Conrad Black - Final Phase of Iran Conflict Appears in Sight, Followed by Seismic Shift in International Relations Led by Trump

 Unless a political miracle occurs, Iran will miss President Trump’s revised deadline — April 6 — for progress in negotiations, and the United States and Israel will begin the complete destruction of Iran as a modern state, including the elimination of its electric power capacity and the complete cessation of its oil exports and the closing of its ports as tightly as its airspace.

This condition can be maintained at moderate material and human cost to the allies indefinitely until some post-theocratic spokesman for the overwhelming majority of Iranians who want nothing more to do with the Islamic Republic emerges from the rubble to agree a satisfactory peace.  While that devoutly wished consummation is awaited, the United States can reopen the Strait of Hormuz and alleviate fears of world oil prices. There is no reason why it should not charge a modest fee to its so-called allies that have refused to be of any assistance at all in this process, and apply that fee to the reduction of oil prices within the United States.

The Iranian-directed invasion of Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023, has now escalated to the verge of a seismic shift in international relations and the correlation of strategic forces in the world. The North Atlantic Treaty has been less than useless in this crisis, and its denial of its airspace for America’s purposes may be considered the suspension of the Alliance itself; that is not how allies behave.

The North Atlantic alliance has just waffled and apart from its admirable secretary general, Mark Rutte, effectively pretended that there was moral equivalence between America, which rescued Europe in both World Wars and the Cold War, and the principal terrorism-sponsoring country in the world, Iran.

At the same time, the American Democrats and most of the American press made little secret of their hope for Iran’s success in humbling President Trump. This is the same diseased political mentality that has transformed the Democratic Party into a cheering section for criminal illegal migrants over those responsible for the integrity of America’s borders.

And also for the admission to the United States of unlimited numbers of destitute and unskilled persons, an electoral voting and vote-counting system that is wide open to fraud, for biological males in women’s sports, for an elementary education system reduced to disorderly daycare under the corrupt teachers’ unions, and for the effective promotion of crime as a wealth-equalization measure through the defunding of police.

All but one of the Democratic senators are on record that Iran is not a threat to the United States. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives says the conflict with Iran “makes no sense.” The Western Alliance is now essentially a gaggle of hypocrites who would prefer to appease terrorists to secure their oil supply and no longer act upon any distinction between terrorist-supporting and opposing states. Their long-cherished idea of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is that America does the work and takes the risks and the “allies” give the orders.  Mr. Trump is effectively waging a battle for America to return unequivocally to a bipartisan consensus in favor of the responsible national interest of the country. At the same time he is trying to resurrect the Western alliance as an association of democracies where each country pulls its weight and on the fundamental principles on which the alliance was founded: all for one and one for all.

What the president is doing is nothing less than a heroic combat for great and necessary objectives. He is about to preside over the destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran, victory in the war on terror, the reconstruction of Gaza with the cleansing of terrorists from Israel’s borders, and a showdown with NATO, which should probably include the expulsion of Spain and Turkey.

Now that Trump is able to replace Russia as a supplier of oil and gas to Western Europe with Venezuela and the Middle East, the absurd era of Europe financing Russia’s war through its oil and gas purchases while beseeching America to save Ukraine, will end. Mr. Trump is about to be in control of half of Communist China’s oil supply and has already detached or neutralized Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran as Russo-Chinese allies.

As soon as the Ukraine war ends with the sovereign independence of that country recognized in slightly reduced borders to allow for historic Russian interests, the United States could make a more satisfactory alliance with Moscow than it has recently had with Western Europe. President Vladimir Putin would have to clean up his thuggish playbook in exchange for a reduction in sanctions, and Russia would find the United States a much better ally than China.

With Ukraine’s sovereignty established, there are few natural abrasions between the United States and Russia. Unless the principal NATO powers have a remarkable return to their senses, that alliance should probably be reconstructed as a mutual support arrangement between Western Europe as a whole and Canada, along with the United States, while Russia and America sign a non-aggression pact.

Europe could then try to revitalize the European project from its present stagnant Davosian fairyland. Then Mr. Trump could complete his containment strategy opposite China with India and Japan and other regional powers with Russia transformed from a Chinese vassal to an authentic neutral. The War on Terror would have been won and there would be peace in the Middle East at last.

At some point, and in time for the midterm elections, the American public has to figure out what a menace the contemporary Democrats are to any sane definition of the national interest. Their president can help them with that.

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