Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a limited number of U.S. troops to prepare for deployment in support of Israel, as reported by multiple sources.
Approximately 2,000 troops have been selected to be on standby for advisory and medical assistance.
The troops will be drawn from various branches of the U.S. military, including those already stationed in the Middle East and nearby Europe.
While their specific units and deployment locations have not been disclosed, it has been emphasized that they will not have a combat role.
The U.S. is extending support to Israel, which is engaged in a conflict with Hamas, primarily focusing on intelligence and planning assistance for potential hostage rescue operations.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a select number of U.S. troops to prepare to deploy in support of Israel, multiple outlets have reported.
About 2,000 such troops were chosen this weekend to be ready to assist with advising and medical support, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
The outlet noted the troops wouldn’t serve in a combat role, and no infantry had been put on prepare-to-deploy order.
Fox News later reported Monday that Austin has given “be ready to deploy” orders for a select number of American troops.
The U.S. has continuously expressed support for Israel after the country was attacked, with the Pentagon over the weekend announcing it was sending a second carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Washington has also sent munitions and interceptors for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system and moved fighter jets to the region.
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Choosing to support no evil may ultimately result in the greatest evil occuring. This is actually the subject of one of the more famous Witcher short stories, and it highlights this very well. I’ll try to quickly summarize.
A wizard tells him to kill this one girl because she was born in a celestial event that was a bad omen. The girl tells him to lure out the wizard so she and her gang can kill him. Geralt refuses both.
The girl confronts the wizard, who is safe behind his tower. Unless he comes out, her gang will start killing the townspeople wantonly. The wizard doesn’t give a shit. Geralt steps in and kills the gang and the girl, and tells the wizard he’ll kill him too if he does anything to her corpse.
The lesser evils were killing the wizard or killing the gang, and Geralt preferred to pick neither of them. But in doing so, an even greater evil became possible. Unless he took action, the worst outcome would come to pass.
This honestly has nothing to do with Israel at this point. I’m just saying that deciding against lesser evils may, in itself, may be a worse evil. Inaction is still an action.
That’s the hard part. We never know what the lesser evil will ultimately be. Knowing though that inaction may be not be the best option is important.
But have you considered how much money the weapons industry shareholders will make?
I do not support this
Just why? Israel is a terrible ally and have continued to allow settlers to move into the West Bank stopping any attempts at a peace process. The US should wipe their hands of this mess instead getting into another quagmire.
because the Christian death cult running the states wants it to happen so their imaginary friend can come back.
Yeah, this is way more serious than people realize. The extremist Christian evangelical movement has a disproportionate amount of influence over Israel and how the world views it. They fund schools, museums, archaeological digs and many other things, but with an obvious bias, and often not in the best interest of anyone but those who share their apocalyptic worldview.
It’s pretty wild, and can come off as a bit conspiratorial, once you realize that much of the American support for Israel is for the purpose of preparing for a world-ending war and the resurrection of a mythical character who lives in a collection of short stories.
A former friends mother lost her Catholic mind to some nonsensical flavor of the evangelical god juice and took a trip with a bunch of other lunatics to Israel. Know what they did? Provided free labor to settlements and farms because it was such a transcendent experience to pay 5-10 thousand dollars to go to the holy land and work for gods original chosen people. They love this shit because it brings the world closer to annihilating itself and the fabled rapture they want so very badly.
So fucking over all these lunatics asking us to respect their religious beliefs that are focused at quickening the end of human existence. Is it so hard to just eat pizza and be grateful for the time we have here?
I know this from personal experience after reading the entirety of the Left Behind book series as they were published. At the start I was spending my summers in the equivalent of that Jesus Camp documentary, and by the time I finished was at the end of my personal deconversion journey and come out the other side as an opinionated college atheist.
So, yeah, quite terrifying to see that kink for the apocalypse continue to play out in front of us.
Yup the far Christian right want all jews in Israel because their book of fiction says all jews need to be in Isreal to bring about the rapture. Remember when Trump said jews should have dual citizenship?
Remember when Trump said jews should have dual citizenship?
No, but I remember when he claimed to be Israel’s Messiah. I sent this article to a family member and they replied “Biden 😅 “ and I replied “Yeah, but trump would do the same and push to use nukes.” They’re not necessarily a D/R, in fact they’re so disgusted, they said voting is useless, they’re sticking to mutual aid (Their state and mine have a gerrymandered voting district map case before the court upcoming).
I think this claim is very overstated. People online often say this, but I’ve never heard of real people saying this.
Attend an evangelical or Pentecostal church for a few months. It’ll come up. They still believe Jesus is coming back and he can’t do so until the temple is rebuilt. Which would require the razing of the mosque.
A family member of mine is a preacher and he and his family are gleefully announcing the end times are here!! It’s happening!! The red heifer has been born!! It’s absolutely disgusting how they want Israel to get rid of the Palestinians so they can get on with the rebuilding of the temple.
I want everything they think is going to signal the end times to happen just so when it doesn’t they have no more excuses.
I know they’ll just reinterpret and invent more, but it would still be funny to the rest of us.
Unfortunately Israel is the only “western aligned” middle east country, so for that reason we go all watermelon eating contest on their bhole
We don’t have universal health care in America and it’s their fault but we pay for them to have universal health care. So no, they’re not our ally, we’re vassals.
It’s Israel’s fault that there’s no universal health care in the US? How?
