The common refrain out of the EU right now as Iran is being violated by the US and Israel’s giant missiles, is that it’s time for Tehran to just sit back and take it, and then reason with the attackers.

“It is essential that the war does not spread any further. The Iranian regime has choices to make,” said the bloc’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas. ”The Iranian regime must understand that it now has no other option but to engage in good faith in negotiations to end its nuclear and ballistic programs, as well as its regional destabilization activities,” added French President Emmanuel Macron.

France, in particular, has long hyped its support of the EU’s so-called feminist foreign policy, described as “a framework that focuses on adopting a gendered perspective in dealing with a state’s external action and diplomacy.” Does that mean when you’re walking by a guy unzipping his ballistic weapon and forcing it on a weaker nation – the exact same guy who keeps threatening to grab you by the assets – you stand there cheering him on while telling the victim that they asked for it?

“France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have consistently urged the Iranian regime to end Iran’s nuclear program, curb its ballistic missile program, refrain from its destabilizing activity in the region and our homelands, and to cease the appalling violence and repression against its own people,” these countries said in a joint statement. “We condemn Iranian attacks on countries in the region in the strongest terms. Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes.”

That’s quaint. Europeans pretending that Trump and Netanyahu........

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