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Is this really where we go to war with Iran? Haven’t these incidences been happening for the past while? How is this one any different?
Are you not following global events since October 7th? America has positioned itself to go all-in defending Israel and is willing to start a 5 front war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansarallah in Yemen, Iraqi resistance groups in Iraq, Assad's government in Syria and the Palestinians themselves. They are fighting Iran already by fighting all of Iran's allies in the region simultaneously. The neocons figure they need to go for the throat instead of getting attrition hybrid warfared by proxies and spread thin, and they are not wrong in this assessment. US empire and domination in the Middle East is at a precipice, they either need to go all in (go for Iran, likely with nukes eventually unless Iran gets some ASAP for MAD) or they need to back off and withdraw from the region with their tail tucked between their legs, leaving behind all their investments and petro-dollar dominion.
It is escalating sharply and has been for some time to full on regional total war. Strait of Hormuz is closing soon at this rate. Iran is a regional superpower and they have a lot of ties and investments to all of these groups being increasingly attacked by US/UK/Israeli air strikes and missile strikes.
I’ve been following loosely mostly due to work stuff, but I understand the gist of it. I guess my main point is since the ground invasion, attacks on US bases in the region have increased and I’m sure these are not the first Americans to be killed from those attacks. Are these the first attacks from “Iran backed militias” or something? Why is this attack so special that war with Iran (which in my honest opinion would be a huge blow to the American empire because we would not win, which is another reason I don’t think this is as big of a deal as others think) seems to be on everyone’s lips?