Unfortunately, the Middle East has blossomed into the real thing. Most Americans don’t yet realize it, but they will, soon enough. From Patrick Lawrence at scheerpost.com:
It Just Got Very Real.
Amid the tit-for-tats along Israel’s border with Lebanon over the past few weeks, the Houthis’ shelling of Red Sea traffic and repeated assertions that the U.S. does not want to widen the Gaza crisis into a regional war, I started thinking of that twilit interim in 1939–1940 known in history as “the phony war.” Has the world entered another such passage—another war we do not want to think is a war but is a war we do not want to see?
That question seems far away now, an intellectual flinch. America, mindlessly loyal to the frothing dog known as Israel, has wandered into another war the way our president wanders away from podiums and off television news programs while the cameras are still rolling. This is a 21st century war, replete with attacks, denials, proxies and indirection, and with no formal declaration. But we may as well declare it ourselves so we understand our moment properly. America is once more at war.
The U.S. had for weeks refrained from responding to the Houthis, who, in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza, have since November staged dozens of drone and missile attacks on commercial ships sailing through the Red Sea. These now include U.S. and British vessels and a U.S. warship. The Biden regime’s stated concern was that it did not want to risk sparking a conflict that would spread through the region and, in particular, provoke the Islamic Republic. The Pentagon, in the role of lumbering giant, also acknowledged that there was little U.S. forces could do to stop the Houthis’ operations.
Jerry called it the Sitzkrieg and Das Homeland should always remember that WAR comes home.
Germany lost because they weren’t on TOTAL WAR (h/t-Goebbels) footing until it was too late and the down to tactical level strategic micromanaging by the Austrian Adolf who wasn’t trained.
Also as a long gone professor bud said, you have to be bat guano to invade Russia who has the ultimate made for ground and soil battle army.
Wars and rumurs of proxy wars?! Oh my.