that they struck near an army base, near sensitive of nuclear site that was that was designed. i have to think unless there were some accidental targeting here that that was designed to send a message. yeah, look, there s the real balancing in all of these responses. and for israel, they have to be thinking about the fact that just over last weekend, iran shot ballistic missiles into israeli territory. those are misses that potentially could carry a nuclear warhead that is extraordinary. and if you think about that from the israeli perspective that puts their entire defense doctrine under duress. and so they needed to establish some type of deterrence and demonstrate to the iranians, we can hit your nuclear facilities first. and so by hitting isfahan in the area near nuclear facilities, you re telling me iranians don t even try it. and then of course, hitting some military infrastructure, batteries, whatnot said the ability
game, despite the fact that they re in uncharted territory. so the iranian response, just like you said, didn t cause a significant damage. it was, it was an amazing display of air defense, such as the world, i don t think, has ever seen. although it s difficult for me to say, just on the basis of what we know observing it, that that was the intended result. they did fire at what they considered the origin of the attack on damascus, the airbase in the . and, and a lot of the calculus around the response right now stems from this. so when biden tells israelis, when president biden tells prime minister netanyahu to take the win, we have to understand that whatever you think about netanyahu, not responding in this situation is somewhat at odds with basic israeli dna in situations like this. first of all, israelis are very concerned, as part of the israeli defense doctrine with deterrence, not just, nonnuclear discerns necessarily the way it s used here, but
The Blair and Brown governments have reduced British defensespending as a share of GDP to its lowest point since 1933. Theforces are being ordered to do more with less. The U.S. shouldexpand joint development and production deals with Britain toassist British efforts to rebuild its forces and to ward offEuropean efforts to ensnare Britain in an enhanced ESDP.
The Blair and Brown governments have reduced British defensespending as a share of GDP to its lowest point since 1933. The forces are being ordered to do more with less. The U.S. shouldexpand joint development and production deals with Britain toassist British efforts to rebuild its forces and to ward offEuropean efforts to ensnare Britain in an enhanced ESDP.