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Right.

By all rights, Europe should take this opportunity we’ve given them to finish off that evil regime - once and for all - and let President Trump focus on putting America first.

But if they won’t do it - and it looks like they won’t - we have to do it.

There’s more than just freeing the Persians and keeping the Straits open at stake here. The Mullahs in Iran are a big part of what’s allowing the CCP and BRICS to hold a knife to our throat.

I don’t want another protracted war, and I don’t want the politics of that worry to cost us the midterms, but I really wish Trump would just go in there and completely wipe the Mullahs out - Europe or no Europe.

I agree with the sentiment that waiting on Europe is a strategic dead end. We have seen this playbook before. European leadership has a long history of prioritizing their own economic and geopolitical interests by maintaining protracted conflicts and sanctions, which ultimately serve to protect their profitable status quo rather than resolve issues.

We saw this clearly during the era surrounding the Gulf War. It wasn’t just about diplomatic maneuvering; it was about the systemic corruption that allowed certain global elites to thrive while the region remained unstable. The infamous ‘Oil-for-Food’ program is a perfect case study of this dynamic—it became a mechanism for these elites to extract massive profits under the guise of humanitarian aid, effectively turning sanctions into a revenue stream.

Moreover, the protection of Iraqi assets was a recurring theme. There were clear indications that European actors facilitated the movement of Iraqi nuclear materials out of the country and into Syria, effectively shielding those assets from international oversight to preserve their own long-term leverage. Whether it is Iran today or Iraq in the past, the incentive structure for European leadership remains focused on managing, rather than ending, these threats if it keeps the regional architecture favorable to their own financial hierarchies. We shouldn’t expect them to act against their own interests, even if it leaves our national security at risk.