By Mojmir Babacek
Global Research
February 25, 2026
In recent days, Donald Trump has hesitated to launch an attack on Iran, which would eliminate the sovereignty of a state that bases its legislation on its religious faith and democracy. By carrying out this attack, Donald Trump would once again demonstrate democracy's intolerance toward any beliefs other than faith in money and democratic values-values that even the democratic world itself has been abandoning in recent years, including the concealment of weapons capable of stripping the global population of freedom of thought.
However, Donald Trump's current primary objective is to deal another blow to China by cutting off its access to Iranian oil. After Venezuela, Iran would become the next oil-rich nation to face U.S. occupation and stop its supplies of oil to China. Iran, in its effort to secure allies against American and Israeli attacks on its sovereignty, has also been supplying weapons to Russia for its war to retain Ukrainian territories that were historically part of Russia and sought reunification following the coup-orchestrated primarily by residents of traditionally Western-aligned regions of Ukraine. Both China and Russia thus have strong reasons to defend Iran against an American assault.
In 2011, Russia and China stopped the U.S. and Israel's attempted attack on Iran by warning that they would deploy their own troops in a war over Iran-effectively triggering a global war with the U.S, which would rather inevitably turn into a nuclear war.
However, Russia is now hesitating to defend Iran, unsure whether it wants to lose American support in reclaiming historically Russian territories in Ukraine. Yet losing Iran would further weaken Russia's global standing, making it an even easier target for the U.S and the European Union.
To counter America's push for control over Iran, Russia and China might mirror the West's tactics in the Ukraine conflict to prevent nuclear war. They could arm Iran with advanced weaponry to neutralize the U.S. fleet off its coast. With the West openly admitting that 'retired' U.S. and Dutch pilots are flying F-16s in Ukraine, Moscow or Beijing could similarly deploy their 'retired' specialists to operate anti-ship systems. The Ukraine war has proven that warships are increasingly vulnerable in today's battlefield.
This is likely the real reason why Donald Trump is hesitating to attack Iran. However, it does not change the fact that the world is steadily edging closer to a global war.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, conflicts over new territories are reigniting both globally and in Europe. Meanwhile, driven by their desire to dominate the world, the U.S. is attempting, 80 years after the foundation of the United Nations Organization,-an organization created to prevent another world war- to obliterate it and replace it with an American "Peace Council" that, if joined by all of the world governments, would eliminate the sovereignty of all nations and subdue them to the U.S. government.
The erosion of respect for state sovereignty logically leads to the erosion of respect for individual freedoms, as evidenced by Ukraine's efforts (factually supported by the democratic European Union) to prohibit Russian-speaking populations in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine from speaking their own language and as well by the global concealment of technologies for remote control of human brain activity.
The original source of this article is Global Research.
Mojmir Babacek was born in 1947 in Prague, Czech Republic. Graduated in 1972 at Charles University in Prague in philosophy and political economy. In 1978 signed the document defending human rights in communist Czechoslovakia "Charter 77". Since 1981 until 1988 lived in emigration in the USA. Since 1996 he has published articles on different subjects mostly in the Czech and international alternative media.