Andrew S

For almost a year, the Pentagon has withheld $400 million in congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine, aid passed on a bipartisan basis for one clear purpose: defending a democratic ally under attack. Why is the Pentagon delaying authorized aid to Ukraine? When Congress acts, that commitment should be honored. Ukraine deserves our assistance — not endless Pentagon delays.

This is the global cost of past appeasement. It is the compounded interest on decades of Western appeasement of the Islamic Republic. Particular U.S. administrations and European governments legitimized and empowered the terrorist regime, while the IRGC kept building missiles, funding proxies, and plotting assassinations in Western capitals and holding one of the most pro-west, educated, peaceful populations hostage. None of that western relief was felt by the Iranian people. It only went to Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and every other instrument the regime uses to project terror and coerce its neighbors. The Iranian people were left to face IRGC bullets alone, their pleas for solidarity met with diplomatic silence from the very governments legitimizing their oppressors. Iran deal (JCPOA) kicked the can on the nuclear issue down the road while giving regime relief to terrorize the world and the Iranians. Biden admin relaxed the sanctions and got played by the regime's so-called smily-face diplomats while the IRGC was building drone factories in Venezuela and arming Hamas and Hizballah to teeth. President Trump inherited this. He didn't create the Strait of Hormuz crisis, he walked into a situation where a terrorist regime had been given 20 years of financial oxygen, strategic depth, and international cover to get exactly here. Maximum pressure, zero oil, and refusing to offer the regime another lifeline is not the cause of today's pain. It's the only serious attempt, by any Western leader, to finally end it. and the regime in Iran is the main beneficiary of the false narratives such as the one below.