All those guys cheering here during the pager attacks, weapondepit bombings and command-chain killing by Israel, are they still laughing?
Hezbollah is firing the same amount of rockets every day at the same time on the same cities and the Iron Dome cant stop them.
And they didnt even fired their strongest rockets. Meanwhile this leaderless organisation is pownding the zionist gangs at the border.
Objectively, the demage Hezbollah is doing to Israel is extremely minor in the grand scheme of things. You're talking about the damage / destruction of individual dwellings and the deaths of civilians on a single / low double digit scale. If you look at conflict from a historical perspective, that's a negligible amount damage and death to an enemy.
When it comes to Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon
, we 100% voiced our concerns about that being a head scratching political move by the Israeli Government, that was sure to cause high levels of casualties among IDF soldiers and high levels of destruction among Israeli military hardware. I've always been of the opinion that they could have inflicted much more damage from the air, where they have complete supremacy. Trying to attack Hezbollah on their own prepared turf was and is never going to be easy.
All of that said, Israel
is also doing substantial damage in Lebanon and has inflicted serious damage to Hezbollah (whether you'll admit it, or not). We've also yet to see how they'll retaliate against Iran
. They may be measured in their response, or they might inflict a serious blow to the Iranian economy.
I think it's way too early for any significant analysis of this evolving "hot war". It's still the very early stages.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, USA
sent more F-15s into the region and reinforced squadrons at an undisclosed base. This, after doing the same with F-16 and F-22 squadrons in the region in recent weeks. At the same time, Britain
has advance deployed Eurofighters in Cyprus
to be able to respond if required.
On the naval front, USS Abraham Lincoln and her carrier taskforce remain in the region, loaded with F-18 Superhornets and F-35s. Her Arleigh Burke escorts also pack a serious punch, as do the multiple submarines lurking off the coast in the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps are bolstering personnel in region in case of a hot war. Some 43,000 combat troops and supporters are now in the region (or on route) should Israel need reinforcements on the ground.
It sure looks to be escalating into a pretty serious conflict in the Middle East... And really only one thing is certain. A lot of civilians, on both sides of the conflict, are going to die unnecessarily.