Not really. Because no one in Europe wants to bomb Iran into oblivion, if for no other reason but the fact that the Europeans (and Turkey) would face another massive refugee crisis.

The only people wanting to continue this war are the U.S. and Israel (and maybe Saudi Arabia?) and even Trump is clearly looking for an off ramp.

This is most likely a way for Iran to tell Europe to do what they can to end this otherwise they will drag Europe into this mess as well.

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DoctorOetker 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

False: I live in Europe, and I most definitely want Iran's ICBM, nuclear, weapons, etc facilities to be bombed to smithereens. I welcome the news every morning when I read about the exponential decay in absolute numbers of Iran's rockets and drones fired. It will take time until the last caches are depleted, but this intervention seems surprisingly cheap until now. Seeing how this evolves, its not just puzzling that this didn't happen before, its also saddening: if it was this easy to bring Iran to it's knees, a Hamas-less Gaza or Hezbollah-less Lebanon would have been spared the genocide Gaza endures now, and the instability in Lebanon now...

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bigfatkitten 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> and maybe Saudi Arabia?

The war is extremely bad for business for Saudi Arabia and has already cost them enormous amounts of money. It is causing damage to their oil refineries that will take years to repair.

The only person who gains anything out of this is Netanyahu and his friends. Everyone else loses, including the Israeli people.

	▲	srean 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is so because of Iran's choice of targets. SA might have misjudged that their business assets would be attacked. There is some chatter that crown prince supported and approved the assassination of Khamenei and possibly supplies supportive intelligence. They haven't been exactly friendly with Iran. The odd ball is Qatar. Qatar had been working hard to have friendly relations with Iran. So I was surprised by Iran's attack on Qatari interests.

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big-and-small 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Europe to do what to stop the war? EU cant even stop war on their own borders. And we seen what Trump buddies think about EU in their leaked Signal chat.

Also it's not like EU and UK actually have any military capacity to bomb Iran even if they wanted because again everything they do have is going to Ukraine already.