Tensions are high over the possibility Iran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago.
US officials had told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that a major attack on Israel could happen imminently.
Israel has said it is ready “defensively and offensively”.
“I can’t speak to the size, scale, scope of what that attack might look like,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. But he added that the Iranian threat was “viable,” saying Washington was “watching this very, very closely”.
He said: “We are in constant communication with our Israeli counterparts about making sure that they can defend themselves against those kinds of attacks”.
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The wording is something else.
Ensuring they can defend themselves… against another state defending itself from them?
Whatever. It’s a mess that’s gonna get worse and worse.
“What are causal relationships”, alex
It’d be terrible if they targeted hospitals and kids wouldn’t it.
Likud has caused this, Isreal. I hope this doesn’t materialize but you need to change fucking course.
Good. A period of prosperity usually follows a global conflict (Roaring twenties, 1950s American Dream, etc…)
We’ve been heading down this road for a few years already, all over the world nothing but hatred and bigotry and selfishness seemingly on the rise. Mini conflicts all over the place, and the only super power literally on the verge of electing a fucking dictator. If the eventual result is a global conflict (it is), then let’s just get it the fuck over with so the political systems that remain afterwards can recover like they did post-ww2.
If you want to make seeping, bold, and wrong predictions about the future based on incomplete knowledge of the past, you should try economics.
I was quite literally an Archaeology major with a minor in History. Care to try again?
Honestly, at this point, if I was around, I wouldn’t do shit.
Make them look like they were crying wolf, we can bring back 2003.
Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
Well, countries have the right to defend themselves, as Israel likes to repeat often. Even Iran.
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A few of their people were killed. It’s all the justification needed these days.
Here’s a list of attacks on US diplomatic facilities that often led to wars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_U.S._diplomatic_facilities
Their embassy was attacked in Syria.
Same thing as attacking Iran directly.
