WhatsappHit them where it hurts. Donald Trump understands that this applies to Iran more than anyone else. Iran is run by Ayatollahs who will lose power to a revolution if the people of Iran are starving. Even the supporters of the Ayatollahs will stop supporting the regime if there is no money in the regime to take care of their corrupt connections to the radical Islamic leaders of Iran.
Donald Trump genuinely does not want Iran to buckle via an attack. He wants Iran to buckle from economic pressure much the way that the Soviet Union fell apart from the inside due to economic pressure from the United States.
Donald Trump views the economic warfare policies of Ronald Reagan as the wisest fashion to combat the bad actors of the world. Similarly, without the finances to move things forward, Vladimir Putin will simply run out of the ability to keep his war machine going. But the cost of gas and oil is the critical aspect for Russia. In order for Russia to suffer, the price must drastically drop. That explains much of the fawning policies that Trump has been engineering vis-a-vis Saudi Arabia.
President Trump wants Iran and Russia to be suffering economically in order to facilitate change in these countries. It is risky business, but it is sound policy. Israel though cannot err when it comes to nuclear threats. Excpect Benjamin Netanyahu to make a decision one way or another before the second year of Donald Trump’s Presidency. If the Iranian threat continues to grow, Netanyahu will order an attack sometime around the midterm elections, when Donald Trump’s popularity and power may very well be far less than it is today.
But if the economic war that Donald Trump is engineering succeeds, the entire Middle East may become markedly safer without necessity of any more shots being fired at Iran.
