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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
well, anyone who thinks Iran should be rewarded for its naked aggression by going back to the sweetheart 2015 nuclear deal is as naive as Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938.
Yes, the U.S. has to respond, but it has to be the right response.
Just blindly carrying out military strikes just plays into Iran's hands.
Iran attacking saudi Arabia is a major escalation.
Why would they do it? Iran seems to be goading the U.S. into a military response. It strikes me that the situation in Iran must be getting desparate and either the regime is losing control of certain factions or wants to provoke a war to shore up its internal support.
What the U.S. should be doing is following the Bush sr. model from 1990 and trying to build an international coalition with a common plan of action.
If the regime in Tehran is tottering, now is the time to ratchet up sanctions even more.
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They have been firing ballistic missiles into KSA for years now and sunk one of their amphibious transport ships with an anti ship missile. You really should be aware of the context of this long proxy war.
As such I do not see why you view this as an actual escalation apart from the possible effect of being (mis)informed by US media.
In terms of why this has happened - US torpedoed yet another key arms control deal over dubious allegations of non compliance, possibly to support their KSA allies in this proxy war.
And US feels good about it.
Below, coverage of the patriot site radar and apparent direction the attack came from.
KSA was probably preparing against the ballistic missile threat from Yemen.