Ruthless Criticism: Chronicle of an announced Peace: Trump’s 12-day war in the Middle East
Von webmaster • Okt. 19th, 2025 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Criticism: Chronicle of an announced Peace: Trump’s 12-day war in the Middle East (October 2025)
[Translated from GegenStandpunkt 3-25]
On June 2025, the time has come – the world gets to witness a double premiere: For the first time ever, the Iranian nuclear program, long contested by the West and its Middle Eastern outposts, becomes the target of an open air war by the Israeli Air Force; and for the first time, Trump orders the long threatened deployment of the US Air Force directly against the Islamic Republic in case the nuclear diplomacy he has initiated with the Iranian leadership fails.
From “finally!” to “oh my God, oh my God!”, the usual commentaries are delivered by the usual parties, and after the deed is done, the usual experts get to express their unconditional satisfaction with its military-technical quality and weigh a few problematic aspects of its international legal dimensions. Trump celebrates his military, i.e. himself, in his familiar way, and his great victory can’t be denied even by those who begrudge him his success and so are once again seeking and finding some flies in an essentially delectable ointment.
What remains somewhat overlooked is the real progress made in terms of Trump’s programmatic realignment of American foreign policy, i.e., the world according to America’s newly defined interests and imperatives – and the accompanying lesson about the beautiful thing called peace in America’s world.
1. A long-term, heartfelt hostility: The USA, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear program
2. Trump’s now traditional criticism of his predecessors: wrong ends weakly pursued
3. The other half of a hostile three-way relationship: Israel’s hostility to Iran and its (anti)nuclear alliance with the USA
4. A fine piece of diplomacy: bilateral negotiations on issues that are non-negotiable for both sides
5. Trump can get serious: Israel’s “Rising Lion” and America’s position and contribution to it
6. Trump takes the gloves off himself – and it’s over: America’s “Midnight Hammer” comes down on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Israel’s ambition to destroy Iran.
https://ruthlesscriticism.com/12_day_war.htm
Chronik eines angekündigten Friedens: Trumps 12-Tage-Krieg (GS 3-25)
Im Juni 2025 ist es so weit – die Welt darf Zeuge einer doppelten Premiere werden: Zum ersten Mal überhaupt wird das seit langer Zeit vom Westen und seinem nahöstlichen Vorposten bekämpfte iranische Atomprogramm zum Objekt eines offenen Luftkriegs seitens der israelischen Luftwaffe; und zum ersten Mal befiehlt Trump den für den Fall, dass die von ihm eröffnete Atomdiplomatie mit der Teheraner Führung scheitern würde, lange angedrohten Einsatz der amerikanischen Luftwaffe unmittelbar gegen die Islamische Republik.
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/artikel/trumps-12-tage-krieg
