- US air strikes on top Iran nuclear facilities According to Ian Bremmer of Eurasia, this is not the beginning of a long-term movement. Instead, they look more like a dramatic attack that can represent the peak, comparing it to a short, engaging video on Tiktok, he said. A top Wall Street analyst said the market would assume that the worst is over now.
Air strikes on the regime’s nuclear field may represent a peak of military engagement as Donald Trump’s desire to avoid a fraught conflict with Iran.
exist Video posted on Sundaygeopolitical experts have distinguished between long-standing wars that have become feed for multi-episode documentaries with attacks similar to short, engaging videos on Tiktok.
“At the moment, this is not the Americans starting a massive, grinding, dragging, Ken Burns-style war that will be strongly opposed by most Americans, and there is a lot of opposition in Trump’s own base,” he said. “But the Tiktok-style war will certainly lag behind the Tiktok-style war.”
He noted that Trump’s similar dramatic move during his first term did not lead to a major escalation. In January 2020, he ordered the killing of Qasem Soleimani, a senior Iranian military commander, in response to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Saudi oil facilities.
Bremer said Iran’s retaliation was a symbolic attack on U.S. bases and that was not to cause much damage, adding that Trump expects a similar reaction this time.
“If it was done by an Iranian agent and it wouldn’t cause much damage – especially if it wouldn’t lead to a large number of killings of American soldiers and women, then it’s the peak that the United States did, which is reasonable,” Bremmer said. “That’s not the United States and the war ongoing. Instead, it’s a huge victory. It’s not peace, but it’s a huge victory for Trump. It’s a bigger victory for the Israeli Prime Minister.”
Of course, the ultimate U.S. military involvement depends on Iran’s next move. Despite its severely downgraded military capabilities, Tehran still has the ability to launch cyber and terrorist attacks and destroy the oil market.
But given that Israel or U.S. missiles have not yet targeted the county’s export-oriented oil infrastructure, Bremer does not expect Iran to close the key to global energy trade, the key to global energy trade. Israel’s earlier attacks hit Iran’s energy infrastructure serving domestic consumers.
Dan Ives, managing director of Wedbush Securities, is bullish on Wall Street as the U.S. attacks Iran.
“The market will see this Iranian threat as now disappearing, which is positive for the ultimate growth of the Middle East and technology sectors,” he said. He posted on x. “This conflict will take some time to resolve, but the market will see the worst in the rearview mirror. Inventory is expected to increase.”
