No surprise there …
Whoever is pulling the strings of the Short Fat Trump is going to have to accept the fact that the two choices are between a) abandoning Israel to its self-chosen fate, whatever that might be, or b) suffering an abject defeat in the Middle East now that Israel is attempting to drag the US military back into another round of war with Iran.
It’s obvious that Israel wanted to reignite the war, for exactly the same reason they started it. Their odds of avoiding complete defeat are better if the US and its bases are taking the majority of the damage. The interesting question is: why did they restart it via attacking Lebanon? I think there are two reasons.
- If they are going to take any new territory, it’s going to be in southern Lebanon.
- Striking Iran directly means strikes on all the US military bases in the Gulf States again, and there is a real risk of either the Gulf States kicking out the USA or the USA voluntarily withdrawing its forces and leaving Israel to fight Iran alone.
Given the desperate way in which Trump is shouting “Peace is at hand” in direct contradiction to the evidence, I don’t think it’s a guarantee that the US military fully engages in this round. But if it does, I expect things to go even worse for both the US and Israeli militaries, although Israel does appear to be doing better against Hezbollah since the ceasefire started.
I believe that the Israeli decision to attack Beirut had one objective… force the Iranian hand in launching an attack on Israel in hopes of bringing the US back into the war and sabotaging any chance for Trump to sign a Pakistani peace deal with Iran. So far, the Israelis have failed. Donald Trump is staying on the sidelines for now, which has sparked mass hysteria among the neo-cons and Zionist fanatics.
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