The BBC House of Assad documentary examined this and implied Bashar's brother in law Assef Shawkat (married to Bashar's sister now deceased) orchestrated the assasination. We had a murky relationship with them during the "War on Terror" before they started sending fighters to attack US troops in Iraq, can't get in business with a Mafia family and expect no consequences.
Israel about to invade Lebanon. This will, of course, be another catastrophe for Lebanon. Tens of thousands of refugees, thousands of civilian deaths and wounded, in a country with a divided populace and no functional government.
And gonna use American made and supplied weapons to kill even more civilians with 0 repercussions. Just wonderful.
Of course we jump at the chance to get militarily involved against Iran while providing the means for Israel to massacre tens of thousands of innocents.
Ya had we threatened to destroy Iran’s nuclear program last October they could have got Hezbollah and the Houthis to stand down.
The rest of the world has been for a few decades now and the US and a few other European nations have completely enabled this with their giving them enormous monetary and weapon support.
I mean even if they made Biden the main decision maker of this everything indicates he’d fully support everything Israel is doing.
To be clear, this is Coates on a BOOK TOUR, not a political spinshow segment on CNN. When is the last time you saw someone this combative and disgusting on a book tour appearance even with it being about foreign policy?
sounds like a lot got intercepted including a bunch over Jordan. Probably won’t know the extent of the damage until tomorrow
Probably a lot of nothing, as Israel will intercept most of them. Iran has to strike a delicate balance on a number of fronts. One of those is the risk of actually going for large scale destruction and death and Israel being able to stop it cold. Iran’s control in the region would shrink considerably (and probably already has in the last 6 weeks) if it’s clear they are a paper tiger to Israel. If they telegraph a launch and send all the missiles in easily intercepted formations and intervals, it sells pretty easily as a “for show” response that of course Israel was able to manage. I have no idea what this is. But Iran’s proxy buffer has been pierced and Israel is daring Iran to show up and fight. This of course, is terrible news because the moment this goes from stage managed to hot, the U.S. is in the ball game.
either that or this is his revenge for getting kicked off the ticket. "kick me off the ticket? well fuck you, let's kick off World War III with a regional war in the middle east" I can't imagine anyone in Kamala's campaign is happy Biden's National Security team gave tacit approval and encouragement for Israel to invade a sovereign country 5 weeks before the election.