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Point all defence systems at the middle east, then just wait.
I'm a proponent of 'I refuse to get fucking involved, you can annihilate each other in isolation'
Unfortunately we don't get a say in it. Such are the wonders of Our Democracy.
Israel can blow up foreign consulates, than the US will back Israel when their enemies predictably respond.
It's such a stupid system. If one of our Allies fucks around and finds out, we really shouldn't be obligated to back them, because it creates a perverse incentive (as do so many of our current systems) to do the aforementioned fucking around and finding out.
Israel attacks Iran > Iran attacks Israel > ??? > US gets involved > Israel gets exactly what it wants.
Israel isn't a formal ally though. We have no treaties with them at all.
It's an interesting grey area. Treaties would require voting. But them buying our politicians never gets voted on.
Anyway, a few missile attacks aren't going to do shit. Iran is pretty far from Israel so how are they ever going to actually "attack" them? In fact this attack is likely to be so ineffectual it's probably a false flag to get us to invade Iran.
You're not. You're not 'backing' your 'allies' because you're obligated to, but because you want to. Even NATO does not require a military response or any sort of response, if you actually read article 5. It's a promise of doing absolutely nothing.
States uphold their 'obligations' based on whether it is in their interests to do so. The most famous example being Italy refusing to join the Central Powers in 1914. Unfortunately, that is often the interests of the corrupt elites, not the people.
The irony here is that, despite being on the winning side by joining the entente in 1915, Italy basically came out of the war as if it had been on the losing side. England and France basically reneged on all their promises used to induce them to flip sides.
Well, Italy also fought the war like it was on the losing side... as usual, losing a great number of men for almost no strategic objectives.
The Biden Admin will use this as a pretext to drag NATO into WWIII
We are already in WWIII. It'll prob be in the history books that it started in 2014, with the CIA coup of Ukraine government, or 2022 with the Russia invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Though.. I guess it depends on who wins. If there is a winner.
Right now we're in that phase of escalatory events, until full, overt conflict breaks out.
Depends on who wins. US and the left wins and all the history books will say it's Trump's and Russia's fault.
If the US wins, it will only be because the Left has been decimated.
You bring up an underrated point. A lot of people think the first day of WWIII is going to be when a nuke goes off or tens of thousands of troops engage in hundreds of skirmishes over dozens of countries all at once. The reality is the first day could be a small battle followed by weeks or even months of calm before things really ramp up.
Similar to how Vietnam war started slowly with sending aids to assist the French and I guess the roots of WW2 lie at the end of WW1
If we disregard the Marco Polo bridge incident, the official start of World War II is September 1 with the German invasion of Poland. At the time, only 2 countries were at war (UK and France only declared war in September 3). In the months afterwards, absolutely nothing happened - the Sitzkrieg (sitting war).
If the NATO war on Russia becomes a world war, then 22 February 2022 will retroactively be the start of World War III. In fact, on Wikipedia they've already rewritten history for the war between Russia and Ukraine to start in 2014.
Definitely started with Russia, but the CIA coup is the 'Franz Ferdinand' moment.
Israel isn't a member of NATO.
But it's free to use my country's army: the two soldiers as well as the brooms they use to train.
you are technically involved if you keep paying taxes to fund this
You are already involved, the US backs Israel with tax money and weapons which are produced with more tax money. And rightly so. Israel is the only thing standing between you and the hoards. No amount of fake videos of starving children can hide the facts.
Israel is either unable or unwilling to even defend themselves adequately. The idea that the US needs them is getting more and more disproven.
Israel and their demonic cousins here in the US are responsible for then being shipped here by the million. The Israel problem needs ta final solution.
A world without Israel, can you imagine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2VxpTMAbas&ab_channel=TimPrisc
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