President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack that utilized a one-way attack drone

Biden, who is spending Christmas at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, was alerted about the attack by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan shortly after it occurred on Monday and ordered the Pentagon and his top national security aides to prepare response options.

  • @Nobody
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    Iran is either losing control of its proxy groups or making some very bad decisions. What Israel is doing in Gaza is horrendous, but Iran and its proxies provoking the US to war is incredibly stupid.

    Please stop poking the bear. That doesn’t end well.

    • @SkyezOpen
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      -1211 months ago

      What’s our record for complete annihilation of a country’s military, 2 days?

      We can do better.

      • circuscritic
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        11 months ago

        Winning the war isn’t the biggest problem, not losing the peace is, otherwise you get another ISIS, or worse.

        Oh, and civilians die by tens or hundreds of thousands.

        • @SkyezOpen
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          1011 months ago

          Stabilizing a region doesn’t fuel the MIC. Steamrolling militaries does. If something terrible pops up from the power vacuum? Even better for the bottom line.