Quote Originally Posted by Omegstrat6 View Post
Don't know whether it was Green Lit for them to save face or not, but despite the sheer number of drones/missiles launched there is definitely something a bit "off" about the attack.

I don't think anyone would argue that, despite Iran's numerical advantage, Israel does not have a far greater technological one thanks to US aid and support. Given the known successes of Ukraine in shooting down the vast majority of Russian drones/ missiles and the highly unlikely scenario that Iran was not aware of Israel's much touted "defensive dome", something does not seem straight forward about Iran's attack. Certainly, if it was a serious attempt then it failed but given that Khamenei has always seemed wary of drawing Israel -and certainly the US- into a direct conflict there is a logical possibility that this was an attack meant more to be a "show of face" than to cause any real damage which would, in turn, have provoked a severe retaliation. Conspiracy theory? Maybe, but the stakes are high and political manoeuvring ofen nefarious. Just hope Netanyahu heeds the calls for resraint.
The regimne's choices were limited contrary to the media and experts.
Lebanon is in crisis domestically and Hezbollah with all it's missiles there would cause ruin to an already collapsed economy for the locals. Remember outside of southern Lebanon, there is no great support for Hezbollah and many would happily see them get a shattering from Israel.
Hamas is tied up at the moment.
Yemen is under going a famine across the country and can not reach Israel.
They had to break cover and fire directly at Israel. They did and they failed. They were showing blazing fires in Chile and reporting it was a strike on Israel proper. Straight out of the standard dictator's manual. lies lies and more lies.
Like we found out about Russia with it's invasion of the Ukraine....they are not what their own propaganda would have us believe.
China's so called fence sitting will be causing splinters for them.
Perhaps they should go for Taiwan now. A s s holes the lot of them.