I'm surprised Israel are potentially looking at a strike on Iran's oil facilities with the tacit approval of the West. This will undoutedly fuel inflation and I thought inflation was enemy number one not Iran!?
It will cause more than inflation, CC. The Iranians will shut off the Hormuz(which transits around 30% of oil consumed in the world). It would be akin to, or worse than, the Great Depression of 1929 according to many and I agree with that assessment. Any Western involvement will lead to all US bases in the region(around 30,000 troops in various bases) being attacked in non-defendable bases. Israel will have no infra-stucture left should they target any Iranian infrastructure. The Zionist state is tiny and heavily reliant on its Air Force. It cannot match the Iranians in missile/rocket tech in quality or quantity. Iran is vast and has a number of population centres and hundreds of power plants. Israel by comparison have few. How will Israel reach all these targets 2,000 or so km away? Planes that will have nowhere to land when they return? if they return? (reports of S400's transferred to Iran). Iran, on the other hand, can send missiles to Israel that take less than 12 minutes from take off to arrival( of which they have probably thousands, as well tens of thousands of non hypersonic missiles.), as already demonstrated. They have effective Iranian developed AD as well as Russian which they demonstrated in their take down of the US AWACS plane in 2019. Iran have yet to reveal all of their hand.
The matter of the accuracy of Iranian missiles is only doubted by idiotic western propaganda masquerading as reportage. Their "knowledge" of Iranian missile accuracy is simply repeating what the IDF told them to say. You should be more sceptical of un-evidenced, dubiously sourced Western media pronouncements, Roch.
What we know so far of Iranian missile and AD tech would suggest that Western media are being economical with the truth(lying! whoda thunk it). There have been a number of very public demonstrations of Iranian missile accuracy and power. Those demonstrations have always carried an important message, deliberately ignored by western so-called media and governments, but well understood nonetheless.Any one of those attacks could be larger by a magnitude or more if Iran chooses. This is understood.
The game's up and all the Western Empire has left is terror and killing civilians, scorched earth policy as a negotiating tool. It is clear to most of the world, outside the censored and propagandised West, that Empire has been defeated militarily. Russia has shown NATO to be a paper tiger. IDF have committed genocide but not defeated Hamas. They have evacuated over 100,000 settlers from the North for months now because of Hezbollah. Despite killing Nasrallah + others and bombing hospitals, medics, children and civilians in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, the Zionist baby murderers are predictably faring less well in their ground incursions into Lebanon where they meet the most battle hardened, well equipped and organised militia in the world.
Empire, in whatever guise, has no effective moves left that don't put them in a worse position. Ground incursion by Israel into Lebanon will end worse than their last attempt in 2006. Western involvement would only make it worse. Hezbollah are much stronger and IDF much weaker since 2006. Bombing Iran infrastructure means goodbye Israel and all US bases/interests in the Middle East and whatever predictable and unpredictable consequences of that may be. A ground invasion of Iran is not even remotely possible(the geography of Iran makes it very defendable- surrounded by mountains). This is what also makes the AnsarAllah in Yemen(Houthis) undefeatable and next to impossible to invade.
Israel attempting to or using nukes would be the end of them.
We are in troubling times and our so-called leaders simply aren't up to the job. There is no statemanship or diplomacy left in the West. All western diplomatic corps are a rabble and an embarrassment to their countries still attempting threats on their former colonies who are throwing off the shackles and turning to Russia, China and the larger BRICS union and multi-polarity.
The Russian SloMo SMO and Iranian and Chinese "strategic patience" in the face of western aggression and provocation has exposed the unmasked face of Empire to the rest of the world. The longer it has gone, the more it has worked against Empire and turned the global south against Empire and towards Russia, China et al. What was portrayed as weakness by western media, was always strategic patience and intended to weaken support for the Empire, as well as bleed them out militarily and economically. It is working a treat.
