One reason European NATO nations aren't getting involved right now is Trump's ideas are nuts. part of the reason they are especially nuts for European nations is all Iran has to do is to add the range on some of it's missiles and drones to attack places like Italy and Greece and Spain and France. Europe is very aware of this and doesn't want to be attacked by Iran on behalf of Putin because of Ukraine. and neither would you if you were that close to the middle East.
The middle east to Europe is as close as parts of Mexico are to the U.S. to give you some perspective here!
and this will soon be navigated by Shahed Drones of the next generation built in Russia! So, the Mediterranean side of Europe is very potentially vulnerable to the next longer range version of the Shahed Drones built in Russia and given to Iran by Putin. If this happened Putin would be very happy to weaken all of Europe in this way!
This being on top of the Weakening of All economies on earth by 20 to 30 dollar per gallon gasoline or more!
So, right now PUTIN has the whole world by the balls regarding Oil through Iran! and he likes this a lot!
for example, Tehran to Rome is 2771.316 miles and Shahed Drones can already go 1000 miles or more before detonating somewhere based solely on GPS location of the target autonomously. (without a human interaction of remote driver or pilot.
Based
on reports covering the period from February 28, 2026, to early April
2026, Israel has been targeted by a high volume of missiles and drones,
with hundreds of such projectiles fired by Iran and its allies.
Total Projectiles (Feb 28 - Late March): The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) reported that over 550 missiles and 765 drones were launched by Iran at Israel between Feb. 28 and March 27, 2026.
Initial Assault: On February 28, 2026, the first day of the conflict, Iran fired approximately 428 ballistic missiles towards Israel and neighboring regions.
Impacts and Interceptions: While a high percentage was intercepted, at least 31 significant missile impacts were recorded in Israel, including on critical infrastructure sites.
Ongoing Attacks: As of April 1, 2026, the attacks have continued, with Iran launching a new, heavy, coordinated strike involving over 100 missiles and 200 attack drones.
Daily Averages:
After an intense initial surge, the strikes fell to roughly 10-20 per
day in early March, before surging again in late March/early April.
In
addition to Iranian strikes, Israel has faced daily drone and rocket
attacks from Hezbollah in the north and sporadic attacks from the Houthi
movement in Yemen.
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And likely to the same effect where this will drag on for 10 years or more just like Ukraine. Why?
Iran isn't stupid. They are defending their whole belief system which goes back to the beginning of Islam in the Middle East. They are a 4000 to 5000 year old civilization.
Trump is threatening to permanently destroy their civilization so they are fighting for their lives (from their point of view.
So, now, Russia is supplying these drones and missiles to Iran to use on "All Countries in the Middle East) which is at least 14 countries right now which includes Israel.
So, the logical result of all of this is 20 to 30 dollar a gallon Gasoline worldwide for some time to come.
Once again Iran doesn't have to win this war it only has to outlast and financially break it's aggressors like the Taliban Broke NATOS will after 20 years or so which is also similar to General Washington breaking King George III's will because he was also at war with France at the same time as with the 13 colonies.
What made me more fully understand all this is Trump is planning to do the same thing to Iran that Putin is doing to Ukraine by blowing up their Electrical Generation systems (especially during the winter so everyone will freeze to death.
Because Trump is a lot like Putin in how he does things, unfortunately. So, I guess Trump is turning the U.S. into a Rogue State that NO ONE can respect but everyone can be terrified of sort of like Putin in Russia.
Stephen
J. Rapp, who served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues
from 2009 to 2015, said he was disturbed by Trump's threats to Iran if
it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz and agree to end the war the United States and Israel launched a month ago.
"It makes us a rogue state," said Rapp, who served as chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunalfor Rwanda from 2001 to 2007 and the chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
from 2007 to 2009. He and two other experts in international law who
spoke to NBC News said Trump's threats alone could represent a possible
war crime.
Stephen
J. Rapp, who served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues
from 2009 to 2015, said he was disturbed by Trump's threats to Iran if
it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz and agree to end the war the United States and Israel launched a month ago.
"It makes us a rogue state," said Rapp, who served as chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunalfor Rwanda from 2001 to 2007 and the chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
from 2007 to 2009. He and two other experts in international law who
spoke to NBC News said Trump's threats alone could represent a possible
war crime.
On Monday, Trump
said that if an agreement was not reached and if the Strait of Hormuz, a
key trade route through which 20% of the world’s oil supply passes, was
not immediately reopened, he would destroy civilian energy
infrastructure “and possibly all desalinization plants," which he said
the U.S. had "purposefully not yet ‘touched.”
“Great
progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly
reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not
immediately 'Open for Business,' we will conclude our lovely 'stay' in
Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric
Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all
desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched,””
Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Tehran has denied progress in talks.
Oil tankers and high-speed craft anchored at Muscat Anchorage, Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.Elke Scholiers / Getty Images
Trump
said the attacks would be carried out "in retribution for our many
soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old
Regime’s 47 year 'Reign of Terror'."
