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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Why does the U.S. military think they need to get involved in every conflict in the world?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

$$$$$$

How are the defense contractors, and politicians going to get PAID if we aren’t constantly at war somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

You don't maintain the trillion dollar funding of a war machine by avoiding conflict now do you? That would be silly...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's not cheaper for the country, but it is more profitable to the private military contractors

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Same reason people with small dicks feel the need to get giant trucks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Nobody can escalate this conflict except me and my little brother Israel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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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