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Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war
. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months.
Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple.
The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.)
But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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To say Tucker Carlson should be taken with a grain of salt is putting it extremely mildly.
Still 71 million views
A lot of people seem to be thinking about it.
I think I'm gonna throw up
Maybe the DoJ should be investigating Carlson to find who leaked classified information to him... Either that, or like usual, he's full of shit.
He's probably full of shit, but if there is something going on I'm glad its getting notice in time to stop it.
If there's nothing going on then he's trying to create fear and panic and that ain't good either.
Isn't that criminal?
It could be if harm can be established. I think it would be difficult given that Carlson would claim first amendment protections.
I’m no expert, but I don’t think a nuclear bomb would do it, either.
Maybe if they put it right down the hole....
The rock there is folded sedimentary rock, btw, not granite. Sedimentary rocks are not as hard as igneous rocks, and certainly not as hard as metamorphic rocks, but all the same, going through 300 feet would require a Death Star destruction.
Dropping a nuke would be against the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in which the US is a signatory and it would make a lot of dirty desert glass, but it wouldn't take out any of Iran's bunkers.
What would they do to the US if he does drop a nuke? Probably doesn;t matter because Russia and China will incinerate us
We could be looked at as worse than N Korea and isolated politically and economically. Borders could close to travel and trade.
I doubt that. More likely they would be talks between major countries before hand and perhaps at least one of them would say don't do it, or else...
the "else" would get my attention but then I still have use of most of my faculties
Rubio is a weasel, but he's not as stupid as some around Trump.
Which can explain why Tehran calls the USA and Israel "The Big Satan" and "The Little Satan".
Everyone with half a brain knows Israel controls the US
israel only controls americans that are stupid enough to be thumpers and/or maga ...
Trump just announced he's going to stop sending the $4B in military aid to Israel at the end of the year.
Another empty promise....
I think it's about losing his influence with Bibi gone from the top spot. Like taking his ball and going home... and sure, I doubt he can do it, if Congress allocated the money for that specific use.
more face level flatulence from an incompetent moron ...