226

The Pentagon has confirmed it is sending a THAAD missile defence system and US troops to Israel, publicly acknowledging that US troops will be on the ground assisting in Israel's defence.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 day ago

Yuck... That's fucking disgusting. I feel physically sick reading this.

They're telling Israel to slow down with the attacks and sending weapons and soldiers at the same time.

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They're air defense operators, just like gets deployed around Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure.

If you want to feel bad about anything, it's that this will significantly reduce the likelihood that Iran can threaten Israel with ballistic missiles.

THAAD is really good at what it does, and something tells me that the Iranians aren't going to want to waste their entire stock pile on fruitless saturation attempts. To say nothing of their concerns of killing American troops.

As in, this provides Israel even greater latitude on their quest to start a hot war with Iran, without dramatically increasing any threat to their military bases and government buildings. Well, at least not from ballistic missiles.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 19 points 20 hours ago

As in, this provides Israel even greater latitude on their quest to start a hot war with Iran, without dramatically increasing any threat to their military bases and government buildings. Well, at least not from ballistic missiles.

That's also a very good point. It's like shielding a bully while they continue to bully other people. While I wouldn't mind seeing that bully getting smacked by the other people they oppress, I also don't want to see more people dying either. However, I know Iran has been targeting military targets and not civilian ones. So...

Anyway, this is all just fucked up and I want to see an end to this senseless violence and death, and I want to see Israel getting what they fucking deserve. That is the whole country should cease to exist in terms of land and borders and the land be returned to Palestinians after what they fucking did.

load more comments (14 replies)
load more comments (21 replies)
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
226 points (98.3% liked)

World News

32199 readers
1088 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS