Just as NATO nations are bound to each other via member State agreement: i.e., – if one NATO nation is attacked, the other member nations are ‘forced’ to declare war on the aggressor due to their NATO pact agreement binding – ‘all for one, and one for all.’
I would presume?, that just like NATO, the U.S. is similarly ‘bound’ by a pre-existing treaty with Israel?, where likewise, if Israel is attacked, it is simply ‘mandatory procedure,’ – that the U.S. must declare war on the aggressor.
It doesn’t matter whether any president or administration agrees with the action, or not, as administration’s change every few years, whilst the agreement remains firmly entrenched within U.S. State policy.
Israel knows the hand its been dealt, so plays its cards often, this is the power of political leverage.
The Kremlin is usually more balanced and down to earth in its reporting of international events. So its interesting reading what they have to say.
According to this report from the Kremlin’s website, the sixth paragraph clearly reveals, that Moscow was mediating diplomatic negotiations between Washington and Tehran with regards to their shared issues.
The negotiations appear to have been going well, with an agreeable resolution in sight, but on the eve of the next negotiation (15 June), the rogue State, Israel, – clearly destabilised the negotiations via military action.
The Israeli provocation forced a predictable Iranian response against Israel, and thus, an equally predictable U.S. military response against Iran [via their binding agreement to Israel]: – thus, sabotaging the peaceful American-Iranian negotiations that were already underway and making headway [via Russia].
The following transcript comes from the Kremlin’s website.
‘President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United States of America Donald Trump have just had another telephone conversation.
The conversation lasted for about an hour, to be precise, for 50 minutes, it was substantive, sincere and, the main thing, very useful.
Naturally, it was focused on the dangerous exacerbation of the situation in the Middle East.
Vladimir Putin denounced the Israeli’s military operation against Iran and expressed a grave concern over the possible escalation of the conflict, which would have unpredictable consequences for the entire situation in the Middle East region.
Our President advised the US counterpart on his yesterday’s telephone contacts with the Israeli Prime Minister and the President of Iran. He emphasised the importance of preventing the conflict from escalating and the readiness of the Russian side to engage in possible mediation efforts.
The President of Russia reminded that prior to the current escalation, we had proposed specific steps intended to reach mutually acceptable agreements during the negotiations between US and Iranian representatives on the Iranian nuclear programme, but Israel delivered the strikes right on the eve of the next negotiation round scheduled for June 15.
Russia’s principle-based approach and interest in the settlement remain unchanged. And as Vladimir Putin noted, we will continue to act proceeding from this position.
For his part, Donald Trump also views the situation as very alarming admitting, however, the effectiveness of Israel’s strikes on its targets in Iran. But it is characteristic that the Russian and US presidents, notwithstanding such a complicated situation, do not rule out a return to the negotiating track on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Incidentally, as Donald Trump noted, the team of US negotiators is ready for resuming work with Iranian representatives. As it is known, five rounds of such indirect talks took place with Oman’s mediation.
