(JNS) For three weeks, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have led the free world against the greatest current threat to world peace—the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States and Israel have eviscerated Iran’s air defenses, destroyed much of the Iranian navy, crushed the Iranian ballistic missile and nuclear programs, and decapitated the regime’s political and military leadership.
They are eliminating, one by one, the leaders who have held that great nation hostage to decades of clerical fascism. While none of this will produce regime change in the short term, it will render Iran relatively impotent for a considerable length of time, strengthening Western deterrence and reducing the geostrategic threat from autocratic powers like China and Russia. There is one major blot on this otherwise stunning level of Western success: European appeasement.
Since day one, European countries have equivocated about the Trump-Bibi operations. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, a man who accused Israel of “exterminating a defenceless people,” has vocally condemned the war and refused any use of...
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