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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

FTA:

"Israel has called up a record 360,000 reservists"

Gaza has 365 square kilometers. 141 square miles.

https://www.britannica.com/summary/Gaza-Strip

That seems like an awful lot of soldiers to square meters.

[-] JoeHill@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

You do realize that this is likely to become a 3 front war. Lebanon in the north. And Bibi has to cowtow to his settler base in the West Bank.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I could definitely see that, Israel has not been shy about invading Southern Lebanon in the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern_Lebanon

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

And one of those fronts will effectively be with iran. You seriously don't want to fuck with the resources they have to throw into war.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won't have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

I wonder whether most everyday Iranians would support a war with Israel.

Granted, it's not likely Iran gets directly involved - they'll just drive their Hezbollah prop.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won’t have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

I guess it depends on how much the "helping our fellow Muslims" stuff works. I know it would in Egypt at least.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Iran wouldn't need to radically shift their budget... the revolutionary guard gets buckets of oil money and maintains a constant high state of readiness.

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