you. All the waving of hands and smoke are just that.
Peggy says
. Would you rather repeat the lessons of the past and wait until there are hundreds of bomb craters where cities used to be, that will be uninhabitable for a time, or accept a few targets before that happens? Dead center on an issue can easily become dead center of a target.
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Hi Frank,
The only problem with that is that it won’t be just them to get nuked. It will also be us.
Which cities do we sacrifice? How many lives lost and ruined is enough?
WW2 is a different situation altogether. Hitler didn’t have nukes so a conventional war even though bloody and many lives lost didn’t pollute the environment with radiation.
Let’s not consider anyone else bar Muslims to be our enemies. How about we convince our governments to start looking for allies and partners in this war away from Islam.
We won’t need to risk our own countries that way if we switch who we are allied with. That includes Russia as well. If both countries talked openly and honestly without having to put on this front of how bad each one is because few globalists want them to we would all be better off.
I truly believe that neither side wants to fight but unless this calms down it will get to that.
We all have blame to share so pointing fingers at one another is silly. We all want to believe that our country is good and the other evil. No such thing. We are all puppets of the globalists so why allow them to bamboozle us this much.
Only a few people want war because they have nothing to lose so why allow them to use our lives to make theirs better?
People are similar everywhere except in an Islamic country.
Frank Anderson says
Peggy, the threat, in fact the promise and certainty of nuclear response to a nuclear attack kept and keeps rational opponents from starting war. Islam is not rational. You are projecting your rationality on people who defy reason. Give them enough time and all of us will die at their hands. If they take control of the world as they seek, Nazi death camps will look paltry.
Mark Gabriel, Ph.D, wrote in The Unfinished Battle: Islam and the Jews, that his reason for converting out of islam after being a distinguished teacher of Islamic history at Al-Azhar university, was that if islam is so great, why were 4,000,000 Egyptians slaughtered bringing it to Egypt. “Cowards die many times; The valiant taste of death but once.” The choice is either fight or surrender. There is no “go back home and live in peace” with an ideology that lives for death, slavery, conquest and evil. If your decision is to surrender then get ready for mass murder. Half of Germany’s Jews did not believe what Hitler spoke from his first public address in 1920, what he wrote in Mein Kampf, and what he practiced through the Storm Troopers at every opportunity. They paid dearly.
Islam has been teaching and practicing the same murderous plan and practice for 1400 years, and is the final, complete, perfect and unchangeable statement, There is no choice of peace or war. Islam has declared war 1400 years ago. There is no choice of life or death. Unless one submits to a life of slavery and oppression, there is only death. Whether that death is in battle or in a gas chamber after a long ride in a box car is also a matter of choice. We all must die sooner or later. When, how and why at this point is still primarily a matter of our choice.
gravenimage says
So true, Frank–that a third world nation like Iran that is awash in oil would be developing nuclear plants to generate electricity strains credulity.
Peggy says
I don’t think they want to hide that either.
Problem is what can be done about it? Nuking a nuclear facility seems like a catastrophe to me.
We can’t hurt them without hurting ourselves.
How much radiation would be released and how much would reach us?
We share this planet so we share the consequences of what we do as well.
Conventional war with many lives lost is safer but who wants to pay that price?
I should stop thinking like this. Just got depressed.
Frank Anderson says
Compare the small catastrophe that would have been if the French had opposed with force Hitler re-militarizing the Rhine, whereupon the German Generals planned to kill Hitler, and the ludicrous response that emboldened his further adventures leading to WWII. Tens of millions of people would be alive because tyranny was resisted early. I urge you to spend all the time you need to consider the whining and ruminations of Neville Chamberlain as he sought to appease Hitler totally earning the contempt of the latter. Chamberlain was so afraid of a war that he created it by his fear.
The big problem with radiation is that it is so easy to sense and measure. It can be measured long before it becomes a health issue or deadly. Would you rather repeat the lessons of the past and wait until there are hundreds of bomb craters where cities used to be, that will be uninhabitable for a time, or accept a few targets before that happens? Dead center on an issue can easily become dead center of a target.
Lebel says
“Historically, Islamic states don’t willingly enter into partnerships with Infidels that redound to the benefit of those Infidels.”
Look up Iran-Armenian relations which includes military support on the part of Iran.
Wait, that does not fit the jihadwatch narrative…so never mind.
