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United States is rapidly increasing support to Israel. This assistance includes the deployment of warships and aircraft to the region, with a second carrier strike group dispatched from Virginia.

Special operations forces are aiding Israel in planning and intelligence, with the initial shipment of munitions already delivered.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to meet with Israeli leaders to discuss further aid. The U.S. is primarily focused on deterring potential regional conflicts, with a particular emphasis on Hezbollah and Iran.

The U.S. is also sending Navy ships, including aircraft carriers, which provide various capabilities, and has ordered additional warplanes for Middle East bases.

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[–] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When was the last time USA sent that much support during which Israel was bombing Gaza, anyone? anyone?

I don't know about you, but I'm now starting to consider something is being cooked.

[–] Waldhuette@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

When was the last time the US had issues with supporting an entity that violates human rights and commits war crimes.

Plenty of examples of the US arming those up. Only to later start a war against them.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The following is all speculation and beyond what little they officially say all we can do is to speculate at this point, but the first hint is how the Hamas terrorist attack surprised every intelligence agency out there.

Egypt only vaguely warned of “something big going to happen”. The Mossad also surely has Palestinian informants in Gaza and yet didn’t manage to get any intel about the attack. That’s not normal at all, and no I don’t think Iran is all that powerful to be able to help Hamas not only coordinate the attack but to also do the preparations in a way that went unnoticed by intelligence agencies for a long time.

My money for now is on Russia being directly involved to open a new front against the West and distract from Ukraine, otherwise the orders by the UK and the US to send warships there make no sense, the US just sent its second carrier today.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure why you are being downvoted. Of course Russia is involved. They are allied with Iran and Hamas is a proxy for Iran. The next action will be in Asia unless cooler heads prevail.

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s just a simple thing with russia: they always support the right opposite of what USA supports even at the cost of supporting terrorists such as Hamas. That’s simply sad.