Democratically Tainted American Perceptions Aside - Does a Nuclear Iran Present All That Much a Threat to European Security Vis a Vis NATO?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 7, 2022 at 14:38

For all intents and purposes, Israel is the priority target of a nuclear Iranian Islamic Regime; and now that allegiances militarily with the Russian have been established, Israel makes more sense in not wanting to exacerbate further incitement in the region by taking a greater stance regarding the Ukraine so as not to increase the already high tensions being demonstrated by the Russian. Even as the there is some regression on the ability of the Russian incursion to hold territory, the efforts there are not yet diminished to the point of conceding the Ukrainian action as a loss. In fact, that it has yet to be demonstrated the Ukraine was the Russian's only target remains to be seen. Medvedev let a Freudian slip reveal that what the Russians are looking at is a more involved globalistic agenda than many think is at stake. Were it merely the Ukraine, then American would not be on alert for the various air and sea boundary taunts occurring more frequently in htese last couple of years than in the last twenty years.
America is no longer all that ready nor vigilant for what is brewing and spewing circumnavigationally and in a little while, the tensions now being tested are more certainly pressuring for a break somewhere.
The Iranian Islamically driven tendencies towards using the proxies have insinuated themselves in the Regime's alliances with a frustrated Russian and the determination of acceptable losses are in actuarial evaluation as it is being promoted in evidences globally. The outcome of the 46th American Administrative Chief Executive's upcoming electoral poll may provide the actions of a desperate leadership that knows no limitations of bringing vengeance on a unsympathetic electorate and allowing a no hold barred calamity to befall the perceived enemy within: the American 'we the people.'
The Iranian Islamic Regime will be more than willing to take advantage of any lapse they can get from an America that no longer represents a threat of nuclear response. Then it all boils down to an Israeli response.
Then Europe will be forced to react after the Russian acts in its alliance with the Iranian Islamic Regime; let us not forget Turkiye's interest in this as well.

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