### If you think these decapitation strikes on Iran's leadership is a victory

[ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org]

If you think these decapitation strikes on Iran's leadership is a victory

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Yes I know, distraction from the Epstein files, blah blah blah, that's beside the point. Anyone who has been paying attention can see the pattern behind Trump's belligerence, attacking Venezuela and then Iran in the span of weeks: these were the two largest oil producing countries that were also reliable trading partners with China. As many astute political commentators have noted, this has been part of a much larger and longer-term pattern of escalating hostilities toward China by the US, and that includes the self-defeating economic warfare Trump attempted with his tariffs on China in the first few months of his second term.

So you can be sure that China is observing this attack on Iran's government very closely, and taking notes. Although China has nuclear weapons as a deterrent against open hostilities from the US, I'm sure Chinese military leadership are planning for how the same kind of airstrikes the US is using against Iran right now could be used against the leadership of their own government, or even as a possible strategy for a preemptive strike against the US should hostilities escalate to that degree. And you can bet that this has occurred to US military leadership as well, and they are going to become increasingly paranoid and irrational in their stance against China as a result. If the US can do it to Iran, can China do it to the US? The Trump administration will be having nightmares about it for the rest of their miserable lives, I assure you.

China's next move, I am pretty sure, will be to assume an increasingly hostile military posture against Korean and Japan, two countries from which the US would launch strikes against them. Japan and Korea, in turn, will not see China's new military posture as a defense against the US but a threat against their sovereignty (if the US can do it to Iran, why couldn't China do it to Japan and Korea) and further escalate their military posturing.

So this is not going to be just a regional conflict contained within the Middle East, this is very rapidly spiraling into a third world war which will involve the whole Asian continent. Russia is already in conflict with the US via Ukraine, which involves Europe as well. I'm sure the Russians still remember what happened the last time they signed a deal with Hitler when the hostilities in Europe began. If Europe decides to side with the the United States in this new world-wide conflict, which seems to be their default position, Russia will form a military alliance with China, and may choose to carry-out a US/Israeli-style preemptive strike" against military targets in Europe and Asia.

You would be stupid to think if the Iran conflict winds down, regardless of which side wins their military objectives, that the world will go back to normal after this.

So congratulations to everyone who thought "regime change" in Iran was the right choice, all it costed you (so far) was a few hundred American and Israeli soldiers, was it worth it? A few thousand Iranian government executives and the innocent members of their families, was it worth it? A few hundred dead Iranian school children (so far), was it worth it? A commitment to a world-wide conflagration that could potentially kill a billion people including many Americans and Europeans in the very near future. Totally worth it?

I'll say it again: all people of conscience must oppose this war, and demand war criminals in the US, Israel, and elsewhere, be brought to justice, or the war criminals will continue to escalate their violence against more and more people. Americans and Europeans, stop applauding regime change in Iran, and start demanding war criminals be brought to justice before this conflict gets any worse, before the war arrives on your own doorsteps.

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