The new Gulf War is just a week old, but the US President is already Trumpeting a personal victory. Not that he’d ever permit himself anything less.

In any case, Iran is being severely tested.

Its leadership has been decimated and its air defense dismantled, while its counter-attacks on neighboring countries are causing a lot more televisual shock and awe than actual damage.

But war has its logic. It doesn’t end till the combatants or the ammunition run out. And for the time being, there’s no predicting the endgame, despite everyone taking it for granted.

In the Greek Parliament, all the parties, splinter groups, and fringe factions agree on one key point: they don’t want Greece involved.

That consensus wasn’t hard to reach. Nobody in the world is asking us to participate. Because no one expects us to join in. And none of our politicians have promised we will.

So Tehran will have to be defeated without Dendias’ phalanxes.

We’ve demonstrated our solidarity with Cyprus, which goes without saying, and with other European non-belligerents. Which is reasonable and justified. Though I can still be amazed by the contrarians and the lengths they’ll go to reject the blindingly obvious.

Though, to be honest, Cyprus was never in any particular danger of getting involved either. It’s just closer to the front line than the rest of the EU, and mistakes happen.

Truth be told, you’d need the lofty Communist delusions and unshakable anti-NATO bias of a Comrade Koutsoumbas to imagine Souda in any real danger.

With so many American bases in the neighborhood and almost the entire American fleet at their feet, only the most optimistic revolutionary could believe the Iranians are dead set on attacking a port in… Chania!

Assuming they ever had the operational capability to actually do it.

But that’s where the good news ends.

Of course, no one will weep for Iran’s horrible anachronistic regime if it collapses in defeat. Every serious analyst considers it the main sponsor and instigator of destabilization in the region, after all. So no loss there.

But it won’t be easy to wipe the mullahs and their Revolutionary Guards off the face of the Earth and extinguish a regime that’s been in power for just short of half a century.

Then there are the economic consequences, too. While it’s still too soon to calculate the cost, one thing is certain: it’s Europe and its citizens that will be footing the bill first.

Whether they get involved in the fighting or not.