If the USA really wants to get the Russians to put pressure on the Mad Dog Mullahs, we don’t stop working on ADi. What we do is withdraw from the NPT. Once shed of that worthless piece of paper, we can do two thing. Sell Poland nukes and offer to turn Tehran into a glowing crater.
Let the Russians contemplate Poland with 50 or nukes and the TBM’s to mount them on and thier eagerness to cooperate will go way up. They will also stop their unseemly whining about SDI. They won’t block anymore UN resolutions either. They might even stop selling obsolete SAM’s to Iran.
Let the Chi-Coms ponder the possibilities of the ROC’s having a few dozne nukes and they will see the benifits of co-operation with regime change in Iran.
All we need to do is withdraw from the NPT, which isn’t working anyway.
This plan is based on good, basic, sound Machiavellian politics, the kind that makes the world go round. Your pipe dream is based on Democratic politics, which work fine within or between democracies, but not in a real world peopled with tyrants and dictators. As the greatest Tyrant of them all said;
“One mans death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” In a democracy, people shudder at that quote. In the real world, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was merely stating a fact.
