“No one is remotely serious about any of it...”
Israel will act. Netanyahu will do something, I don’t think he has much of a choice...
The problems spawned by Carter in 1979 will come back to haunt us. Problems must be faced and not permitted to fester like like this. Time will force us to take out Iran and the Mullahs. Lets hope that America will have the will or power to do it. Maybe we should just let Putin have Iran.
Israel is not going to attack in sufficient force to end any of this. Iran is going to get nuclear weapons, and the world is going to sit around and watch.
The US has an ascendency over Iran in every military sense that makes direct action against them easy and assured of success. But no one in the US is calling for such an action. We are deterred. Israel is five times as deterred. They aren't going to move a muscle.
"But that can't happen, because it would be bad". Please review the history of the 20th century and revise your assumptions about the impossibility of stupid courses of action resulting in military and humanitarian calamity.