Israel would never do that, they certainly never did that before...
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Can't blame them.
The US loves being in a dozen wars at once, and our people even support funding other countries' wars now. We're the most prolific warmongers on the planet.
If you look through my comments you will see so many that piss off folks with large opinions in this area. I just hate our involvement though in the whole region and that includes the fact we shot down any missiles. I would literally like us to have nothing to do with countries or regions that do not directly touch the pacific or atlantic outside of trade but it would be on them to get their products to the atlantic or the pacific.
It would be really nice if we weren't so vulgarly neglectful of our own people in service to war. Canada spends 26 billion a year on war. And Mexico, a mere 8 billion.
War is a blank check in this country because it makes a handful of people obscenely rich.
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The first direct attack by a state military against Israel since Iraq’s Scud missile launches during 1991’s Gulf War, the Iranian salvo — slow, deliberate, and forewarned — appeared calculated not to escalate the situation.
A report by NBC News on the morning after Iran’s strikes quoted three individuals close to Joe Biden as saying that the president “privately expressed concern that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to drag Washington into a broader conflict.”
There have been sudden U.S. shifts on the war in Gaza, and Biden apparently rejected further Israeli strikes against Iran, but American officials including the president have by and large struck a tone of total, unflinching support for Israel.
The U.S. has material incentives to draw down its focus on the Middle East and does not want to fight another major war in the region, but for Israel and for Netanyahu personally, there are strong reasons to start a direct confrontation with Iran and its allies.
Since the start of its post-October 7 assault on Gaza, Israeli civilians have mostly abandoned the northern area of the country due to the nearby presence, across the Lebanese border, of fighters from the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
At a moment when the U.S. is running short of munitions and funding to support Ukraine and is nervously eyeing China’s military buildup in east Asia, it is hard to think of worse timing for such a conflict, regardless of how opportune it may be for Israel.
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