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Apr 02, 2026

Editor: The reader has to explore the mind set of Bret Stephens! in his capacity as a fellow traveler of the Zionist Entity, so the circuitous route is an attempe to blind the reader to his actual alligence? Though that well worn path by now is very familier to his reader! These paragraphs denote that attempt. Though a wise elder is aware of his shtick! The first five quoted paragraphs gives the game away!

It’s understandable that America’s NATO allies — bullied, disparaged and threatened by President Trump — hardly want to lift a finger to help the United States and Israel in their war in Iran.

It’s understandable that congressional Democrats — barely briefed and entirely unconsulted — are skeptical of a war the president describes as a mere “excursion,” and seek a partisan windfall in a strategic failure.

It’s understandable that everyday Americans — having been told by Trump that Iran’s nuclear program had already been “obliterated” last June — wonder why they’re paying $4 a gallon to obliterate it once again.

Understandable but misguided. Even the most vociferous opponents of the war have a stake in a military result that leaves the regime in Tehran unable to terrorize its region, the world and, hopefully sooner than later, its own people.

Getting some of those opponents to see the point may be the intent behind Trump’s reported musing to his aides that he may be willing to end the war without using force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president “decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade,” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. “If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait.”

Editor: some selective quotations from this war mongeing advocacy are iluminating!

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Maybe Trump is bluffing, to get more international support to open the strait.

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Editor: The bellicose Stephens call out the Europeans as lacking both ‘will and nerve’ this is grade school invective!

The Europeans lack the means, the will and the nerve to challenge Iran if diplomacy failed — as it almost surely would. And the United States, despite being a net exporter of energy, would still feel the economic hit in a world in which the price of oil is essentially set globally.

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Editor: Stephens then becomes presecriptive is his shaming way:

A better strategy for the administration would be to board tankers carrying Iranian crude as they emerged from the strait and then deliver the seized oil to friendly ports, much as we did starting in December against Venezuela. The principle would be “all or nothing”: Either energy flows freely from the strait, unimpeded by Tehran, or it doesn’t flow at all.

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But whatever the administration decides to do, what isn’t viable is for Americans and our allies to pretend that they can be indifferent to the outcome of the war. When someone like Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, says, “This is not our war,” the appropriate response is: Are you serious?

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“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you” is a line widely attributed to Leon Trotsky. If that’s the case — and history tells us it is — shouldn’t you be interested in winning it, too?

Editor: Stephens continues his prescritive path, yet his experience of actual political power, is any way shape or form is nil! In sum Stephens is a New York Times Zionist who in his final paragraph quotes Leon Trotsky to bait his readership!

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