This. Last night was by no means a success by any metric. The unthinkable, an attack from Iranian home turf on Israel, has taken place. Like the invasion of Ukraine, when ‘expert’ talking heads said such a war was inconceivable, the inconceivable occurred. We are letting the axis powers dictate the pace and location of the battle. The west appears weak, and our enemies feel emboldened. The IRG opened the door yesterday. Dictators don’t stop until they meet a hard stop. Now we have to watch two bad options play out. Israel retaliates and the situation becomes escalatory. Or Israel is leaned upon to remain passive by an increasingly dovish US administration that consistently gives the impression America is slowly leaving the World stage. Dont think for a minute we dodged a bullet last night. The trigger hasn’t been pulled yet.
This. Last night was by no means a success by any metric. The unthinkable, an attack from Iranian home turf on Israel, has taken place. Like the invasion of Ukraine, when ‘expert’ talking heads said such a war was inconceivable, the inconceivable occurred. We are letting the axis powers dictate the pace and location of the battle. The west appears weak, and our enemies feel emboldened. The IRG opened the door yesterday. Dictators don’t stop until they meet a hard stop. Now we have to watch two bad options play out. Israel retaliates and the situation becomes escalatory. Or Israel is leaned upon to remain passive by an increasingly dovish US administration that consistently gives the impression America is slowly leaving the World stage. Dont think for a minute we dodged a bullet last night. The trigger hasn’t been pulled yet.
North Korea will test resolve too in the next 2 to 3 months in my opinion based on the Israeli response to Iran… The more fiercely Israeli responds, the less they will be provocation from North Korea, the less fierce the Israeli response (and a feckless U.S. backing up) the more provocation from North Korea. Simple as that.
@FouthTimeLucky Not to mention the new intel Iran now has on Israeli air defense.
@FouthTimeLucky @CitizenByX You don't think that Iran sees this attack as a way to restore deterrence against Israel after the Damascus strike? They explicitly said so. You can't be good at foreign policy if you only consider things from your own perspective. You'll always arrive at the wrong conclusions.
@FouthTimeLucky There is only 1 way to restore deterrence. And the longer we wait the worse it gets... It should have been done in Ukraine immediately after the invasion.. now we had Oct 7th and this on top, if we wait longer probably Taiwan too...
@FouthTimeLucky Exactly. Sadly, if the West don’t come down hard on Iran, like they failed to come down hard on russia, stuff like this will keep happening! China will be the next one to put their head above the parapet! Yes it could lead to WW3 but if we don’t do something, we all lose anyway!
@FouthTimeLucky Indeed. That the attack occured in the first place signifies that the test was failed. We will fail to respond in any meaningful way, as we have in Ukraine since 2014, thus failing yet another test, and encouraging our adversaries to even greater violence