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Will Israel’s War Expand? And will Netanyahu bring the U.S. along for the ride?
The American Conservative ^ | 4/9/24 | Douglas Macgregor

Posted on 04/10/2024 4:28:30 PM PDT by hardspunned

In the history of U.S. foreign and defense strategy, no presidential administration ever cultivated the rise of new, powerful groupings of nation states that oppose the United States in every sphere of meaningful human endeavor on the scale of the Biden administration. In a world of competing blocs, much of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and several European states are now united by events in Ukraine and the Middle East to overturn America’s global dominance. Seventy-four years ago, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed the hope that access to more accurate information would prevent future generations of Americans from stumbling into war “at the whim of the man who happens to be president.” Eisenhower was referring to the provocative policies of President Franklin Roosevelt that pushed a recalcitrant American public into a two-front war in Asia and Europe when the U.S. Armed Forces were not capable of decisive operations in just one theater of war.

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“In the history of U.S. foreign and defense strategy, no presidential administration ever cultivated the rise of new, powerful groupings of nation states that oppose the United States in every sphere of meaningful human endeavor on the scale of the Biden administration.”

The money quote of the entire Biden Administration.

1 posted on 04/10/2024 4:28:30 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Hopefully, and hopefully not. We don’t need to get involved.


2 posted on 04/10/2024 4:35:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: hardspunned

I thought America had decided to side with the Hammies.


3 posted on 04/10/2024 4:38:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: hardspunned

On October 8, 2023 Netanyahu said when this was over the middle east would be changed.

Count on it!!


4 posted on 04/10/2024 4:40:06 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: hardspunned

Israel will do just fine. All we need to do is stay out of their way.


5 posted on 04/10/2024 4:48:43 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: hardspunned

Problem is that Biden and Harris have aligned with HAMAS, accepting their murder, rape, and hostage taking of Americans, giving them aid and comfort, defending them from Israel. We are now on the side of terrorists. Ain’t that great?


6 posted on 04/10/2024 4:51:23 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: hardspunned

Iran hasn’t sought escalation every single day since 10/6/23.

The day the world loves the US is the second to last of earth’s existence.

But hey at least with the bump in oil prices, people with conviction believe wider escalation is coming. Unlike the folks without conviction citing Israeli escalation in lieu Iranian escalation every day for seven consecutive months.


7 posted on 04/10/2024 4:55:29 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Freest Republican

Iran does not want a war. They know, as well as you and I know, that war with Israel will mean war with America. War with America means the Straight of Hormuz gets closed (were you driving in 1973). War with America means the Iranians sink one or more U.S. carriers. God only knows where we go from there.


8 posted on 04/10/2024 5:02:42 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: JimRed

Israel will do just fine. All we need to do is stay out of their way.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I agree with what you said : “we need to stay out of their way”.
But, there are a minority of Republican congressmen right now successfully blocking any funding for arms-deliveries to Israel - as we speak!
That is a big miscalculation, because it’s directly helping Hamas
Thus, a few Republicans are getting in the way of Israel. It’s a shame.


9 posted on 04/10/2024 5:18:04 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: hardspunned

Agree, Iran is content to use proxies.


10 posted on 04/10/2024 5:21:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: USA-FRANCE

Israel has enough wepons to fight off Hamas.


11 posted on 04/10/2024 5:21:51 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: hardspunned

Will Great Britain’s war expand, and will Churchill bring the United Status along for the ride ?


12 posted on 04/10/2024 5:30:57 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: cowboyusa

“Israel has enough wepons to fight off Hamas.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I wish you were right.
The problem is that Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Islamists, and beyond Hamas... Hezbollah could be activated at any time. Hezbollah have tens of thousands of terror-fighters ready and heavily armed. If they go all in with Iran, Israel will need way more US weaponry. We need to arm them now, before Israel attacks the terrorists in Rafah. All hell will break loose when that happens.


13 posted on 04/10/2024 5:43:25 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: hardspunned

What “Israel’s war?”


14 posted on 04/10/2024 5:49:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Funding is a smokescreen. We are selling weapons to them.


15 posted on 04/10/2024 5:56:04 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: JimRed

The Deep State is funding both sides, the better.to keep the war going.


16 posted on 04/10/2024 6:01:08 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: cowboyusa

USA should not get involved

And they won’t

I truly believe the USA is there to make sure Israel doesn’t use it’s nuclear weapons

That’s why I believe the USA brought in their ships. That’s not a source that’s my personal opinion.

USA needs to stay out. And israel needs to use any weapons they have.

A world without Iran is a much tranquil world.


17 posted on 04/10/2024 6:04:37 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Do you really think the majority of US citizens think that?


18 posted on 04/10/2024 6:13:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: hardspunned

McGregor is a waste of oxygen.


19 posted on 04/10/2024 6:13:12 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: JimRed

That’s the one thing they will never do


20 posted on 04/10/2024 6:14:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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