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“U.S. troops being deployed to Israel in this matter is seismic,” Malekafzali added. “The U.S. military is now inextricably involved in this war, directly, without any illusions of barriers. Netanyahu is as close as he has ever been to his ultimate wish: making the U.S. fight Iran on Israel’s behalf.”

Israel’s cabinet met Thursday to discuss a potential response to Iran’s October 1 missile barrage. One unnamed Israeli source told The Times of Israel that “no big decisions” were made at the cabinet meeting. Speaking to reporters earlier this month, Biden said that U.S. and Israeli officials were “discussing” the possibility of an attack on Iranian oil infrastructure.

Iran has warned of a “crushing” response to any Israeli attack.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (19 children)

We have literal Nazis in america, but yeah, let's send all the troops over to the Middle East

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

First off, as with every time domestic terrorism is discussed, US armed forces cannot carry out hostilities on domestic soil.

Second off, it's 100 personnel. Barely a blip on the total number of deployable personnel, and it's an air defense group without offensive capabilities.

Clickbait is clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If the Taliban deployed 100 personnel to the US, would that be an aggressive act?

Let's not forget the US is widely seen as a terrorist state assisting in a genocide here lol

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Massive non sequitur there. Taliban does not have military bases on US soil to fortify with 100 personnel.

I'm not disagreeing that the US is assisting in genocide. Has been for a while, and the top two projected candidates for US presidency will further perpetuate this.

But this 100 troop movement is insignificant and is being played up for drama and clicks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's putting 100 US military personal in place to operate a legitimate military target that will be one of the first things targeted.

We didn't give this to Ukraine, despite them begging for it, because of the implications of US military personal potentially being killed by Russia.

Seriously, to the people acting like the obvious next step to ww3 is no big deal, what happened to your critical thinking skills? Do they go out the window, along with any anti war sentiment, when a Democratic president is in office?

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