Netanyahu made this threat/warning/promise before, was this the same occasion? Speaking to the Knesset in Hebrew, with the camera rolling? Probably.
It’s understandable that things can escalate but the situation Israel and the US are in now seems to have been completely predictable, except for those reading the information through a heavy filter.
As I may have said before it’s hard to see what Israel is playing at; there isn’t much surprise at Iran’s uber-robust response to its attack, and it was not obvious that Israel could withstand that; so what was its Plan B? And the White House warheaders?
If this is their intent now, it must have been all along. Ending Iran as a force in the region by hook or by crook - and if maybe somehow they won the war against the Iranian leadership (that is to say, against almost all the Iranian people) and thereby spared the very worst, so much the better for them. But now it seems we are where we are.
This is a terrible threat albeit, fror the moment, far away. In terms of the blame, from a personal point of view the worst thing about this is you can’t just put it down to a few insane criminals in the White House and Israel. Despite not being crazy, western governments, politicians, parties, media and institutions have offered willing, almost slobbering political support to what is, for anyone with a semblance of a brain and conscience, pure evil. We have the concurrent Palestinaian genocide in Gaza as another example.
Given the intent seems to beat a path towards Russia and China its hard to see them standing still. Galloway offers a reasoned guess at Russia’s ‘best move’, after such an attack - step on to the brink with a protective threat of its own. It’s obvious that the crazies do not intend to stop there anyway.
Guess it may not happen but at the moment I can’t see what’s in the way of it.
Galloway’s suggestion may not be the only option; Russia could make the same move (Galloway;s suggestion was that Russia might extend the nuclear umbrella to Iran) in advance of any nuclear attack on Iran.
As Putin is not known for messing about, that would normally stop the thing in its tracks. But of course you can’t predict anything with these crazies, who, void any real human concern, see little at stake but their own stupid power games.
