Quote (PapaPsych @ Aug 2 2024 09:13pm)
The last several months have shown IDF cannot even defeat hamas in gaza, point taken the other day they resorted to terrorist assassinations of hamas politicians abroad.
Last time Israel fought Hezbolla in 2006 they got their asses kicked and retreated accomplishing nothing of their objectives.
Hezbolla isn't made up of prisoners in a concentration camp like Gaza is, they have modern arsenal of anti personnel equiptment, they have much, much more manpower than Hamas does in Gaza.
For Israel to get into a conflict with them Airpower alone will not accomplish objectives, they need to commit 100K boots on the ground in the north.
Something Israel doesn't have ready, also Israel doesn't like casualties, that's what caused them to pullout on 06.
Israels go to strategy right now appears to start a war with all of its neighbors and call on the US armed forces to do the fighting and dying.
To the first point, I agree so far as that Israel has taken its sweet sweet time conquering Gaza, forsaking the hostages still there. But that is not because they lack the means, it's purely optics in submission to America, which is currently headed by a degenerate regime which views barbarians as innocent victims and thus pandering to the hordes of lumpenproles. Israel has more than enough means to wipe out all life in Gaza, but they don't because then the genocide blood libel would actually have merit.
Did Israel ever really fight Hezbollah? They willingly (and foolishly) gave control of Gaza to the barbarians and chickened out of confrontation - that doesn't amount to military defeat, it amounts to brain dead policy. They've had this bizarre policy for over half a century, it's an absurdity that Gaza and the "West Bank" even exist as pseudo-states. Hezbollah has been launching attacks against Israel for years, which is far and beyond
casus belli, to near-zero effect - because they're wholly impotent. A chihuahua biting at a tiger.
I think Israel is past the weakness of worrying about casualties at this point - they've already suffered many in the present conflict. Israel already won a war against all those enemies at once in 6 days - they remember this, and they're not so foolish as to forget it. The might of Israel compared to enemies at once is still asymmetrical - a pack of chihuahuas against a tiger is just more food for the tiger.