Tucker Carlson has said what few in Washington dare to say out loud. His warning that the US may be within days of a nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain, allegedly pushed by Netanyahu’s daily calls to Trump, reached about 42.7M people, and the White House has not denied a word of it. Instead, officials say “all options” stay open, while Trump himself says Pickaxe Mountain must be “taken care of” very quickly. When a superpower answers a nuclear alarm with silence, the world has every reason to worry.
Carlson’s own account reveals a Washington divided against itself. By his telling, Vance and Witkoff want a deal while Hegseth and Adm Brad Cooper push for strikes, and US doctrine was quietly loosened in February. If no conventional bomb can reach tunnels under 300 feet of granite, the logic of escalation leads to only one place. Carlson’s verdict is blunt: after the first nuclear strike, World War Three becomes inevitable.
For Pakistan, this is not a distant debate. Carlson himself names South Asia as a fallout zone. Pakistan shares a long border with Iran, and millions of Pakistanis live and work across the Gulf. Any nuclear strike next door would put Pakistani lives, trade and energy supplies directly at risk.
The hypocrisy here is glaring. For decades, Western think tanks and media lectured Pakistan on its nuclear programme, painting a strictly defensive deterrent as a global danger. Pakistan has kept its arsenal under tight command and has never threatened a first strike on a non-nuclear state. Yet those same critics now look away as a superpower openly weighs striking a fortified mountain, reportedly under pressure from a foreign leader. They owe the world an answer on who the reckless actor really is.
Islamabad’s position has been consistent from the start: there is no military solution in Iran, and dialogue is the only way out. With Carlson’s 7 Nov date approaching, Washington would do well to listen to the country that sits closest to the consequences.
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Tucker Carlson Sounds Nuclear Alarm As Washington Refuses To Deny
Tucker Carlson has said what few in Washington dare to say out loud. His warning that the US may be within days of a nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain, allegedly pushed by Netanyahu’s daily calls to Trump, reached about 42.7M people, and the White House has not denied a word of it. Instead, officials say “all options” stay open, while Trump himself says Pickaxe Mountain must be “taken care of” very quickly. When a superpower answers a nuclear alarm with silence, the world has every reason to worry.
Carlson’s own account reveals a Washington divided against itself. By his telling, Vance and Witkoff want a deal while Hegseth and Adm Brad Cooper push for strikes, and US doctrine was quietly loosened in February. If no conventional bomb can reach tunnels under 300 feet of granite, the logic of escalation leads to only one place. Carlson’s verdict is blunt: after the first nuclear strike, World War Three becomes inevitable.
For Pakistan, this is not a distant debate. Carlson himself names South Asia as a fallout zone. Pakistan shares a long border with Iran, and millions of Pakistanis live and work across the Gulf. Any nuclear strike next door would put Pakistani lives, trade and energy supplies directly at risk.
The hypocrisy here is glaring. For decades, Western think tanks and media lectured Pakistan on its nuclear programme, painting a strictly defensive deterrent as a global danger. Pakistan has kept its arsenal under tight command and has never threatened a first strike on a non-nuclear state. Yet those same critics now look away as a superpower openly weighs striking a fortified mountain, reportedly under pressure from a foreign leader. They owe the world an answer on who the reckless actor really is.
Islamabad’s position has been consistent from the start: there is no military solution in Iran, and dialogue is the only way out. With Carlson’s 7 Nov date approaching, Washington would do well to listen to the country that sits closest to the consequences.
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