Conspiracy theory time…. Russia asked Iran (who is already helping them against Ukraine) to help Hamas trigger a fight with Israel knowing it would pull the attention of the US away from its war with Ukraine.
I think Russia probably encouraged this, but I think it’s another miscalculation. America is set up at this point to fight proxy wars. Now all that happens is Israel weapons gets added as a line item alongside Ukraine on a defense budget bill that’s now easier to pass. So they may have been involved or just encouraged, but I think it’s gonna backfire.
That seems like a really bad idea considering that the intransigence in the house was doing a pretty good job of blocking aid to Ukraine as is. Doing anything to fuck with Israel seems like It would be obviously encouraging the parties to come to some kind of consensus so they can pass an aid bill to Israel.
If this is a sneaky Russian plot, then they’re even worse at any of this warfare stuff than everyone already suspected.
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.
Conspiracy theory time…. Russia asked Iran (who is already helping them against Ukraine) to help Hamas trigger a fight with Israel knowing it would pull the attention of the US away from its war with Ukraine.
I think Russia probably encouraged this, but I think it’s another miscalculation. America is set up at this point to fight proxy wars. Now all that happens is Israel weapons gets added as a line item alongside Ukraine on a defense budget bill that’s now easier to pass. So they may have been involved or just encouraged, but I think it’s gonna backfire.
That seems like a really bad idea considering that the intransigence in the house was doing a pretty good job of blocking aid to Ukraine as is. Doing anything to fuck with Israel seems like It would be obviously encouraging the parties to come to some kind of consensus so they can pass an aid bill to Israel.
If this is a sneaky Russian plot, then they’re even worse at any of this warfare stuff than everyone already suspected.
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.