ultimate ultimatum between threats and world disaster | EUROtoday

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NEW YORK – “An entire civilization will die tonight, never to return. I don’t want it to happen, but it probably will.” Or «something magnificently revolutionary could happen, who knows. We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.” This is because “we now have a complete and total regime change, where different, more intelligent and less radical minds prevail.” One way or another, “47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end.”

This was Donald Trump’s message to Iran, a number of hours earlier than the expiration of his “final” ultimatum, final night time at 8 American time: open the Strait of Hormuz and settle for an settlement or annihilation with more and more excessive and contradictory tones. Apocalyptic threats, able to set hearth to a complete nation with a inhabitants of 93 million inhabitants. And the evocation of miracles of peace, of sudden steps again from the abyss.

Hidden within the rhetorical bombardment is the political drama of a White House engaged in an unpopular conflict, which shakes the economic system and markets, and with unsure outcomes regardless of the firepower deployed by an actual American military. Whatever occurs, the problem for Trump will likely be to current it as a victory: if the Iranian regime survives and controls at the least a part of Hormuz, it is going to be tough to persuade that the prices had been value it, in treasure (200 billion to this point) and human lives (13 US troopers killed and nearly 400 wounded; maybe two thousand Iranians killed, together with youngsters and civilians). If the trail is one among new wholesale assaults, the dangers and accusations of committing conflict crimes will multiply.

The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, the mediator nation, underlined that the threats had been accompanied proper as much as the top by strenuous diplomatic work to search out an appropriate answer: “The efforts are reaching a crucial and delicate stage,” he mentioned. So far with out success, the US had offered a 15-point plan for a complete Iranian renunciation of nuclear weapons and missiles, the Arab mediators a proposal for a brief ceasefire, Tehran a ten-point challenge for a whole finish to hostilities.

But crusading tones dominated. Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, an awesome fan of bloody medieval campaigns and a follower of Christian nationalism, had already introduced up divine parallels the day earlier than. He had in contrast the taking pictures down and rescue of an American pilot over the Easter weekend to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Trump was no exception: he claimed that God is with the Americans “because God is good”. And in a single passage he added: “God doesn’t like what is happening. I don’t like seeing people killed.”