Iran would also like to not get nuked by the United States. Why isn’t Iran sabotaging U.S. weapon systems, getting U.S. nuclear engineers to defect, and getting its allies to put sanctions on the U.S. conditional on disarmament?
Sometimes hard power just isn’t the right solution, especially when you are a relatively small fish whose main chance at victory comes from a mutualistic relationship, not an antagonistic one.
Why isn’t Iran sabotaging U.S. weapon systems, getting U.S. nuclear engineers to defect, and getting its allies to put sanctions on the U.S. conditional on disarmament?
The reason they don’t do it is that Iran doesn’t have the state capacity for these actions, nor would Iran be willing to risk an armed conflict with the world’s most powerful military. Iran also doesn’t believe the United States is ever going to nuke it, so it has little motivation to do this in the first place. None of this is analogous from Israel’s perspective, so their actions make strategic sense.
Sometimes hard power just isn’t the right solution, especially when you are a relatively small fish whose main chance at victory comes from a mutualistic relationship, not an antagonistic one.
Well, hard power is all they have. Solving the alignment problem would probably be an order of magnitude easier than developing a coherent plan to restore friendly diplomatic relations between Israel and Iran.
Iran would also like to not get nuked by the United States. Why isn’t Iran sabotaging U.S. weapon systems, getting U.S. nuclear engineers to defect, and getting its allies to put sanctions on the U.S. conditional on disarmament?
Sometimes hard power just isn’t the right solution, especially when you are a relatively small fish whose main chance at victory comes from a mutualistic relationship, not an antagonistic one.
The reason they don’t do it is that Iran doesn’t have the state capacity for these actions, nor would Iran be willing to risk an armed conflict with the world’s most powerful military. Iran also doesn’t believe the United States is ever going to nuke it, so it has little motivation to do this in the first place. None of this is analogous from Israel’s perspective, so their actions make strategic sense.
Well, hard power is all they have. Solving the alignment problem would probably be an order of magnitude easier than developing a coherent plan to restore friendly diplomatic relations between Israel and Iran.