The global consequences of attacking Iran

Under fire from the Iranian retaliation, the Gulf nations are wondering if the US miscalculated, leaving them fully exposed to attack in order to prioritize the protection of its own bases and Israel.

As soon as you step outside the television fiction of the Situation Room set up in a certain club at Mar-a-Lago – complete with a cardboard set of blackout curtains, ringing telephones and a map hanging behind the commander of the “beautiful armada” – it becomes clear that the US and Israeli aggression against the Iranian regime is linking together a number of separate crises and could detonate multiple war fronts. These fronts will expand the longer this first war of the “Board of Peace” era drags on.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks of “Operation Epic Fury” as a mission that puts an end to 47 years of war against the United States; however, he is forced to admit that destroying Iran's military capabilities will not happen overnight.

Trump claims he doesn’t want the war to last too long, but hints that it will. He specifies that he always thought it would last four weeks, gloating that “we are destroying them” ahead of schedule. Hegseth states there will be no boots on the ground, but Trump refuses to rule it out. They emphasize having achieved “air superiority,” but they know perfectly well that this alone has never led to regime change.

While this contradictory push-and-pull goes on, the war has already expanded. And not just due to the involvement of Lebanon: US........

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