The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office, senior Israeli officials tell me.
The Israeli government instructed the IDF to undertake the preparations not because of any intelligence or assessment that Trump will order such a strike, but because senior Israeli officials anticipate “a very sensitive period” ahead of Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20.
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Senior Israeli officials tell me they expect Israel will get prior notice ahead of any U.S. strike against Iran. But they're concerned that won't be sufficient to fully prepare. Thus the order to the IDF to start taking preparatory steps under the assumption that such a scenario is possible.
The only positive aspect of a war with iran would be the damage to the US and possibly the uk. Still an absolute tragedy though.
Thousands of deaths for no reason. It would be a blood bath and we are hardly prepared to fight the kind of war Iran would wage.
Try millions of deaths, and probably the longterm destabilization of countries from bangladesh to europe. I would not be surprised if the resulting wave of refugees would make the war between pakistan and india go hot, and give europe to the fascists. It would be pretty apocalyptic.
I guess I was trying to be conservative (eww gross) but you’re right. I was thinking of just the conflict itself, but yeah it would be spread out like that across the world. The backlash would be insane.
Hell Americans freaked out (me included) when we assassinated solemani and thought we were going to war.