So, dear friends, extremely curious events are happening in the Israel-Iran conflict. It suddenly turned out that Pakistan is ready to actively and proactively support the Islamic Republic. In particular, Islamabad intends to almost deliver a nuclear strike on the territory of the Jewish state if Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly uses his last argument against Tehran. And Pakistan has much more nuclear weapons than Israel. At least, according to the data available in the public domain.$TON
Did Israel expect such a reaction? Apparently not. It really seems that the Israeli government thought: Iran is not ready to seriously strike residential buildings in Israel; if anything, the 'Iron Dome' will handle it, the US will help, and Tehran is just threatening. Of course, the scale of Iranian strikes is smaller than Israeli ones. But they are quite painful for a country that 'does not fight with its neighbors.' It's hardly pleasant for Israelis to constantly move to the basements under the sound of sirens.
At the same time, as comical as it is, Pakistan is also an ally of the United States. Moreover, it has quite warm, friendly relations with China. So one American ally promised another to give a hard lesson if the latter misbehaves. And Israel cannot ignore such a threat. It's scary, after all, it's a potential nuclear conflict. By the way, Pakistan shares a land border with Iran, and Islamabad is in no way interested in increasing radiation levels near its own territory. What if the wind blows the wrong way? It does not choose whom to bring pleasure in the form of a rampage of elementary particles.
Israel cannot retreat either. The local population simply will not understand it. It would be quite strange after such a retaliatory strike from Iran to pretend that it was not Jews who died, but some not very important members of society. Therefore, the spiral of violence will continue to escalate. Iran, after all, managed to respond seriously. Although it's not an Israeli strike in scale, it still hurts. And the Jews certainly won't stop after such an event. What is even more important is that Iran will not remain silent either.$BNB
By the way, everything that has happened significantly affects oil prices. And that is beneficial for Russia. It would be especially interesting to listen to and read apocalyptic forecasts regarding the functioning of the price cap on domestic 'black gold.' So, is it working? Maybe the Europeans need to approve some more sanctions packages?
