The US has built up a huge force around Iran threatening the same sites struck with Israeli support last summer

“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” one of the sources told Politico under the condition of anonymity.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    Israel already tried this with their 12-Day War and ate shit when their David’s Sling and Arrow system got riddled with ballistic buckshot.

    Do they have an appetite for another active engagement? Idk. Seems like they prefer to go after softer targets

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      No but Trump has an appetite for firing off all the air defenses that the US and Europe could use to resist Russia/give in aid to Ukraine and the air defense missile companies would love to have their buy orders full for the next 10 years from dumping the entire interceptor stock in an intense war with Iran.

      If US service members die in missile strikes on bases in the middle east, all the better for underlining the stock market value of air defense missile companies.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 hours ago

        US and Europe could use to resist Russia

        Grizzlies owner Robert Pera’s tech company linked to Russia in war, per report

        Telecommunications equipment made by the company of Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera is being used by the Russian military in its war against Ukraine, according to a report from Hunterbrook Media.

        …

        In the report, Hunterbook Media revealed video where Wi-Fi equipment made by Ubiquiti is being shown on the front lines in the Russia-Ukraine war. The equipment reportedly has helped Russia use drones that have targeted civilians in Ukraine.

        “Without Ubiquiti, these drones in Russia, the ones leading to massacres, would not work,” Hunterbrook reporter Sam Koppelman said on the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast on Jan. 27. “They would be flying blind.”

        The US and Europe are profiting massively off this conflict. They don’t want it to end.