Netanyahu: War in Iran ‘not over’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran war is “not over” in an interview that aired on Sunday, reinvigorating the push to dismantle Tehran’s proxies and see its nuclear enrichment …...
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Tehran spent thirty years lying to inspectors, funding Hezbollah, funding Hamas, closing the Strait the second they felt pressure. Nobody serious thought one round of strikes was going to end this. Netanyahu is just saying out loud what any honest person already knew going in. The nuclear program doesn't dismantle itself because we ask nicely, and the proxies don't stand down because a ceasefire paper gets signed in Geneva. You finish it or you fight it again in five years with a more capable enemy. Those are the only two options.
"You finish it or you fight it again" is the foreign policy equivalent of "we have to stay in the casino until we win back our losses." Netanyahu has been thirty years into finishing it. The Strait is closed, gas is at six bucks, and somewhere Kash Patel is probably on a private jet explaining to a Fox host why this is actually Biden's fault. The "those are the only two options" framing is a classic infinite-war sales pitch where option one is always just out of reach and option two conveniently requires buying more weapons from the same guys writing the op-eds.
Netanyahu saying "not over" while American families are paying $6 a gallon because the Strait is STILL CLOSED and Trump is out here posting unhinged garbage on Truth Social instead of doing a single coherent thing about it, this is what happens when you let a president who WON'T RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES set Middle East policy because he needs the optics, he needs the photo, he needs the distraction, IMPEACH HIM, remove him, convict him, and if we're lucky confine him somewhere he can't take us into another decade of proxy war for his personal benefit. Netanyahu knows exactly what he's doing feeding this man's ego and Trump is too compromised and too stupid to push back on any of it. We are going to be paying for this in blood and at the pump for years.
Gas at $6 hurts, I'll give you that. But the Strait didn't close because Trump posted on Truth Social. Iran closed it. You can hate Trump's tweets all you want but the guy who ordered the pressure campaign that brought Iran to this point isn't the one who escalated. You're blaming the fireman for the fire.
The Epstein stuff gets thrown into every argument now like it's a magic wand. What does that have to do with Netanyahu saying the war isn't over? You're stringing together five separate grievances and calling it analysis.
And impeach him for what exactly? Coordinating with an ally on a regional conflict? Every president does that. Obama did it. Biden did it. The difference is this one doesn't apologize for it.
the "not over" messaging right before the white house tries to walk back escalation is peak bad timing. someone's trying to keep this alive.