President Trump is posing a dilemma for historians focusing on the Middle Eastern war theatre. Will history repeat itself? I haven't heard a single European leader speaking against the possible American military action against Iran. This means both US and EU allies can be in a possible war against Iran. Quite like how Allied powers joined hands to defeat the Ottomans in WWI, both US and the EU join hands now to undo what is left of Iran.

I say what is left of Iran, because it is the West that joined hands to execute a maximum pressure campaign against Iran and created circumstances to destabilise it both politically and economically. One big question that the West hesitates to ask and answer is whether the street protests that erupted in December 2025 in Iran were indigenous, homegrown and organic, or whether they were foreign-driven, imposed and a result of Western interference and Western agents that provoked the Iranians to resort to protests against the regime.

In WWI, the Allies used 'Ottoman Empire' and 'Turkey' interchangeably and displayed a marked preference for the latter designation as the war went on, to help fortify the notion that the non-Turkish population of the Ottoman Empire was somehow 'captive people' in need of liberation. Similar to how the Allies are now portraying the Iranians whose freedoms are shackled under the present Iranian regime in a sovereign country and who must be liberated.

History tells us how the Ottoman Empire was made to accept peace terms and history may repeat itself in what may become of others in the Middle Eastern theatre of war. In WWI, Germany and Austria-Hungary........

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