"Coordinated airstrikes hit two US occupation bases in southern and northeast Syria in the morning of 19 October, in the latest escalation against US troops in West Asia since the start of the Gaza-Israel war.
According to informed sources who spoke with Al-Mayadeen, three drones were able to fly above the Al-Tanf base at the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border and launch several successful airstrikes.
“The attack led to a major alert within [Al-Tanf], with continuous flights of military aircraft and helicopters in the area,” Al-Mayadeen reported.
Sources within the US-led coalition that spoke with Iraq’s Shafaq News on Wednesday claimed that the occupation forces “successfully intercepted and downed two of the drones, but the third managed to target the base.”
The US occupation base at Conoco oil field in Deir Ezzor governorate was also hit by multiple rockets.
No group has taken responsibility for the attacks and no casualties have been reported.
Hours before Thursday’s airstrikes on US troops, the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian army in the southwestern Quneitra governorate, causing material damage. Explosions were also reported in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
US troops stationed in Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase were also targeted by airstrikes on Wednesday, which were claimed by the Kataib Hezbollah resistance faction. Although the Pentagon initially claimed its forces repelled the attack, the official story changed to include reports of wounded soldiers as the hours went on.
“The resistance in Iraq has entered the battle of ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ and directed its strikes at US bases,” the military spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah declared on Thursday.
Since the start of the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the Gaza envelope, factions within the Resistance Axis in West Asia have warned they are ready to join the battle against Israel in support of the Palestinian cause and that US occupation troops and bases would become “legitimate military targets” if Washington also decides to enter the fray.
As tensions escalate, the Pentagon has deployed multiple warships and thousands of troops to the Israeli coast. The UK, Germany, and the Netherlands have mobilized troops to support Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians."
I tend to not really worry about the US deployment of nuclear weapons at our current stage. If they use them, in a way they lose their leveraging power. Which is why they have been threatened to be used in so many of the wars the US has created, but only deployed twice, when it was only the US who had access to them. I remember one article I read recently that pointed this out in the context of the invasion of Korea. Despite both Korea and China not having nuclear weapons, and the US feeling a strong desire to use them, it never happened, and the US lost anyway. There were strong considerations for using nuclear weapons in the invasion of Vietnam as well, with the same result. It is what Mao referred to when he described the imperialists as paper tigers. When actually pushed, their cowardice is shown. Isn’treal is demonstrating this now I think, given how immensely incompetent its response to the resistance has been, and the fact that it keeps hesitating to send a ground invasion. It is not in their interest to do all the things they threaten to do, I think. At least not yet? It could change if it was undeniable, even to the most deeply unhinged supporters of the settler colony that their own defeat is inevitable. Which, while it seems to us that it may be, to the settlers. there is still this notion that they have the right to what they have stolen, that it is god’s gift to them, etc. They cannot imagine a world without isn’treal just as the colonial occupiers of the various African colonies thought their reign was permanent. So their state of panic, I think, is not yet to the point of something as drastic as a nuclear attack.
I hope you’re right 🫡