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.
Conspiracy? It’s extremely likey.
And unfortunately for Ukraine it will most likely work.
Russia has a huge gain as a result of this Hamas attack,
Right when the us house is paralyzed to make decisions too,
Timing is crazy perfect,
So perfect I’d be questioning if Gaetz had an voice in his ear to trigger the the US house fiasco
I’m sure Matt Gaetz still thinks he has independent thoughts
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.
It’s not physical interactions of the US helping Israel. Israel is already armed to the teeth and have everything they need.
It’s the political distraction. US Politicians, Media, will all be focusing on Israel for the next who knows how long, and Ukraine will be a side story.
Certainly a possibility, but I almost think US quietly supporting Ukraine will make it easier, since it won’t be in the far right zeitgeist as much. Ukraine needs financial and military support. Passing bills individually for Ukraine is getting harder. Tacking another line item on to a “Support Israel” bill that provides military and financial assistance to Ukraine may be easier than new bills aimed at just supporting Ukraine would be.
Edit: to be clear, I’m hoping Ukraine gets more support from this, as my personal view is strongly in support of Ukraine. I don’t know that this will pan out that way, but I see a potential angle for it if democrats have the savvy to do it.
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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Wall Street Journal reported that officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have partnered with Hamas since August to prepare for the breach of Israel’s borders.
Representatives for the Israeli Defense Force and Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.
Hezbollah focused missile strikes on a contested portion of the Israel, Lebanon, and Syria border on Sunday, according to reporting by the Associated Press.
There have been no widespread reports of involvement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in this weekend’s conflict in Israel outside of helping to plan the attack by Hamas forces.
The declaration of war this weekend is an escalation of decades of tension between the two groups since the founding of Israel in 1948, including the forced evictions of Palestinians from newly-declared Israeli land, and years of deadly missile strikes exchanged between the two nations.
The Washington Post reported US officials said Sunday they expect Israel to launch a full-scale ground invasion in the next 24 to 48 hours.
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Link to the original article: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25
wtf the pic looks like fireworks unironically… so sad to know that it’s nothing like a wholesome thing.
