Bahahaha sure you will Qatar. You're going to deeply impact your nation's own economy and damage all of your political ties to make a moral argument about Palestine?
Who cares about your mood?
Mood ? when the fuck did I even talk about mood?
Consider that you go mad about many of my opinions regarding the legality of Putin's war in Ukraine, I think it is time for me as well to question your own justifications in Gaza.
your problem mate
Yes, I'm putting you on ignore lists. bye !
Winter is coming right ? What a timing
I actually think the author has some points here. That's why I've been saying that if Israel has their own soldiers best interests in mind, they'll priotize air strikes and artillery barrages, rather than conduct a ground war against the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. They possess significant advantages from range, but far less so from the ground.An interesting piece by Andrew Axuum a retired U.S army officer and ME scholar about Israel, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Israeli Military Wasn’t Ready for This
The notion of an indomitable Israel Defense Forces is overdue for a revision.www.theatlantic.com
In summary:
1. While the IDF professional core is extremely polished and capable, the Israeli army is and remains a conscript/reservists-based army, the reservists are neither particularly well trained nor well disciplined by American standards.2. Today Israel faces highly disciplined and motivated nonstate foes in southern Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and its military does not seem to have a clear advantage over them at the unit level.3. The segregation of Palestinians and the erection of walls helped the IDF to be in the dark about HAMAS movements.4. The few Hezbollah fighters he met in 2006, for the most part, as motivated, well-trained, and disciplined. Those who fought in the 2006 war with Israel retained a certain amount of wary respect for the U.S. military but held their Israeli adversaries in contempt. They had seen Israeli soldiers in action—and had not been impressed.5. IDF has discipline issues,: In 2006, Hezbollah was able to locate Israeli positions by intercepting Israeli reservists calling home on their mobile phones.6. Hezbollah fighters he interviewed also give little appreciation when it comes to Iran : "A friend of mine questioned a Hezbollah fighter after 2006 about the training he had received from Iran, and his interlocutor scoffed in reply, “Iran? When was the last time those guys won a war?”
Come on man, the drama in this post is beneath you. "The Europeans came begging"... They didn't want to pay Russia for their natural gas and help the Russians fund their war in Ukraine. Qatar saw an opportunity to step in, with American support and make a shit ton of money selling gas to the EU. You act like the Qatar did Europe a favour and filled up their natural gas reserves for free.
No, on the contrary, most European countries did not have a proper infrastructure and experienced bureaucrats to import LNG. They were in disgrace. And most importantly, they had to find LNG before the natural gas in the warehouse ran out.
The Kyiv assault an absolute disaster for the Russians. One of the best decisions they've made in the war war abandoning that plan before that entire convoy was shattered.
I think it could be an excellent fight as well. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, they dropped 29,000 air launched munitions on Hussein's troops prior to commencing the offensive. I don't think Israel will be anywhere near that initially. They'll need substantial shipments of air launched ordinance from the United States to keep that level of drone / missile strikes up. They'd need a large numbers of JDAMS for 1000 and 2000lb bombs, paveway bombs, bunker busters and cruise missiles. I'm also curious to see how many GMLRS they're able to get into the fight, as well as precision 155mm artillery rounds. I genuinely have no clue how many of those ground launched, precision munitions that Israel has. Furthermore, they'll really have get their drones involved. Hellfire missiles could be excellent support with the help of spotter drones, without putting their more vulnerable (and expensive) Apache helicopters at risk.
Operation Desert Storm are classic theater maneuver battle, not urban warfare where advances are measured street-by street.
