Ruthless Criticism: Trump’s America vs. Iran
Von webmaster • Juni 27th, 2025 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Criticism: Trump’s America vs. Iran
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Trump is determined to prevent Iran from “getting the bomb,” a view he shares with all his predecessors in the office of US President. They have always viewed the prospect of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon as an unacceptable threat to the USA. Not in the sense that their sacred American territory would be vulnerable to an Iranian nuclear weapon, but in the sense that it would diminish their imperial control over relations of sovereignty and violence in the Middle East, including America’s freedom to deal with this avowed enemy of America’s global and regional hegemony.
Trump wants to force Iran to face the choice of either agreeing to a deal that meets his need for a guarantee that Iran will not arm itself with nuclear weapons for all eternity or reckoning with Trump having to blow up everything that his military experts identify as part of an existing or future Iranian nuclear program. He leaves no doubt about the relationship between the two options: He repeatedly emphasizes that he is making the threat of destruction so massive and so credible in order to spare America from carrying it out and using the double weapon of sanctions and the threat of war to push Iran’s leadership to give up its nuclear program – or any part of it that he defines as intolerable.
Trump wants to victoriously end America’s enmity against Iran, with emphasis on “victoriously” and “end.” In his capacity as a real estate mogul, he is certain that Iran will ultimately have no choice but to surrender, given the contrast between “the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Riyadh and Dubai” and Tehran’s buildings that are “collapsing into rubble and dust.” (Address to the Saudi-US Investment Forum, May 13, 2025) And in his capacity as supreme commander of the US dollar and military power, he knows that he has all the means at his disposal to inflict, if necessary, the damage that America’s military can’t possibly want on the recalcitrant Tehran leadership with sanctions – “maximum pressure” – and with the constant Israeli threat of war, which America’s war powers freely calculate with and is unpredictable to anyone else.
Recommended readings:
Notes on a new type of asymmetric war (GS 1-20)
https://ruthlesscriticism.com/trump_iran.htm
Comments on D. Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran (GS 2-18)
https://ruthlesscriticism.com/JCPOA.htm
Why and how the United States wants to get Iran to give up its nuclear program (GS 2-12)
https://en.gegenstandpunkt.com/article/why-and-how-united-states-wants-get-iran-give-its-nuclear-program
