Israel struck back against Iran in a highly anticipated retaliation on Thursday night. The dust has cleared and we now know what happened: Biden was humiliated. Despite the damage from the attack, the real fallout was the further damage done to the Biden presidency!
– Israel retaliated against Iran following Iran’s bombing of Israel, but the attack was limited with no significant damage reported.
– Reports indicate Iran’s measured response may signal a new geopolitical order, with Iran using advanced missile guidance systems and forming alliances with Russia and China.
– This development challenges US influence in the region, highlighting Biden’s weakness observed by both sides of the conflict.
Israel has retaliated against Iran for Iran’s bombing of Israel last weekend but it appears that the attack was very limited. There were original reports that Israel was targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities particularly a major military airbase near Isfahan, but Iranian officials have released video footage of Isfahan this morning, showing that there was no significant damage and that life is carrying on as normal. All sides are trying to avoid a major escalation!
Israel couldn’t be happier to widen this war into a conflict with Iran, however measured, because, of course, America hates Iran. We are still very bitter over the way Iran humiliated us on the international stage back in 1979 with the hostage ordeal. So Israel knows that by dragging Iran into the conflict, all of sudden the criticism of the Israeli-inflicted genocide and mass starvation in Gaza goes silent when it comes to Washington officials.
It appears that Netanyahu wants the US to provide the cover he needs in order to conduct a multi-front war that wipes out their enemies in the region. The Portuguese scholar Bruno Maceis has a very good piece in the New Statesman entitled: ‘The Iran Attack Changes Everything.’ This piece talks about Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel back on April 13th. Maceis contrasts the last time missiles were sent into Israel, back in 1991, when Sadam Hussein launched a barrage of Scud missiles towards Tel Aviv and Haifa, and this latest missile attack from Iran. Today, as back then, Washington was trying to convince Israel not to retaliate and risk escalating the conflict into a broader war in the Middle East.
Israel was told to ‘take the win’, as Iran’s attack was not that serious and was more of a ceremonial retaliation against Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which no Western country has yet to condemn. But had Iran really wanted to inflict massive damage on Israel, the 13th of April would have looked very differently. The response was measured, and Israel appears to have shot down the majority of the missiles via their Iron Dome, with their own air defense missiles.
We see the similarities between what happened back in 1991 and what happened a few days ago. As Maceis points out, there’s also a key difference between the two attacks. In 1991, Washington was heavily militarily engaged in the region, promising to destroy the missile launchers in Iraq. American forces were positioned to destroy the threat, whereas now, Biden in his complete and total incompetence, is completely impotent in destroying the military capabilities of Iran. Any spread of this war would skyrocket the price of energy and guarantee Biden’s loss in November!
That leads Maceis to the observation of how the Iranian attack against Israel last week really changed everything. It signaled the rise of a new world and a new geopolitical order. Iran always relied on proxies to carry out attacks on Israel on behalf of Tehran, and Biden thought that warning Iran with that stupid one-word warning: ‘Don’t,’ would be helpful. Biden was relying on the fact that Iran has up until now relied on proxies like Hezbollah to carry out attacks on Israel, so he thought he could make himself look like he was in control.
As of last weekend, Tehran completely humiliated Biden by acting with a new boldness that profoundly damaged Israel’s own sense of security. Iran was pushed into a corner. Two weeks ago, Israeli forces struck an Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria killing seven military advisers including three senior commanders. The strike was a clear escalation in Israel’s war against Iran’s regional proxies particularly in Syria as well as in Lebanon via Hezbollah.
The strike forced Iran to retaliate. Both their international and domestic credibility was on the line. Iran responded, but they responded in a way that was very strategically savvy. They launched a very measured yet dramatic response. This was the first missile attack on Israel from another country afar since 1991, so this was certainly a big deal, but it was measured. It stammered Israel’s sense of security and forced Washington to pressure Israel to refrain from retaliation in order to avoid a wider regional escalation, which Israel has just ignored!
The fact that Iran attacked Israel after Biden’s one-word warning and the fact that Israel retaliated against Iran after Washington expressed that they were against it suggests that both Iran and Israel see Biden as a joke. They both see Biden as an abject clown and don’t take him seriously. Both Israeli and Iranian leaders took Trump very seriously. By contrast, no one today gives Biden the time of day.
The geopolitical reporter Pepe Escobar has a fascinating piece detailing how the Iran strike against Israel signaled the rise of a whole new world! He detailed how Iran’s missile guidance system used both the Russian and Chinese satellite navigation systems to carry out the attack. It was a clear statement that Iran had two very big friends who were willing to come to its defense if necessary. Iran now belongs to both the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS+ along with Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Iran has many allies, with Russia and China being the two biggest.
Russia and Iran, particularly, are very close. Their relationship began after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and this was largely due to the resurgence of religious sentiment in the renewal of Russian Orthodoxy within the Federation. Scholars have recognized that Russia and Iran are among the nations that represent a rising post-secular world, where ancient religious traditions are returning en masse and effectively reshaping their politics from geopolitics to what we might call theopolitics. This alliance grew even stronger with the eruption of civil war inside Syria in 2011.
Both Russia and Iran were concerned that the Syrian civil war would result in a pro-Western, pro-NATO regime, and were both determined to stop it. Both countries provided crucial support to the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad, while pursuing their own strategic interests in the region. Iran has been a longstanding ally of the Syrian government, primarily due to their shared geopolitical and ideological interests. Syria serves as a crucial link in Iran’s regional influence, providing a land route for the transportation of weapons and supplies to Hezbollah.
Russia and Iran’s cooperation in Syria deepened significantly over time. They coordinated their military activities and shared intelligence to support the Assad regime’s military operations. The Russian military provided air support to Iranian-backed ground forces, facilitating their offensives against opposition groups and terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State (ISIS). In return, Iran allowed Russia to use its air bases to conduct airstrikes in Syria.
The alliance between Russia and Iran grew even stronger when the US and Western nations imposed a blitzkrieg of sanctions against Russia in retaliation for their invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions were so intense that they were three times greater than the sanctions levied against the world’s second most heavily sanctioned country, Iran. Both Russia and Iran suddenly became respectively the number one and number two most financially sanctioned states in the world.
This massive economic isolation caused the two nations to grow closer together, both economically and militarily. Russia is not going to sit back and allow Israel and the West to destroy Iran, and Iran knows that. This is why they had no problem retaliating against Israel! All of this means that Bumblin’ Biden has lost the plot. The Biden administration is in shambles. The liberal world order that they’ve been so desperately trying to hold on to is slipping through their fingers. The world is operating increasingly irrespective of anything Washington has to say, and we’re seeing that right now in the Middle East.
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