Netanyahu is copying Putin's tactics by bombing Iran's energy system - it will backfire badly [View all]

The Israeli bombing of the South Pars gas field has chilling parallels to Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure, which has been condemned as a possible war crime. World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes that such a strategy will cause needless pain and do nothing to bring the regime to its knees

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Well, it is because Netanyahu, who is under indictment for crimes against humanity for his campaign in Gaza, has copied the tactics of Vladimir Putin, who himself is under indictment for alleged crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

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Trump does not care about human rights and alleged war crimes. He consistently takes Putin’s side over Ukraine and has been a staunch, uncritical ally of Netanyahu’s far-right government during its campaign against Gaza and its ongoing annexation of Palestinian land on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Given that the Trump administration has no definition of what victory looks like in Iran and no plan for how to achieve it, this may not have made any difference, in the moment.

But the effects on global fossil fuel prices will further threaten to hobble economies from Asia to the Americas and offer only Putin a lottery win of unplanned financial windfalls. Moscow’s oil sales have already generated up to $10bn (£7.5bn) in extra revenues for his war in Ukraine, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-iran-war-netanyahu-gas-fields-putin-b2941773.html