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The hard reality is that Israel f****d up badly when they struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus; senior officials rolled the dice, and almost pulled the US and UK into Gulf War III. There are a lot of bills to pay for last nights bail-out, and there will be consequences. The only reason we don't have Gulf War III this morning is because Iran also has very smart generals, who managed to launch a face-saving sovereign-on-sovereign strike that was designed to reliably fail. Now it's purely a personal matter between families; the perpetrators will be known, and its old world 'eye-for-an-eye'. One day ... they will be suddenly gone, the matter closed, and we will all be the safer for it. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/4/why-does-israel-keep-launching-attacks-in-syria Lot of very smart people acted last night; we owe them all an enormous favour. SD

Wow much kudos to Israel….best I can tell from reports their missile defense systems pretty much bested these attacks . It’s embarrassing for Iran how little by way of damage they were able to inflict here…..and quite foolish in a way to reveal how weak they are relative to Israel’s military capability….hopefully this reality seeps through to the Iranian people so that they might constrain their leaders….it would be insane for that countries leadership to pursue a straight out conflict with Israel….but these sectarian regimes don’t live in anything approximating the real world…they hear god whispering in their ear.