Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "iranian threat" video.

  1. The Americans will never reward atrocities by descaling or pulling back. Right or wrong, that’s just not how they do things. And, given that Iran is the universal link, supplying weapons to Hamas in the Middle East and supplying Putin with his missiles for his war in Ukraine, the Iranians seem to be deliberately seeking escalation? America will see it as solving a lot of problems at once, if they can neutralise Iranian threats at the source. These events will crystallise such thinking in the minds of American decision makers, I would have thought. Biden would need something tangible (offers up front) before he would even consider risking the optics of shuttle diplomacy in the light of the deaths of American service personnel. While there will be others, both within and without his own party, calling for embargoes to cut off their supply chains. Iran is at the heart of the two most destabilising events in world affairs right now. I cannot say what I would do in Biden’s shoes. His intelligence reports may cast a whole other light on things. But I do know, as does he, that words alone will not be enough.
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