INITIAL THOUGHTS. U.S. Hits Iran’s Suspected Nuclear Arms Sites.

Response to Facebook Chats: “The U.S. is at war!” 

THE truth is, the U.S. is never being "at war." Proxy wars, actual participation, invasion, and stuff. The Afghanistan war was U.S. vs the Taliban. The Ukraine war from Feb 2022 is U.S. war vs. Russia. U.S. arms have been used for Israel's war with everybody in the Middle East since 1948. And remember, in Trump I, he dropped MOABs in Afghanistan and Syria (2017) then he took out Islamic State's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2019) and Qasem Soleimani (2020).

The media didn't declare those as "the U.S. joined the war." Difference with Trump with other POTUSes is he tries to balance Washington's traditional or historical hawkish foreign policy with his trade talks and obvious thumbs-down of NATO and he's not so hot with military aid unlike the other prez’es. 

       But the cold fact remains: No U.S. president ever ignored the hawks of Washington who stay as the strongest power in America. Then they were pretty much Republicans; these days, many Democrats joined them to uphold America's military brinkmanship. The closest POTUS that we'd say is anti-war or pro-peace (besides Trump) is Jimmy Carter. But Jimmy armed the muhajideen and started the long Afghanistan war, which Barack Obama heightened with more military aid and the installation of a U.S.-educated prez (Ashraf Ghani). Mr Obama also upgraded U.S. military aid to Israel in 2016. BTW, Mr Carter also upped the anti-war rage in Iran in the 1970s by coddling the fallen dictator Shah Pahlavi. Of course both Jimmy and Barack got the Nobel Prize for Peace. 

       Anyways, I hope that this Israel/Iran war ends per U.S. strikes at the latter's alleged nuke weaponry plants. (Hey, 9 countries--including the US and Israel--have their own warheads or nuclear weapons. But those can't be touched?) If this is 2016, things would have been different per Iran. 

       Iran is now a member of BRICS, had normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, and Tehran's top trade partner is now China. Iran's friend Syria has also rejoined the Arab League. Also, expect the hardliners of Iran to pump up Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah. Hoping though, with China's intercession, this war will not escalate. Or Trump totally loses his leverage with his trade talks with China as he wastes his other economic deals with Saudi Arabia et al as well as his trade projects in the new post-Assad Syria. Bibi? He is nothing but the bogeyman and he just put his people in more danger. ☮️☮️☮️