I’m missing something here. Admittedly, I’m making the assumption that blowing up hospitals is a bad thing to do.
There’s two answers that are both legitimate.
The first is that we don’t have any sort of defensive weapons between Israel and Gaza. To intercept missiles/bombs/whatever
Stuff like the Phalanx and RIM-116 at sea; or C-RAM (technically it’s the “land based phalanx system”…. But there are some critical difference in radar and the munitions it uses.
The second answer is that the US navy hasn’t been ordered to. They haven’t been ordered to because their civilian leadership is 100% okay with Israel bombing the fuck out of Gaza. Yes, that includes Biden.
What everyone else said, but also Iran probably informed the US through an intermediary when they are going to launch from where they’re going to launch and what the trajectories were going to be.
This would allow them to have their proportional response, but also de-escalate with the US, allowing them to shoot it all down, and at least from the US’s perspective prevent upward escalation
If that’s true that’s actually fucking hilarious
“Look man we gotta make this look legit or else my wife is gonna be SO MAD at me.”
you have no idea how much that happens with foreign policy. it’s not about right or wrong when it comes to foreign policy. countries don’t have friends or morals they have interests both international and domestic. That can change on a dime.
That’s what MAD was about all this time
Politics. US is ally with Israel but notxwith Iran, US isn’t the world police but a country defending their interests which includes their allies.
I somehow hope, that this slow drone attack is also some political theatre like, we shoot some drones to protest our embassy bombing, but we won’t go further
Why would US give Hamas more reasons to use hospitals as military bases?
There are no more hospitals in Gaza (because Israel destroyed every single one). And they have yet to show any evidence of Hamas using the hospitals as military bases.
Oh ho ho, you innocent child you. Sit down and allow me to tell you a story. It starts many decades ago and involves a Prince, some angry free thinkers, JFK, Anna Nicole Smith, and a smaaaaall aubergine 🍆.
The wrong assumption you’re making is that Israel is blowing up hospitals.
You’re probably thinking about the blast in Al-Ahli Hospital in October, that was ruled by both the US and most news agencies as a failed Islamic Jihad launch.
Why would we stop them from attacking the hospitals that Hamas is using as bases? We’re not going to bind the hands of our allies when they are defending themselves.