Savvy Kafir says
Israel should bomb every Iranian nuclear facility until it’s nothing but smoking rubble. And the U.S. should give them the ordnance to do it with. Israel can’t afford to wait until those lunatics have nukes.
gravenimage says
Yes–Israel did this with Iraq back in 1981. Good call.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mad Savvy kafir, Fascist evil zionists know the consequence of such attempt.it means random destruction of the evil entity.
Peggy says
Is it smart to bomb a nuclear facility? How much radiation will spread that way?
Also, don’t forget that Russia has nukes too and they might retaliate. If that happens we are all gone.
There has to be a better way to get out of this mess.
Frank Anderson says
Peggy, if you look at the aftermath of Chernobyl (I believe that translates to “Wormwood” as has been written in some prophecy) the surrounding territory of the plant is uninhabitable for decades or centuries. Fukushima in Japan has a similar exclusion zone for probably a shorter duration because of the containment building around the reactor that Chernobyl did not have. There was a “gentleman’s agreement” among nuclear weapons states that nuclear plants would not be targeted in the case of war. I think there is a righteous question whether that agreement is taken seriously by muslims who seek to kill everyone.
To sit and wring your hands in indecision is nothing less than surrender. I had a treasured uncle who many times had and survived congestive heart failure. Many family members would sit around and wonder what to do. When I arrived, he went to the hospital and got the excess water out of his system to live longer. The choice we face right now is to allow Iran and its close ally North Korea to become armed with large numbers of nuclear weapons which they will use to render many cities and surrounding areas uninhabitable, or to strike their nuclear facilities and render a few off limits. Iran with more than 19,000 centrifuges, all as late and advanced as they can assemble, and North Korea with all its proven resources can construct at least a bomb a week, or more. Adding another reactor to Iran’s capacity to make plutonium under the guise of generating power, also adds another bomb a month or more to their production. How long before they decide to call for the hidden Twelfth Imam. See 1) Islamic AntiChrist by Joel Richardson, 2) Why Israel Can’t Wait by Jerome Corsi, 3) The Apocalypse of Ahmadinejad by Mark Hitchcock, 4) The Iran Threat by Alireza Jafarzadeh.
Hitler came to power and contributed to the murder of more or less 70 million people because of widespread hand wringing and indecision. How many hundreds of millions will die waiting today?
Peggy says
I do get that. Hitler was fought with conventional weapons and Muslims didn’t have any nukes.
I am not saying do nothing but don’t do something which is going to destroy us as well.
Obviously we have to stop Iran from having a bomb but we also have to be careful how it gets done.
It’s too late for Pakistan because they have it already.
If we attack Iran to accomplish this, Russia and China might get involved and we are all toast. We have to be smart about this.
I am convinced that Trump was on the right track while he campaigned and wanted a closer relationship with Putin. The fact that the traitors forced him to abandon that idea by accusing him of allowing Russia to interfere in the elections is very sad. Now he has to prove that he never wanted to work with Russia.
You see, if the west and east start to work together there would be no need to be careful around Muslim countries because both Russia and the US would be having each other’s back and not Iran’s or Saudis”. By engaging in hostilities both have found “allies” in the most horrible places.
There is no point in threatening Iran if we don’t want to pay the price ourselves just like there is no point in threatening US partners unless you want to pay the price.
I can’t want Trump to go after Iran because I don’t want to get nukes myself in retaliation and I’m sure Russians don’t want Putin to go after any US partner because they fear the same thing.
We have to either make it clear to our leaders that we want them to change.
Frank Anderson says
Peggy, I went 12 years to a military school which had a copy in its library of Herman Kahn’s On Thermonuclear War. I read that book and later added a copy to my collection. Another book that could help get a better view of what you fear is The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, published by the US Government Printing Office. I am familiar with the 1977 edition. When tyrannical, suicidal regimes spend enormous and crippling portions of their wealth creating nuclear weapons, they are not making them to display. Hitler allocated more money for weapons production than for “infrastructure”. The “public works” projects were a smokescreen to hide his preparation for world war and conquest. Iran, North Korea, China and Russia have no need to hide their efforts and ambitions. Unless we repeat the lesson of strength demonstrated by the Reagan administration, and convince our enemies that we decide to resist, we will just go down in history with Neville Chamberlain, Louis Daladier and all the other spineless appeasers who enabled WWII. And this time hundreds of millions will die.