I personally don’t buy the line of thought that Iran has no such ambitions; YMMV.
Whether this war is effective at stopping that is another question.
Americans like you (I rudely assume) care more about US domestic policies than I do.
Foreigners like me care more about global stability compared to US domestic policies.
But because the US still has the most influence (though waning) on the rest of the world than any other country, its domestic policies can either enhance or threaten global stability. And Trump has been absolutely disastrous -- from see-saw tariffs, to gutting USAID, to destabilizing US-Europe relations, to caving into pressure from Israel (cheered on by idiotic macho-boy Hesgeth) to attack Iran without any real plan (foolishly thinking Iran==Venezuela; do these people know nothing?). So the problem with global stability right now isn't Iran, which was a largely contained problem (despite its never-ending feud with Israel), but Trump.
European takes are usually the funniest. It's literal racism (as in, one race is better than the other) but it's packaged in such a ridiculous way that you somehow suggest that it's doing others a favor.
As an example:
I was out on the streets protesting the 2003 GWB Iraq invasion war. It was mostly obvious before the invasion that the cause was bogus. It was later proven to be bogus.
And you seem to have this way of boiling literally everything down to some sort of unspecified racism.
No assumptions, it's all fact.
> I was out on the streets protesting the 2003 GWB Iraq invasion war
You mean the war that all the European countries participated in? How about Libya? Syria? or the various conflicts in Israel? Surely you also opposed what's happening in Yemen right?
> And you seem to have this way of boiling literally everything down to some sort of unspecified racism
Suggesting 'we are trustworthy to have nuclear capabilities, but those other people are not' is racist, yeah. Considering the most crackpot nations responsible for most of the global instability and suffering over the last few centuries are also the ones who seem to think they can decide who can and can't utilize energy sources. Let me know when you show similar concern about Israel.
That's just factually incorrect. Most European countries did not take part in the invasion of Iraq. The US famously renamed French fries in protest.
> The US famously renamed French fries in protest.
The same French who very famously made Israel the nuclear-capable pariah state that it is today.
Even Germany is a dumb one, really. The only reason why they didn't participate is because they legally weren't allowed to. What they did do, however, is deploy huge numbers to various US bases around the world so that the US can have a larger deployment.
The only absurdity here is the idea that the European retconning is believable.