Hey Larry, your post “Trump’s Strike on Iran May Spark the Nuclear Arms Race He Hoped to Prevent” is more empty clickbait from the mainstream media, dripping with sentimentality and short on research, facts, or objectivity. You’re fearmongering about Trump’s attack on Iran sparking a new nuclear arms race while downplaying the real threat—the nuclear weapons programs Obama and Biden funded with our tax dollars that we’re now forced to clean up. Your selective outrage and tenuous understanding of facts paint an inaccurate picture and your misplaced panic over Trump’s “unilateral” action obscures the real danger—violent, anarchist rioters funded by liberal oligarchs who are tearing apart our cities. Let’s cut the noise.

You’re arguing that Trump’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, carried out with Israeli support, will spark a new nuclear arms race—likely true, but only at best a guess. You concede Iran’s nuclear program is dangerous, yet criticize the strike without addressing why it was necessary. Iran’s enrichment of uranium to near-weapons grade (60% purity, per IAEA, Feb 2025) was an imminent threat, not a possibility. The 2015 JCPOA, which Obama brokered and Biden tried to revive, failed miserably—liberating $150 billion in frozen assets to Iran, which they invested in Hezbollah, Hamas, and its nuclear program (Treasury Department, 2016). Those are our tax dollars, routed through sanctions relief, and now funding the very threat we’re eliminating. Trump’s strike targeted three facilities—Natanz, Fordow, and Arak—based on intelligence, not whimsy. You say “no imminent threat,” but the War Powers Act allows for pre-emptive action against clear and present danger, and Iran’s conduct fits the bill.

You also mischaracterize the legal framework. The 2001 AUMF, still in effect, allows military action against terrorist-linked threats, and Iran’s support of militias like Kata’ib Hezbollah, which killed 186 U.S. troops since 2003 (DOD, 2020), meet that threshold. Congress doesn’t need to approve targeted strikes, a case Obama made in 2011 (Libya bombing) and Biden made in 2021 (Syria strikes), both without Congressional approval. Your criticism of “legality” is selective, and where was your outrage then?

You panic over Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz or drone-swarming U.S. cities, but that’s more “Dr. Strangelove” than “Dr. Strangelove.” Iran’s navy is no match for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and its drones, while advanced, can’t cross the Atlantic (CSIS, 2024). The real danger you’re downplaying is domestic—the violent, anarchist rioters inspired by Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals that have been burning down cities like Los Angeles and Portland. They’re not grassroots protesters—they’re being paid by liberal oligarchs like George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations funneled $70 million to “community organizing” groups associated with 2020 riots (OSF, 2021). The Tides Foundation transferred $170 million to radical causes, including Antifa-linked networks (Capital Research Center, 2023). They’re committed to disorder, not dissent, and cost $2 billion in damage in 2020 alone (AXA Insurance). That’s what you should fear, not a parade or a targeted attack.

You gloss over the failure of single-issue, single-mind leaders like LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom, who’ve allowed law and order to break down. Bass, who once extolled Scientology and Fidel Castro, presided over a surge in crime and homelessness. Violent crime in LA rose 12% from 2021-2024 (LAPD). Newsom’s soft-on-crime policies, like Proposition 47, turned California into a hotspot for looting and rioting. Their refusal to crack down on anarchist violence—while criticizing federal overreach when Trump steps in—says everything about their priorities. Supporting their base over citizens. Compare that to Trump’s strike, which neutralized a clear threat without U.S. casualties.

You’re wrong that the strike will embolden Germany, Poland, Japan, or Saudi Arabia to go nuclear. Germany and Japan are under the NATO and U.S. nuclear umbrella and have no real appetite for their own arsenals (SIPRI, 2024). Poland’s “consideration” is conjecture, related to Russian saber-rattling, not Iran. Saudi Arabia’s interest predates Trump, inspired by Obama’s JCPOA, which they saw as a greenlight for Iran’s program (Al Jazeera, 2016). The real proliferation risk was Biden’s failed 2022-2023 talks, which offered Iran $10 billion in sanctions relief without an enforceable ceiling (State Department, 2023). That’s what incentivized Iran, not Trump’s attack.

Your post is pure clickbait, and another “Dr. Strangelove” meme from the media, hyping Trump as a warmongering madman while ignoring the mess Obama and Biden left us—a nuclear-armed Iran that was funded by our tax dollars and we’re now cleaning up. You ignore the anarchist rioters burning down our cities, funded by liberal oligarchs and emboldened by mayors like Bass and governors like Newsom. That’s the real story you’re ignoring. Do your research next time before you post, and I’ll be here with my coffee to catch the typos.