An X post from Rob Schneider on the potential consequences of US involvement in Iran:
The cruelest of ironies is that what could finally undo and destroy the Presidency of Donald J Trump isn’t biased Democrat Lawfare, or paid boomer protests, or District Court judges nullifying his Executive Orders, or Rino Republicans refusing to pass his (bloated) Big Beautiful Bill, a “stolen election” or even an Assassin’s bullet.
What could finish off the 47th President’s agenda for good will be if he goes against his gut and drags America into another Middle East quagmire of blood, and wastes more trillions of American treasure like his predecessors.
War with Iran would be Trump’s Afghanistan, his Vietnam, and ultimately his political Waterloo.
Iran is a Theocratic dictatorship that sponsors terror but has invaded not even one country. They are not Iraq, which until relatively recently, was not a unified country but a group of rival tribes before it became a British colonial construct.
Besides Iran being “the crossroads of civilization,” they are much more homogenous, roughly 2/3rds Persian ethnicity and didn’t bend a knee of break when attacked by Iraq during their 10 year bloody war. They fought tooth and nail for their very survival.
And their 90 million people will fight for their survival again.
It was Britain, and (funded by) the United States that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mossedegh in 1953 by using hired mobs in a coup that lead to the installation of the Shah Pahlavi’s 27 year reign of authoritarianism and human rights abuses. All in the name of Iranian Oil.
So here we are again. If American foreign policy is anything, it is immune from learning or even acknowledging recent history from either political party, leaving millions dead in it’s willful ignorance and arrogance.
I am praying that our President doesn’t start another war.
President Trump could still be our Abraham Lincoln but if he ignores history and our recent military misadventures, he could also end up being another George W. Bush, or God help us, a Republican version of Barack Obama.
Yours truly, Rob Schneider
This was posted about a week ago, several days before Trump ordered for the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. Now that the die has been cast, we can only hope that things don’t turn out as grim as Rob Schneider’s predictions.
I also find it curious that both North Korea and Iran made efforts to develop nuclear weapons decades ago. North Korea, which has succeeded in its quest for nuclear weapons, now gets largely left alone by the US and the west. Iran, which has failed to develop nuclear weapons, is in the position it is in today, getting bombed in an unprovoked manner by Israel and now the US.
Ukraine had nuclear weapons but relinquished them back on 1994, and look at the situation they are in today. It seems to me that regardless of what the mass media, the United States and Israel clamor about how nukes are bad or are a threat to peace in general and hence nobody (be it Iran or whoever else) should have them, what nukes ultimately do is help protect the sovereignty of the nations that own them.
It feels rather silly for the US and Israel, two nations known to have nukes, to bomb Iran over unproven allegations of its nuclear capabilities – both morally hypocritical, and a weird repetition of the “weapons of mass destruction” used as an excuse for the US to invade Iraq back in 2003.
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