US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles.

Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not been hit.

The US president said he reiterated the “ironclad” support for Israel’s security in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has had strained relations over Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said.

“And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people,” he said.

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      Jesus Christ the opening to that video had me guessing for a moment until I calmed down and realized it’s obviously a hypothetical. Given that it’s reported that Iranian officials consider their attack “concluded”, it would be great if all the players stepped away from escalation into open war. The video I linked talks about the pressure on both Iran and Israel to back down, and here’s hoping they do. The world really really doesn’t need yet another open war in the Middle East, USA-involved or otherwise.

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      I have no sympathy for any US soldiers who die defending genocidal states.

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      US will play defense unless Iran does something really stupid and launches a large ballistic missile attack of some kind, or directly attacks US military. Even then, proportional response policy would probably mean strikes against missile facilities only.

      No amount of drones sent against Israel will result in the US opening an actual war with Iran.

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      I think it would be an incredibly unpopular decision by Biden, and the American people would not support a war with Iran. I also think that it would be a tactical mistake, given how many US assets are within Iranian striking distance right now. The US military is having recruiting issues currently, and a war will not help that.

      However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see ISIS attacks in Iran start to happen more frequently.

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        Of course it will be more sanctions, more pressure to other countries to denounce Iran, more proxy war with funding literal terrorist groups and telling them to hit whoever the US doesn’t like, also probably bomb a few Iranian assests because what actually can they do?

        An open war rather requires justified claims. It is gruesome and the horrible results are directly tied to the war. A combination of sinister proxy war, subterfuge, coercion and forced poverty are slow killers and will have way fewer dissidents. It is the name of the game for half of the US oppression policing on the world.

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      I feel like that wouldn’t go down well if the US government tried that.

      Maybe I don’t understand the average American, but it’s certainly seemed like people realized the last wars in the Middle East were a waste of time and life.

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        This might’ve mattered if the state worked for the people, but the only people a bourgois/liberal “democracy” serves are the capitalists. And the US MIC would love more war.