In the aftermath of the October 7 attacks and the devastating conflict that followed, the international community faces a stark dilemma: How can the world
i think we will know more in the next few days. worth remembering, just under a decade ago in 2016, the u.s. military struck houthi targets very similar scenario. and the houthis backed down. they stopped attacking shipping. go back to the late 1980s, iran was blocking shipping coming out of the arabian gulf by mining the strait of hormuse. in the operation praying mantis destroyed a fourth of the iranian navy. they got the message at that point. we may be in forore attacks, but i know the pentagon has more targets upheir sleeve. i do want to draw line under the coalition aspects of this. very important to track that. it s not just a nato coalition. there are gulf nations in this, arab nations, australia, new zealand, pacific nations as well as traditional nato allies are involved in all of this.
Iran is aiming to set the Middle East on fire and destabilize the world economy. To disrupt the ayatollahs’ plans, Biden must establish escalation dominance over Tehran as Reagan had done.