• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    knowing it would pull the attention of the US away from its war with Ukraine.

    Nah, the US isn’t directly involved in Ukraine and it won’t be directly involved in Israel either so it doesn’t diminish our attention or our capability. The US Military is currently setup to handle our direct participation in multiple regional conflicts simultaneously so a couple of proxy wars isn’t taxing in any meaningful way.

    Frankly all this will likely do is force a pile of squabbling US politicians to get their shit together and focus. Oh, and if they can prove that Russia was involved in an attack on Israel, even tangentially, then the US is probably going to hand Ukraine the Hammer of Thor and tell 'em to go nuts.

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      Nah, the US isn’t directly involved in Ukraine

      What? Where do you draw the line as ‘directly involved’ … does a American Solider need to literally pull a trigger?

      Of course the US is directly involved in Ukraine. They are doing everything in Ukraine expect for the literally pulling a trigger

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        Where do you draw the line as ‘directly involved’ …

        When Uncle Sam is setting up McDonald’s for its own soldiers to eat while US Military Logistics is busy in the background handling 50+ direct shipments of men and materials a day into their operating base.

        They are doing everything in Ukraine expect for the literally pulling a trigger

        BWUA HA HA HA!!! What we’re doing right now isn’t even 3% of what we did in the Gulf. I should post that damn Shaggy “1% of my power” meme because it’s vastly closer to the truth than what you seem to believe.

        If the US was directly involved we’d have Air Superiority in Ukraine in less than a week and within 30 days both East and South Ukraine would look like the surface of the moon. Russian ground forces would literally be fighting in the shade of skies filled with F-35s, F-16s, Apaches, and Tomahawks. B-2s would be running non-stop missions from the States and the US Navy would be blasting the holy hell out of anything that twitched.

        THAT is what it looks like when the US gets directly involved. All we’re doing right now is playing patty-cake. We have oodles of military and diplomatic capacity to spare for Israel. It’s not even a question and if you think its any different, well, I suggest you rewatch some footage from GWOT and Gulf War I.