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Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel (www.commondreams.org)

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

Oh fuck.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Is anyone really alarmed, this was inevitable.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 11 points 1 month ago

100 troops is not enough to invade Iran, you silly armchair-general fucks commenting here.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Not the point.

What happens when Iran manages to kill an American soldier a week before the election?

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

No, but 100 dead troops is enough to grandstand about to get enough outrage to justify an all-out war in the region.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless the US military is stupid to keep all 100 of them in a single easily bombable location, there's no fucking way on this green earth a single one of them will die in any combat, especially if they are simply manning air defense outposts spread across the country like what the article that no one here reads actually said.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, Air Defense is a priority target in missile saturation attacks because it makes it easier for follow on missiles to hit their targets.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So why did he send them? To help with tel aviv mcdonalds understaffing issue?

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

As an aside, "THAAD battery" sounds like someone harnessed exasperation towards a rich kid and converted it into electricity 😁

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They got lithium? Or oil? Or Jesus Christ! They got jeebus?

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