the israelis would give them some sort of a heads up today we just don t know exactly the level of detail that they provided at this point, lawrence. edquickly , running out of times here, what is the united states hoping for from israel on this one? or is it, there is a ds here, whether they say it publicly or whether it is something that they signal th privately to the iranians, we are not looking to escalate this further, this doesn t end the conflict, the proxy conflict between israel and iran but this kind of exchange of direct fire, this is over. one of the main u.s. interest since october 7th has been avoiding an all out war between israel and iran or even an escalation of the war that is in gaza to places like lebanon, kind of full-scale point i think that will continue to be the focus of the biden administration tomorrow is just trying to contain this. so that it doesn t continue to u
a tremendous attack capability of their own, after strike fighters, that can, without question, penetrate iranian airspace and go after strategic targets. the two hammers are out. tw the question is, what will the iranian student! one can only hope the biden admin, sector blinken, and others, they will be on the phone wanting to back off what looks like an impending major escalation of the war, which will devastate iran and possibly draw in other belligerents at the same time. hi how if a hurdle is that for secretary blinken to try to do something like that, given the tensions between these two countries? the actions they have taken in the last week, general. well, you know, there is no logic to the scale of violence
billion by the end of the week, as speaker johnson is now er promising, that will make a big difference right now. ukrainians are having a hard in time just fighting back because they don t have ammunition. they don t have the basics to fight their war against the russians. they need assistance and the $60 billion, obviously, is a big, big ticket for them. so in that sense, obviously, a war in gaza, a war with iran is prompted, the republicans in ed the house, to finally get going with the security measures. it might not work out best for putin but he is more happy for the united states to be drawn into a middle east war where he thinks that we will therefore not be as focused on his actions in europe. general, as peter said, the white house, president biden does have his hands full, what could this escalation mean going forward for the relationship between president biden and prime minister netanyahu? obviously, there is a major threat to the region of war unbounded, taking place
just today, the, cia director, william burns, called iran s attack on israel over the weekend a spectacular failure . given that, do you believe israel made a mistake by responding in this fashion? israel makes its calculations based on what he at believes it has to do and the unprecedented nature of this iranian assault on israel, over 300 missiles and drones that came after israelis, as though they had responded somehow in kind. unfortunately in the middle east, and i for an argument retaliatory mind-set is very strong. so president biden was hoping that the israelis would go into, as you say, take the win and pocket it and not do something that could, in fact, lead to a dangerous escalation point i do not believe, at this
that is a good question, they locked down the white house right now point the normal sources are keeping quiet because they want to see how this plays out. they want to see how far this goes. it will depend on the scope and the scale of this operation is this something that is of a ha restrained enough nature that potentially iran does not feel a the need to respond in kind or is the kind of overwhelming operation that will trigger that escalation that andrea talked about. this is exactly is than error that president biden was afraid of. on october 7th last year and every day since then, he did not want the war in gaza to spread beyond that enclave to the rest of the region and here we are now for the very first time in decades, israel and iran striking each other s home territory, not just the proxies in iraq and syria where they had a shadow war for years. this is their home territories, in a significant way. you are hearing the white house, jake sullivan, the national security adv