Trita Parsi – Responsible Statecraft Dec 30, 2025
During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump said that he will allow Israel to attack Iran once again to strike its ballistic missiles.
But what exactly does that mean? Will the U.S. be involved in the actual strikes? Will it “limit” its involvement to shooting down Iran’s retaliatory missiles?
If the former, Trump is not just “allowing” Israel to strike; the U.S. will actually be at war with Iran. This would be a betrayal of his promise to his base to keep America out of wars (he has, of course, violated that already).
Moreover, unlike the nuclear program, which incorporates a small number of known facilities, the missile program is spread throughout the country in a large number of hidden facilities, many of them probably unknown to the U.S./Israel.
Thus, Trump will likely not be able to frame this as mere “military action” rather than war. Nor will he likely be able to negotiate with Tehran a limited Iranian response since the missiles are Iran’s last line of defense — the last leg of its deterrence.
Tehran has gone to great lengths to avoid a military confrontation with Washington, but just because it has shown restraint in the past does not mean that it can afford to do so in this scenario. Indeed, given that Iran will be totally exposed without its missiles, it will likely reckon that it has no choice but to strike directly at U.S. targets.
Even if Trump opts to “only” support Israel defensively in yet another Israeli choice of war — which is the position Biden took — it nevertheless incentivizes Israel to restart war, as the U.S. is lessening the cost for Israel to do so.
The cost to the United States is great even in this scenario. Washington depleted 25% of its THAAD interceptors in the course of 12 days this past summer — for Israel’s war of choice, in a region four American Presidents have declared no longer is vital to U.S. national security.
As I wrote last week, every time Trump caves to Netanyahu and agrees to another war, it only prompts Israel to come back to Trump after a few months with another war plan for Americans to give their blood and tax dollars to.
This will go on endlessly until Trump decides to end it.
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Britain’s death rattle is by design. And the hourglass is about to run out
– Lee Cohen
The plan to crush the UK and then absorb it into europe is well underway
Adolf Hitler predicted this and wanted Britian to join forces in a protective manner
As I look back on 2025 and the progress America has made under President Trump, I am filled with both hope and sorrow. Hope for the lessons learned on my side of the Atlantic, sorrow for my beloved Britain, where each passing month seems to bring further erosion of the nation with Starmers import of yet more migrants. Fireworks may have lit the skies over the Thames, and Big Ben may have chimed with its familiar defiance, yet for millions, the year ends not as a celebration but as a grim continuation of surrender.
From across the Atlantic, the sight is heartbreaking. What once seemed like incompetence now looks deliberate: a governing class hollowing out the nation, one quiet concession at a time.
open Borders to import toerag migrants, scam vaccinations crime surges
no free speech, and the people’s consent are quietly dismantled. Great nations do not always fall in flames — they are erased, layer by layer. This is an American warning: awaken people before Britain totally disappears.
Does Netanyahu have dirt on the Donald that keeps his balls firmly and inescapably in a vice? The chain has been well oiled because Trump and all the rest of them in the files were suckered by Epstein, who worked for Mossad, who work for Netanyahu. Go figure.
Pinky and the brains I used to live that cartoon. Here on one side you have trump who is, for obvious reasons pinky. The other hand you have bibi the brains everyday their plan is to rule the world and everyday the plan fails.
Blackmail , bribery and outright lies are the usual methods used by Israel to stampede their American ‘cattle’ to fight their wars of aggression. America has been totally captured by this group of satans children who are currently bathing the world in blood and fire . Our so called leaders including Trump the chump have totally sold Americans to the synagogue of Satan .
@ FAT FRED
what ever ruins EU + NAhTOd is very wellcome !
…………………………….neardeath…………………