Israel Fighting on With Hezbollah Could Trigger US Military Involvement

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There is fighting along a second front with Israel. The main activity has been in the South with Israel, Gaza and Hamas.

Hezbollah has announced the Death of 4 of their Terrorists as a result of Clashes with the IDF along the Border with Lebanon throughout today.

Hezbollah has about three to six times the rockets and troops as Hamas.

Heavy Clashes have been ongoing along the Border with Lebanon and Northern Israel all morning with Israeli Artillery reported to currently be Shelling a number of Militant Positions.

The live combat map for Israel, Gaza and Lebanon is here.

Urgent | Hezbollah: We targeted with direct weapons the Israeli army positions in Zarit, Al-Sadh, Jal Al-Deir, Al-Malikiyah, and Birkat Risha.

Hezbollah: We targeted a gathering of soldiers in the Baranit barracks and caused a number of casualties, including one dead and one wounded.

Hezbollah statement: Today we targeted an Israeli tank in the Ramim barracks and caused casualties

President Biden and Janet Yellen Have Said the USA Can Handle and Afford Two Wars

There are two to three US aircraft carrier groups in the area.

About 2,000 U.S. troops have been told to get ready to deploy in anticipation of the ground offensive. The American soldiers would not be sent to Israel but could be assigned to other countries in the region for support roles such as medical assistance or providing security at gate crossings.

5 thoughts on “Israel Fighting on With Hezbollah Could Trigger US Military Involvement”

  1. Lena Patrova lays out some facts but leaves out others, and also fails to connect the ones she talks about. For example, she talks about how much is being spent to fund overseas wars in Ukraine and Israel, but forgets to mention that most of that circles right back to American defense manufacturers that potentially increases their profits (more on that in a moment) – though she does cite the stock price jumps of those companies. When I wrote my book: America is Not Broke! (2015), the return to the economy of a $1 spent in the defense industry was 80 cents (https://www.amazon.com/America-Not-Broke-Scott-Baker/dp/0996174001/ref=sr_1_1). Not the best investment, by any measure, since military hardware gets blown up when it’s used, and becomes obsolete and deteriorates when it isn’t. But it’s not a zero-sum expense like Patrova implies, either. Even humanitarian aid often comes from American companies and NGOs paid by our government, so that provides jobs and economic stimulus too.
    So, Janet Yellen is right about afforability, even before taking into account the size of the America GDP.
    The stock price jump of defense contractors is premature, however, because these companies have to expand their production capacity, often reluctantly because they don’t know if future expenditure will equal current expenditures and they don’t want to pay for future idled capacity. Their expense now may or may not pay off in future profits. Peter Zeihan makes the case that the post-WWII Breton Woods era is over and conflicts like we’re seeing – in African coups too – is historically normal, not the 70 years or so of relative peace post WWII.

  2. Israel is capable to destroy Gaza but it will turn Middle East into chaos and progress of relation normalization with Arab world will be halted. This is what Hamas want and it’s another strategic failure of US. US rivals like Russia or China are the victors if Middle East turn into chaos. Best option available to US now is trying to control Israel and not let it go too far.

    • Not go too far? Too far as in killing, brutally, women, children and babies? Hamas brought this on themselves, once again. They’re already playing the victim card? Isn’t Palestine an old British prison state?

  3. Likely, Iran has paid North Korea in a joint nuclear weapons program. There could be a deal between them that Iran can transport a certain number of fissile cores to Iran where it could simultaneously launch multiple nuclear bombs on Israel for a real attempt at ending Israel as a country in a day.

    So, Hamas attacks Israel which leads to an Israeli attack in Gaza which leads to Hezbollah launching thousands of missiles on Israeli cities causing Israeli evacuations on the same scale as Gaza.

    Israel hold Iran responsible for both Hamas and Hezbollah. Israeli (and US?) attacks Iran and Iran responds with nukes.

    It’s not difficult to see how this could spiral far out of control.

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