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Ask yourself why the US barely mentions North Korea these days?Never threatens to go to war with it or threatens to invade it? Quite simply, it has nuclear weapons.
Iran was offered many things by Russia and it turned them down. Granted that's their choice.
If Iran had possessed nuclear weapons itself the US and Israel would never have started this war. Precisely why as said earlier, North Korea is left alone.
What is being missed by many commenting on the post below is there is a world of difference if Russia offered Article 5 protection against DIRECT US and Israeli attacks, precisely because they are nuclear powers. That changes the rules of engagement totally.
What changes the entire dynamic is when two nations in a DIRECT conflict BOTH have nuclear weapons or are protected by nuclear weapons.
Whilst we are at pains to state that Iran has every right to defend itself and sadly unless we state the blindingly obvious, there are going to be people who infer we are suggesting otherwise. There is something that needs to be said. It would have been better for Iran if this war never happened. Because what is largely overlooked is not only how does this war end but how will there be lasting peace? Who seriously imagines an agreement signed by the US and Israel is going to end this conflict once and for all? By telling them to be good boys and leave Iran alone. Don't be ridiculous.
Rather like Russia is now finding, ending the war in Ukraine and finding a lasting settlement which will endure is extremely difficult to achieve.
People seem to think that war is the answer to achieve lasting peace. It is far better to never have a war starting in the first place.
The only language the US understands is a nuclear deterrent. Just ask North Korea.
To those who constantly cite Ukraine as though that contradicts what is stated above you are clearly not paying attention to what has actually gone on there for the last 4 years.
Ask yourself why there is a back channel open with Washington constantly doing everything to avoid escalation with Moscow.
If you think the INDIRECT role the US has played in Ukraine warrants a nuclear exchange between the US and Russia you don't understand real world geopolitics nor the actual role the US has played in the Ukraine war. Never has the US remotely posed an existential threat to Russia in the last 4 years. That is critical and poorly understood.
China has demonstrated that you can end an hegemonic power without firing a single shot.
Nations still don't grasp that true deterrence is the only answer. Wars solve nothing. In fact they do the exact opposite.
Instead of focussing on why Iran has every right to defend itself, focus on what should have been done to prevent the US and Israel attacking Iran in the first place.
Hence why Iran did indeed make a big mistake as stated below.