• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexbear
    17
    2 months ago

    I haven't been following Lebanon border stuff at all. How unusual is 40 rockets compared to an "average" day. Not that unusual?

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexbear
      14
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      An average day is 2-6. This is a significant response to a very large movement of materiel (tanks and trucks) Israel has performed in the last few days. Speculation: I think Israel was planning to redivert resources away from Gaza in an effort to invade and Hezbollah are choosing not to wait for that.

  • @420stalin69
    hexbear
    10
    2 months ago
    1. Israel moves military assets from Gaza to near Lebanon
    2. Israel strikes Iranian embassy
    3. Israel hopes it triggers Iranian retaliation supported by Hezbollah (we are here)
    4. Israel “needs to defend itself” from Iran and Hezbollah so it invades Lebanon and razes Beirut
    5. Jared Kushner tweets about rebuilding “Paris on the Mediterranean” but this time make it white