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Posted on 03/22/2026 9:06:06 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Israel launched a major attack on an Iranian gas field this week, prompting retaliation by Iran against Gulf States, a threat to global energy supplies and a surge in fuel prices. President Trump first insisted the United States “knew nothing about” the strike, then later backtracked and said he warned Israel against attacking the complex.
His attempt to distance his administration from the strike underscored the diverging aims of the United States and Israel as their war against Iran grinds on.
As a superpower with global responsibilities, the United States cares deeply about global energy supplies and the safety of its Persian Gulf allies. And with crucial midterm elections later this year, the Trump administration cares deeply about the rising price of gasoline in the United States.
But as a regional power, Israel has different strategic aims and more narrow concerns, analysts and former officials say. Israel has its own natural gas, little dependency on the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has a chokehold on the transport of fuel, and no responsibility for the free flow of global trade. The stakes for Israel are higher than for the United States, since it sees Iran, sworn to the destruction of Israel, as a clear danger, both from its nuclear program and especially from its ballistic missiles.
Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. Middle East negotiator now at the Carnegie Endowment, said: “We are a global power and they are a regional one. So their threat assessments create a different set of objectives than ours.”
That divergence is inevitable, said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert and director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. Not only are their goals fundamentally different, she said, but “the costs the two sides can bear are even more different, especially over time.”
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More trash from the NYT. Ignore and move on.
NYT trying to drive a wedge between the US and Israel?
Different priorities? Really? A tiny state within striking distance has different priorities from a massive country on the other side of the world? Wow, who’d have thunk.
Posting more fantastic leftwing analysis, I see
Yet, the NYT always shows it’s priorities.
The Israelis fully realize that unless there is regime change and the enriched uraniumis secured, this war will have been for naught. The mullah regime will recover, they will build more sophisticated longer range missiles, acquire nuclear bombs and seek revenge.
Its ironic the most cogent explanation of Iran's position comes from China, which fears losing Iran as an ally and source of energy.
weird that the NYT is as Jewish as Jewish gets. They sure can’t stand one another.
NYT having been anti-American and anti-semitic for years and years (and years!) has finally figured out a headline (as imaginary as it may be) to attack (or rather, just undercut, take snipes at) both USA and the Jews....two birds with but a single (headline) stone.
Like, aside from its crossword puzzles (yes, we know, “name a president who was born in Hawaii”)...and some of its New York theatre reviews......... is good only as bird cage liner.
The USA and Israel have almost identical goals in neutralizing (forever) the Iranian nuclear bomb, ICBM, and terrorism building abilities. As for regime change, both countries (and the nearby Arabs) want to see the Iranian people succeed in establishing a peaceful, sane government. Whether they can do this or not, I cannot know. But the allied bombing includes as many of the dictatorship’s rulers along with as much of the internal state police (the ones that have already murdered some estimated 40,000 Iranians in the streets)... as possible. Weakening the leadership and the enforcement elements of the crazy dictatorship. At some point, maybe this weakening WILL enable the Iranian people to secure their futures again. We don’t know, but it is logical. And we can hope.
It seems only logical. Common sense. Don’t get hung up on where it was published or who said it.
3 weeks in and the war grinds on.
No bias there.
I always go to the NYTimes for my political information. After all...they are the newspaper of record.
Differing objectives are not necessarily incompatible with each other. In fact, some of these approaches that are emphasizing given strategies are interlocked and may have a strong synergistic effect.
Iran War Plan, developed in 1979:
Destroy Israel
Destroy America
Become martyrs for Allah
Time frame: perpetual, until the goals are accomplished.
Surrender: Never
Yes, and there’s the endgame, the destruction of the entire world and the return of their precious Mahdi.
God save us!!
Trump:
“Gulf States Deliver Final Warning to Iran: Back Off or Face Consequences
Riyadh has drawn a red line. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan confirmed that Gulf leaders issued their last warning to Tehran following a high-level summit. The message is blunt: stop hitting our infrastructure with missiles and drones, or we will respond—even though we have stayed out of the wider US-Israel-Iran conflict so far.
Pictures circulating from the meeting show Netanyahu side by side with MBS and MBZ, fueling speculation of a quiet anti-Iran realignment. Gulf capitals are watching closely. They calculate that if the current war drags on another two to three weeks, they may have no choice but to step in directly. That would almost certainly disrupt global energy markets.
Many observers remain skeptical the Gulf will actually follow through. Past campaigns, especially in Yemen, exposed serious limits to their military reach and staying power. Iran’s missile arsenal still outranges anything the Gulf can reliably counter from its own soil.
For now the ultimatum stands. Tehran has been put on notice: the patience of the oil kingdoms is not infinite.”
Allies never see 100% eye to eye. Read Churchill’s history of WWII, you might wonder if we were in the same war.
The mid terms are when folks around here finally figure out why this war was a disaster for the US even though it was an outstanding victory for Israel.
Yeah. We are all waiting with bated breath to see what the New York Times has to say about military operations anytime or anywhere.
Not.
good ol’ NYT trying to drive a wedge into any alliance or group that might make america great again and/or weaken any leftist fascist group or organization that hates the USA ...
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