RT by @anapalacio: This sounds incredibly significant yet I haven't heard anyone speak about it.

This is Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, admitting a few days ago that Iran is now a "nuclear-threshold state", meaning "it's beyond our capability by any surgical intervention to block them from turning into nuclear power, it's up to them to decide when and how they'll decide to do it [...] It's not up to us."

He says no-one dares speak about it because if Iran were to say it, they'd bring more sanctions on them and if Washington did "the public would ask 'how comes it happened? What are you going to do about it?'"

Unexpectedly he doesn't believe it's actually a threat to Israel or the U.S.: "The same way that North Korea never thought of dropping a bomb on South Korea or Japan or America in Guam... they're not idiots: they don't want to be thrown back into the stone age, it's about the survival of the dynasty, it's not about bombing the world... They will not dare throw a bomb on Israel, in another neighborhood or on America."

Of course anyone needs to take allegations of possession of weapons of mass destruction by geopolitical ennemies of the West with a MASSIVE pinch of salt. And it's significant that he says "it's beyond our capability by any surgical intervention to block them", meaning he probably believes they could be blocked with a non-surgical intervention, i.e. an actual war. This might be part of the reason why we hear calls by Netanyahu and many U.S. officials to launch such a war... BUT he also says it isn't a direct threat to Israel, which I doubt he'd say if he revealed this as a justification for an upcoming war...

In any case, I thought this was significant enough to share. A nuclear Iran, no matter where you stand, IS a significant geopolitical revolution and, even if it's not true, the narrative of it is also consequential.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/RnaudBertrand/status/1722434165243867162#m

[2023-11-09 02:01 UTC]