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Israel is about to Attack Iran
The world may not realize how close we are to another major war of attrition fueling prolonged global inflation
Netanyahu’s coalition government seems to be inching toward disabling Iran’s nuclear facilities sometime this year. Because apparently, nothing says “regional stability” like striking a heavily fortified adversary. Trump’s administration still has enough hawks who think this is a brilliant idea.
Somehow, everyone keeps forgetting that Iran has been preparing for exactly this kind of scenario ever since Saddam Hussein invaded them with Western backing and they had to fight a war of survival with mustard gas and no allies. But sure, let’s see how the fundamentalist regime would take it.
First up, Iran would likely respond with the casual launch of hundreds of domestically produced mid-to-long range ballistic missiles. Emad, Sejjil, Khorramshahr, you name it. These would hit U.S. bases in Iraq, Syria, Qatar, UAE, and Bahrain, and of course Israeli military infrastructure from Dimona to Tel Aviv and the Haifa port. Just to keep things festive, drone swarms, possibly in the thousands, featuring Shahed-136s and newer models refined through real-world combat cooperation with Russia, would rain down on Israel…
