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Why does the U.S. military think they need to get involved in every conflict in the world?
$$$$$$
How are the defense contractors, and politicians going to get PAID if we aren’t constantly at war somewhere.
You don't maintain the trillion dollar funding of a war machine by avoiding conflict now do you? That would be silly...
Israel is a US client state - and it's obvious to the US that Israel is not as capable of dealing with the situation as they had hoped.
Because it's presumably cheaper to park an aircraft carrier in the area than to take the economic impact at home that an escalation would lead to (due to rising oil prices etc.)
It's not cheaper for the country, but it is more profitable to the private military contractors
Tell me where do you think the middle East would be if Russia or China or any other nation was simply allowed to operate in that region with zero consequences? Ignoring Russia and China, how about letting those countries develop nuclear weapons with zero concern of backlash? You think the things that happen over there will never effect Western nations if simply ignored. You think diplomatic pressure has any effect if there is not some potential for military action.
Not American myself but I do realize that sometimes the world needs policing. Failing to act is much the way WWI and WWII began. In this day and with the weapons we now possess, we can never afford to have those kinds of conflicts again. I don't live in a fantasy world.
Failing to act is much the way WWI and WWII began
Actually, it's kind of the opposite, at least for WWII, the reparations Germany had to pay, and all the restrictions and other crap the rest of the world made them do after WWI is a direct cause of WWII.
To be sure. But it was the inaction allowing Germany to arm then invade country after country before they decided to get involved.
It is silly to think leaving a vacuums will not be filled and nearly every other option is worse. The US is not a perfect democracy but I certainly prefer them over Russia or China.
Nobody can escalate this conflict except me and my little brother Israel.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war”, as residents of Gaza City fled south to escape an imminent Israeli ground attack in response to a murderous rampage by Hamas last weekend.
The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said late on Saturday that the presence of the USS Eisenhower and its affiliated warships in the eastern Mediterranean signalled Washington’s “ironclad commitment to Israel’s security and our resolve to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this war”.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that Ali Qadi, a commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba unit who oversaw the attack on Kibbutz Nirim, was killed in a strike on the southern town of Khan Younis.
Blinken said he was also trying to ensure the conflict did not spread, on a day when Iran’s foreign minister warned that Israel would suffer an earthquake if his country’s ally, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, became involved.
The US president, Joe Biden, spoke to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the phone on Saturday and “affirmed his support for all efforts to protect civilians”, the White House said in a statement, which did not specifically mention Gaza.
“President Biden discussed with prime minister Netanyahu US coordination with the United Nations, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and others in the region to ensure innocent civilians have access to water, food and medical care,” the White House said.
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