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Not insisting on civilized dealings in international relations is a form of self-revelssion that Trump will also interpret as a weakness. And that will encourage him to further excesses of this kind.

(S+) Historiker über US-Interventionen: »Mischung aus Selbstüberschätzung und Selbstverblendung« Der misslungene Irakkrieg müsste Donald Trump eine Warnung sein, sagt Historiker Bernd Greiner. Er hält den Angriff auf Iran für eine Machtdemonstration. Und sagt, was Europa jetzt tun sollte.

Greiner: Nevertheless, Europe should consider its strengths and say that the USA is waging a war of aggression against Iran that violates international law. If this objection is omitted, there is nothing left that we do not accept.🧵

Europe's experience in curbing nationalism, the willingness to divide sovereignty and the will to renounce violence. Not to worge now comes down to a self-weakening, which could still take its revenge.

(S+) Historiker über US-Interventionen: »Mischung aus Selbstüberschätzung und Selbstverblendung« Der misslungene Irakkrieg müsste Donald Trump eine Warnung sein, sagt Historiker Bernd Greiner. Er hält den Angriff auf Iran für eine Machtdemonstration. Und sagt, was Europa jetzt tun sollte.

Greiner: The reaction of the great European powers is a tragedy. France, England and Germany give Trump free rein for fear of penalties such as tariffs, in the mistaken belief that they can appease him. Europe is wasting its greatest political capital:🧵

(S+) Historiker über US-Interventionen: »Mischung aus Selbstüberschätzung und Selbstverblendung« Der misslungene Irakkrieg müsste Donald Trump eine Warnung sein, sagt Historiker Bernd Greiner. Er hält den Angriff auf Iran für eine Machtdemonstration. Und sagt, was Europa jetzt tun sollte.

Greiner: That doesn't convince me either. From the beginning, he was a brutal power politician, who always oriented himself to what opportunities were available to him. There are no political principles behind this, but the will to bare power and to intimidate others. #Trump

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and perhaps even attack opponents such as Hezbollah, Hamas or the Houthis in Yemen. And after that, a perspective would open up to transform the Middle East to his personal advantage, for example to make money in Gaza.

Greiner: We can assume that Trump does not care about the Iranian people at all. I believe that he essentially believed that Iran is currently a weakened opponent, which he can give the capture shot, so to speak,🧵

Trump wants to show everyone, including Beijing and Moscow, that they are dealing with someone who, in case of doubt, uses all the means of power to enforce his will. With all that you have to accuse George W. Bush of, this form of megalomania was not inherent to him.🧵

Greiner: Trump has the idea of bending this world to his will, to be able to shape it with his coercive means. He acts like a mafia boss: blackmailing, intimidating, pushing into the corner and in the end imposing what he wants.🧵

In exaggerated terms, it can be said that this coup has been the starting point of politicized Islam, as well as for the mobilization of anti-Western affections in Iran.🧵

Greiner: The 1953 coup against Mossadegh was a kind of Big Bang that resonates to this day. At that time, the US, by means of the CIA, the first democratically elected President Mossadegh away because he wanted to nationalize Iranian oil production and sought foreign policy neutrality in Cold War🧵

Greiner: I had a kind of déjà vu: As a historian, you remember the disastrous policy of the USA towards Iran since the early 1950s. This mixture of overconfidence and self-delusion, which Trump now shows, existed before, although not with the catastrophic exacerbations as now.🧵

(S+) Historiker über US-Interventionen: »Mischung aus Selbstüberschätzung und Selbstverblendung« Der misslungene Irakkrieg müsste Donald Trump eine Warnung sein, sagt Historiker Bernd Greiner. Er hält den Angriff auf Iran für eine Machtdemonstration. Und sagt, was Europa jetzt tun sollte.

"Trump acts like a mafia boss"

The failed Iraq war should be a warning to Donald Trump, says historian Bernd Greiner. He considers the attack on Iran to be a demonstration of power. And says what Europe should do now.
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❗️Ukraine will help fight Iranian Shaheds: Zelenskyy instructed to present options for support to the relevant states and to provide assistance in a way that does not weaken our own defense here in Ukraine.

Ukrainian experts will work on-site, and teams for this are already being arranged.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Held a meeting on the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region.

The Iranian regime, which is trying to survive despite everything, poses obvious threats to all states in the region, as well as to global stability. No state next to Iran can feel safe.

This erosion of international law is truly worrying: justice has given way to violence." Vatican's number two after Pope Leo XIV called for "conflicts to be resolved in a bloodless and fairer way". This should happen with the ways of »diplomacy within multilateral bodies«.