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The Face of Mutually Assured Destruction

Haifa, Israel. Image by Svetlana Klaise from Pixabay
Haifa, Israel. Image by Svetlana Klaise from Pixabay

The Cold War, marked by historians mark from 1947 to 1991, saw a sustained state of political and military tension between Western Bloc powers – mainly the United States with NATO – and powers in the Eastern Bloc – mainly the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact countries.

The two superpowers never directly engaged in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily, in preparation for an all-out nuclear World War III. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that lowered the risk of an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker. This was the doctrine of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD).

As well as the development of the two sides’ nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, propaganda and espionage, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.

This cold war kind of ended. However, the West is busy, like a busy bee, developing a new cold war that will be between Iran and Israel and other countries in the Middle East that who will join the nuclear proliferation race.

Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel will not be the first one to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East and will not be the last one.

Here is an excerpt from a Piers Morgan interview with Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu:

MORGAN: Do you have nuclear weapons?

NETANYAHU: Well, we have a longstanding policy that we won’t be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, and that hasn’t changed.

So where do we stand now in comparison to where the USA and the Soviets stood not too long ago?

Iran wants to have hegemony over the Middle East and for that it needs to have the ability to spread fear and intimidation. It is working to do just that by developing nuclear power for nuclear arsenal purpose, building Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and preparing conventional military forces for combat. Iran’s struggle for dominance is expressed via spreading terrorism around the world, the use of proxies, such as Hezbollah and Hamas and others, psychological warfare, propaganda and espionage.

While Iran is doing all that it can to become the nuclear power it needs to be, so it can achieve its desired hegemony goal, the West, again, is begging the terror spearheading country to stop its nuclear ambitions.

Really, why should they, especially now when Iran is so far into achieving its nuclear ambitions?

Sitting across the table to beseech Iran to stop its nuclear ambitions is like asking the bully to stop what he does best, bully others.

I object to the idea that the world will agree to live with a nuclear Iran. The good people of the world must see to it that Iran dismantles all its existing systems that would allow them to become nuclear power.

The time frame is short. We must stop falling into the net of Iran’s lies. We must prevent Iran from going nuclear and there is no partial option.

Israel cannot live under the same conditions of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States of mutually assured destruction. Iran is not Russia.

During the 2006 second Lebanon War, Nurit Greenger, referenced then as the “Accidental Reporter” felt compelled to become an activist. Being an ‘out-of-the-box thinker, Nurit is a passionately committed advocate for Jews, Israel, the United States, and the Free World in general. From Southern California, Nurit serves as a “one-woman Hasbarah army” for Israel who believes that if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

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