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Iran, the last bastion against the eschatological madness of the "civilized" West?

There are no Iranian nuclear weapons, but there are Western leaders, steeped in Christian Zionist messianism, who dream of a biblical apocalypse and see world domination as the fulfillment of a divine mission.

The real nuclear escalation temptation: the shadow of the "Samson Option," that suicidal logic of blowing everything up rather than accepting defeat.
https://progressive.org/latest/the-samson-option-israels-plan-to-nuke-its-opponents-dilawar-20240624/
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nami · 6d
The Samson option is an admition of defeat and includes their own death. They have the will to bring others to their level, but they don't have the bit of dignity that action requires. They will cry begging to spare them for humanitarian reasons and they will offer money, and that only because they ...