[I wrote this probably more than a month ago and then forgot to publish it. It’s still worth a thought.]
Why smart nations don’t let attention-craving amateurs near important buttons.
Former top European Union Iran nuclear negotiator Enrique Mora warned Wednesday that the June 21st U.S. strikes on Iran could be a turning point that makes Iran forego efforts to try to reach a nuclear deal with the United States, and possibly decide it needs to obtain nuclear weapons.
“This unprecedented strike has shown, for the second time, the Islamic regime that nuclear diplomacy is reversible, fragile and vulnerable to changes in leadership in Washington,” Mora wrote in Spain’s Politica Exterior magazine. “There will not be a third time.”
“If Iran now decides to move towards a bomb, it will do so following a clear strategic logic,” he wrote. “No one bombs the capital of a nuclear-armed country. June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.” [“Trump turns Iran strike intel into loyalty test,” Laura Rozen, Diplomatic]
But I suppose this is the inevitable result of a decision-making process of a narcissist who doesn’t really believe anyone else is a human being. Think of his frantic attempts to reverse progress on several fronts, such as military force composition and the names of the military bases. The very idea of change beyond Trump’s control will terrify him.
And it’s a symptom of serious psychological disease.
