1- A massive strike on Israel was not Iran's purpose, which was -- non-exhaustively -- (a) demonstrate that Israel's AD and intel are passable, thus laughing at and collapsing, in world opinion, their loud arrogance, (b) study Israeli AD and its radar, and (c) deplete Israeli munitions, which go off at cost and resupply differentials orders of magnitude discrepant as between them and Iranian munitions.
[Iranians studied Russian UAV operations in The Ukraine, applied lessons learned yesterday: echelon in, first drones (prop, slow), then cruise missiles (jet but subsonic), then ballistic missiles (rocket, supersonic, extremely expensive to shoot down), and then hypersonics (undetectable to Israel, US-EU, unstoppable). It's an ancient military tactic updated for modern munitions. BTW, Russia is on open-source public record with ability to shoot down hypersonics. No other country can do this.]
2- US-EU verbal responses, and their absences, demonstrate the incapacity of those powers to protect Israel as well as their unwillingness to do so if that risks harm to themselves -- think, military bases and intel stations all over MENA.
Arrogance is a terrible mistress of woe. The world goes not US America's way any longer. The Chinese recently gave Yellen a nice meal and wished her a safe trip home, having assured her meanwhile that they will trade with whomever it suits them to trade with and however they wish to do it.
A French frigate just broke off operations near Yemen -- to return to base -- because, low and behold, she is out of munitions even while Yemen curates the Red Sea and its southern approaches against French et al. wishes. And France can support ground troops in Odessa? With her logistical capabilities thousands of sea or land miles hence?
[Erdogan lost global respect over his inaction during this matter. He could have cut off 40% of Israel's oil, which comes from Azerbaijan through Ceyhan.]
While Yellen begged the Chinese for help with Russia -- and earlier some US official (Austin?) begged China for help with, IIRC, Iran, Russia, or The Ukraine -- someone in D.C. begged Iran not to hit US bases in MENA after Israel hit Iranian sovereign territory in Damascus.
Ds and Rs in D.C. are curled up in the fetal position, begging not to be hurt by Iran, China, or Russia -- i.e., by BRICS -- because they know they don't have ability to self-protect, much less protect the, to them, strategically superfluous Israel, who are a perpetually galling issue for US cadre officials.
Zionism does not have a seat at
primal big power calculations.
US cadre officials are not hegemons.
They're supplicants. Not bullies, beggars.
Modern Serious Combined Arms War Of Scale.
That's what this is all about. US-EU-Israel cannot even think about doing that -- don't have the intellectual or moral tools, much less an education system to make and maintain said tools (woke, yet) -- and are at least two generations of weapons development behind being able to conduct it. Israel doesn't have indigenously even the potential for modern serious combined arms war of scale. They do have a splendid PR operation. See their numbers today on yesterday's events.
The second shoe has dropped.
Russia took NATO.
Iran took Israel.
Nazism is done.
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