There has been speculation that the current U.S. Administration will orchestrate an attack on Iran in order to divert attention from the ICE raids and the Epstein files.
Unfortunately, at the moment, the ICE raids and Epstein files are diverting attention from the massive U.S. military build-up in the regions surrounding Iran in order to facilitate such an attack. The U.S. has two aircraft carrier groups in the region, and is massively increasing air assets in the area as well.
It seems very unlikely that Iran will bow to U.S. demands in order to avoid such an attack, as these demands, which include not only the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and the end of its support for regional proxies, but also the destruction of Iran’s long range ballistic missiles. The latter would leave Iran near defenseless in the face of Israeli aggression. The U.S. Administration, after having moved sizable military assets to the region, might feel compelled to act if Iran refuses U.S. demands.
This is serious business. In response to a U.S. attack, Iran has vowed to strike both Israel and U.S. military assets in the region. This will have an escalatory effect. Meanwhile, Russia, and China are engaged in joint naval operations with Iran. While it seems highly unlikely that either Russia or China would come to Iran’s aid, other than material aid, war has a logic of its own, and things could escalate out of control.
Increasingly global “leaders” carelessly talk about tactical nuclear strikes and survivable nuclear war. This careless rhetoric increases the possibility of such a war and makes it even more urgent the U.S. stays away from possible triggering events.
The U.S. citizenry is rightly focused on both ICE raids and the Epstein files. The possibility, however, of global war on a large scale, triggered by events in Iran, is real and deserves equal, if not greater, attention from the understandably tired U.S. mind.
It is important that Americans pay increased attention to the dangers and risks associated with an attack on Iran. These risks include not only the horrors of war, but also the possibility that attention will then be diverted from the ICE raids and the Epstein files, which also rightly deserves the American public’s attention.
Now is the time to speak out against a U.S. attack on Iran.
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You may also be interested in the essay: “What’s Up With the Iranians”. The essay, published in 2020 and revised in 2023, provides a good historical background to U.S. Iranian relations.
https://peaceframes.us/index.php/2020/02/03/whats-up-with-the-iranians/