Brussels has shifted into crisis mode, with emergency meetings piling up Saturday and Sunday.
As European leaders raced to respond to the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the crisis exposed fault lines inside Europe — and across the Atlantic.
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Brussels moved quickly to strike a cautious tone. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on X that the situation was “perilous,” while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed it was “of the utmost importance” to prevent further escalation. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also urged restraint.
At the national level, however, Europe’s message was less unified.
I’m not saying they were negotiating in good faith. Personally, I don’t think they were. But they’re still called ‘negotiations’ because they were taking to each other. That talking preceded the attacks. There have been articles for days about the talks not going anywhere.
Good faith negotiations simply weren’t going to happen after Trump cancelled the deal that was in place an assassinated Iran’s top general in his first term. This war was pretty much inevitable at that point.
Maybe if Harris were President and Trump were in jail trust could’ve been rebuilt and the war could’ve been avoided. Oops… I forgot I was on the “both sides are the same” website, nevermind LOL
I mean Biden certainly didn’t do much to (re)earn Iran’s trust, and Israel did bomb Iran during his term to little to no US resistance.
Gonna need a source for your claim on an Israeli airstrike on Iran during Biden’s term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran–Israel_conflict ??? I thought this was a pretty famous incident.
Oh right there was a missile exchange. When you said “bomb Iran” that implied the use of warplanes, which wasn’t what happened. It was a tit-for-tat missile exchange, kinda meh compared to the war with Hamas and the war with Hezbollah which was happening at the time.
The missile exchange deescalated very quickly, but I guess you wanted a big speech from Biden condemning Israel rather than a diplomatic effort to get both sides to deescalate?
I didn’t want it to happen in the first place. The only reason the Israelis started it was because they knew they’d get away with it, and they did.