Asked
for a response to some experts' assessments that Trump’s comments about
targeting civilian infrastructure risk turning the U.S. into a “rogue
state,” a White House official said, “The terrorist Iranian regime has
brought upon egregious human rights abuses for 47 years, including
brutally killing its own people for merely speaking out against its
oppressive rule. By achieving the military objectives stated under
Operation Epic Fury, President Trump is making the entire region safer
and more stable by eliminating Iran’s short- and long-term threats to
our country and our allies.”
Trump,
who is expected to address the nation Wednesday night for an update on
the war, said Tuesday that the U.S. planned to leave Iran within two or
three weeks, with or without a deal, though it was not clear whether he
planned to uphold his threat to destroy civilian infrastructure.
On
Wednesday, he claimed Iran was seeking a "ceasefire" in the war, which
he said the U.S. would consider once Hormuz was reopened. Tehran did not
immediately respond to this assertion either.
'Not much question'
To
attack desalination plants, upon which millions of people across the
Middle East rely for drinking water, Rapp said, "would definitely be a
war crime."
“Not much question about that,” he said.
Kenneth
Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, agreed,
adding in separate comments: “Even attacks on power plants are war
crimes.”
He noted that Iran has a unified electrical grid, meaning its military uses the same electricity as civilians.
“The harm to civilians ... is clearly disproportionate to any military benefit,” he added.
Emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike Friday in Tehran.Majid Saeedi / Getty Images
Under international humanitarian law,civilian
sites cannot be made the “object of attack or of reprisals." The only
exception is if they are used for military purposes, but attacks must
still adhere to the principles of international law.
In
his threat, Trump said that such attacks on civilian infrastructure
would be carried out as “retribution” for the deaths of U.S. military
members, with at least 13 service members killed in the war, while two
more have died of noncombat causes.
More
than 3,000 people have been killed across the region in the war, with
at least 1,900 people estimated killed in Iran under Israeli and
American strikes and more than 1,300 killed in Lebanon, while 19 people
have died in Israel.
Human
rights groups have said that in addition to the U.S., Israel and Iran
have committed possible war crimes during the monthlong conflict.
The
State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment
on criticisms of Trump’s threats to target civilian infrastructure in
Iran.
During a news
conference Tuesday, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, appeared to try to downplay Trump’s threats.
Hailing
the U.S. military as “the most professional force in the world,” Caine
said it had “numerous processes and systems to carefully consider the
whole range of considerations, from civilian risk to legal
considerations.”
White House
press secretary Karoline Leavitt separately said Monday that the U.S.
military would always operate within the “confines of the law.”
David
J. Scheffer, who served as the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war
crimes issues and led the American delegation to the United Nations
talks for establishing the International Criminal Court,said he wouldn't necessarily call America a "rogue state."
However,
the “entire international community” will be watching the conduct of
U.S. forces in the Iran war — "and will reach conclusions that could
easily identify the United States as a nation that is not complying with
international law,” he said.
The
U.S., Israel and Iran are not signatories to the International Criminal
Court, which investigates and tries crimes of genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
Lebanese
residents inspect the heavy damage to their homes and buildings after
an Israeli airstrike on the town of Sakesakiye in southern Lebanon on
Saturday.Murat Sengul / Anadolu via Getty Images
Threats as war crimes
International
law experts also said that under international law, threatening to
carry out a war crime can be considered a war crime in and of itself,
although threats alone were unlikely to be prosecuted.
"Even
if the threat is not deemed a war crime in itself, it would be evidence
of criminal intent, as opposed to an erroneous misfire, if the attack
is carried out," according to Roth.
While
Rapp said Trump's comments could be put down to "bluster," he felt the
president was “tearing up” Washington’s historic role in leading efforts
to prosecute war crimes on the world stage, including in the Nuremberg
trials, which saw top Nazi leaders prosecuted for their crimes during
the Holocaust.
Meanwhile, he
warned that Trump's threats also risked creating a “permission structure
for others to threaten or commit similar crimes.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a news briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday.Win McNamee / Getty Images
Shadow of Gaza
Three
former U.S. officials who resigned from the Biden administration over
America's support for Israel's war in the Gaza Strip said the gravity of
Trump's threats should not be downplayed.
Josh Paul, who resigned from his role as
director of congressional and public affairs for the State Department’s
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in 2023, said there appeared to be
a growing "willingness to commit" possible war crimes, "whether by the
U.S. or certainly by some of its partners."
People
flee following an Israeli strike near a tent encampment sheltering
people displaced by war in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on
March 25.Eyad Baba / AFP via Getty Images
"The
fact that Trump feels he can use this in what almost seems like an idle
threat, I think is part of what's so alarming about it ... given the
context of Israel's absolute destruction of almost all civilian
infrastructure in Gaza," said Annelle Sheline, who resigned the following year from the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor for the same reasons as Paul and whose work focused on the Middle East.
Another expert expressed a similar view.
"Once,
you know, hospital after hospital, school after school, got bombed,
journalist after journalist got killed, it became so normalized," said
Hala Rharrit, a U.S. diplomat and veteran foreign service officer who stepped down from the State Department in 2024.
"Now, when Trump makes the threat of attacking civilian infrastructure, many people don't even bat an eye."
Israel
rejects allegations that it has committed war crimes in Gaza, where at
least 72,285 people have been killed across two and a half years of war,
according to figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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