RE: Iran/USA21 May 2026 21:40
Fordm,
Saying “everyone gets one or no one” sounds neat, but it is not a foreign policy. It is a suicide pact with better branding.
I do not disagree that the US has a heavy military footprint around Iran. That is obvious: the US has facilities across the region, including Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq and others. That absolutely feeds Iranian threat perception. But recognising that fact does not magically turn nuclear proliferation into wisdom. It just explains the pressure; it does not justify lighting the fuse.
Iran is also not some passive monastery minding its own business. Modern power projection does not require a tank column crossing a border. Missiles, proxies, funding, training, cyber activity, and regional leverage all count. So “Iran never left its region” is not the winning point you think it is. It is geography pretending to be strategy.
And on nukes, the whole point of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is that non-nuclear states accept safeguards so civilian nuclear work is not diverted into weapons. That system is imperfect, but the alternative, every threatened state racing for a bomb, is far worse.
You can criticise Washington. You can criticise London. You can criticise Israel. You can point out hypocrisy, overreach, double standards and decades of bad Western decisions. Fair enough. But “Iran needs nukes quick” is not anti-imperialism. It is just replacing one dangerous doctrine with another.
The serious answer is not “bomb Iran”, and it is not “give Iran a bomb.” The serious answer is de-escalation, inspections, deterrence and hard diplomacy. Because once nuclear weapons become the preferred answer to fear, every regional dispute becomes a countdown timer.
Have a good evening too. But slogans do not become a strategy just because they are angry.
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