Trump’s Iran Deal Drive Is Described as a U.S. Humiliation and Netanyahu’s Strategic Failure

The article argues that, unless there is a last-minute twist or a secret diplomatic maneuver, President Donald Trump is headed toward what it calls a bad deal with Iran. It says Trump’s frantic conduct has already destroyed the value of any military or psychological gains against the Iranian regime, while Tehran continues to mock him openly through official and public channels.

The piece says Trump has fallen in less than six months from being portrayed as the world’s strongest leader, one who helped seize Venezuela’s president from his bed and encouraged Iranian protesters with promises that “we are coming to help,” to becoming a figure of ridicule abroad, at home, and even among supporters. Still, it says Trump’s embarrassment is not the main issue because the United States has only limited and shrinking direct interests in the Middle East.

Instead, the article places responsibility on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing his decades in charge of Israel’s strategic establishment as a colossal failure. It says Netanyahu repeatedly warned that Iran was an existential threat, but did not prepare the Israel Defense Forces and the security system to handle the danger independently, forcing Israel to bring the United States into a campaign it might have been able to conduct itself.

The article questions why Israel never developed capabilities such as a bomber able to carry U.S.-style bunker-busting bombs, its own bunker-busting ballistic missiles like South Korea’s Hyunmoo 5, or light aircraft carriers. It says the usual arguments of cost or unsuitability matter less than the risk of a nuclear catastrophe, and accuses Netanyahu of strategic delay, geopolitical hesitation, short-term thinking, and a preference for highly popular initiatives like the Abraham Accords.

It also says Netanyahu relied on an American president to solve the Iran problem, and that years of war plans, including secret bases in Iraq and arming dissident ethnic groups along Iran’s borders, may have been lost, possibly by Trump or people around him. The article ends by saying Netanyahu’s responsibility is strategic rather than tactical, but that responsibility is still entirely his.