For those who missed it, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel, it appears to be over for now, but who knows how long?

  • @HappycamperNZ
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    63 months ago

    Israel has two realistic options

    • de escalate, don’t retaliate and watch them keep going.

    • escalate, retaliate, and give Iran the same two choices.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      The difference being that Israel has been going for escalations much stronger, having attacked Lebanon far more often over the past year than Hezbollah had attacked them and ramping things up with more and more attacks including attacks onto Syria and Iran directly.

      Netanyahu needs the escalation to distract from the failure of achieving any strategic goal in Gaza and to drag the US into a war, so as to not finally draw a line to Israels actions.

      • @HappycamperNZ
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        53 months ago

        Yup. And yet some how rockets are still happily coming in both directions. Same two choices remain.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      De-escalate, everything goes back to normal is looking pretty viable, actually. Or at least was a couple weeks ago. Israel is the only one that wants to have a regional war right now.

      That would mean Netanyahu goes to jail for corruption, though, and he doesn’t feel like it. And America doesn’t feel like stopping him.