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Economic collapse? Not as long as they get the gibs. Fewer allies? They need only one. Everyone knows that US supports them unconditionally, I don't understand why Redditors think like this? Even the guy below acknowledges the US support, but there is no reflection.
Also, Toxic Zionism? People knowing Palestine history? ok?
And the last comment is epitome of "if you kill your enemies they win".
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Israel has a diversified economy and doesn't rely on US aid. I think that stopped like a decade ago and they didn't even need it then. But if the war goes on forever that's going to mean a big decline in their standard of living.
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Wasn't Israel under constant Arab aggression since forever? What makes this the forever war that will decline their living standards, that were achieved while fighting too?
I know this an escalation, but they had those before and things calmed down for a while after each of those.
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Are you talking about Palestinian terrorism?
Because the last major war was in 1973 and they've had permanent peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan for decades.
What I'm concerned about for them is that again the plan apparently is to occupy South Lebanon forever. Assuming anyone has a plan. I think they're just drifting into this again with no strategy. But it will be way way more expensive than the 1982-2000 war because Hezbollah can just shoot a rocket every few days and make them shoot Iron Dome at it. I don't see anyone in Israel understanding that when they killed Nasrallah they made a commitment to fight there for years.
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and israel can blow up the neighbourhood from where it was launched
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Yeah,,,?
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I was talking about Arabs attacking them in general, through terrorism or otherwise.
Well, I don't have anything to add since I don't know that much about this conflict, just asked out of curiosity why you thought this will be different than what came before when it comes to fighting hamas/hezbollah.
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The danger isn't that Hezbollah is stronger or smarter or whatever, it's if they keep a low-intensity war going on. Look at how much goddarn money the US spent in Vietnam. There were long periods where nothing happened but everyone had to be careful because they could attack at any minute. That costs money.
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vietnam was half a globe away. lebanon is practically in their backyard.
vietdogs wouldve evolved into a forever tunnel people had drones been invented at that time
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I can't predict the future but at the very least, unlike in Gaza, Lebanon has a government that on some level does want to run the country independently. If Hezbollah is crippled enough it might give the government the room they need to finally regain some control of the situation and actually be able prevent Hezb growth.
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People forget that US aid to Israel is almost exclusively us selling weapons and technology to them, not economic assistance. Even if the US shut down aid and sanctioned Israel they would probably immediately start buying shit from China (and selling vital intelligence services with them, which is why it would be bad for the US to abandon Israel.
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it's mostly Lockmart giftcards.
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