You wouldn't carry explosives inside an An-124 or a Il-76. Those would typically be transported by boat.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)
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Hi,
thanks for your reply, but in case of Iran isn’t it not possible to transport via sea
as US navy can stop and search Iranian or any other cargo coming out of Iran
port towards Russia as we have seen this in the case of shipping arms by Iran to
Syria
thank you
Caspian Sea
US doesn't possess the ability to stop and check every single ship outgoing/incoming from and to Iran. Just one of the ports at Bandar Abbas, for example, handles 6,000,000 TEU of cargo annually. How will you check just that alone?
Weapons can be moved through other nations as well. How else would the totally-blockaded Palestinian resistance groups get Chinese weapons?
Yeah Israel lost some money, big deal. They used to be poor, they can rebuild. Many may flee from fear, but they will come back. If much bigger wars of the past did not deter them, I see no reason Jewish people will stop going now.
End of the day Israel does not need to be a world power, it just need to be the biggest in town. If everyone else is in shambles, then no one is. Chances are Israel will take less damage than neighbours and recover faster.
That is not to say Israel is unbeatable. I think Israel if playing its card right, can come out on top, in theory. So far they have not make a mistake so big that threaten its existence yet. Doesn't mean they won't in the future, but they are safe in current trajectory.
Besides deterrence, has U.S. presented Iran with any ”carrots” to help de-escalate the situation?
Global support is an irrelevant variable. The entire thinking process is controlled, from social media to mainstream media, now there is crackdown in Academia, all loose ends are being tightened. Only TikTok is the loose variable and it is on the kill-list.
The only real way is to be better organised, generate more income and create and or influence the existing variables and levels of information and power, against which there will also be resistance, so more savvy, novel approaches, and advancing in those societies ahead of others to be able to influence such variables over a generation will matter.
So basically the lobby is just far better organised, using science and money to control, while opposition has a huge chunk of idiots and people day dreaming and coping praying for short cuts. It also has smart people but they get sabotaged by idiots. Even Palestinians aren't seeming full destruction of Israel. It's just Israeli propaganda to play victim. Catering to it undermines the narrative of the actual victims: Palestinians.
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Israel can go the way of Rhodesia. There is no two state solution possible with a society of sociopaths. Either it gets wiped out or they'd rather go back to Europe and the US before contemplating having to accept an actual palestinian state, let alone give the stolen land back.
All that "control" will only result in a bubble, nothing else. A bubble just as dependant on the political and economical stability of the west as Israel itself is.
Should shit hit the fan in these countries, for any number of factors, there is no bubble that going to sabe them. Specially when Israel's actions as a country and as a society hasnt endeared them to the rest of the world, to say the least.
You are overstimating the wests current situation
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We know Israel has nukes.
Can you explain what exactly it is that we see here? A mossad agent taped that paper on the ATM?
Well, I suppose that can be considered the oldest cyberattack in the world, obscuring the enemy's mk1 eyeball.
They got rid of a dove whose house is right next to Al udeid airbase and was trying to end the war, in favor of the guy who planned the October offensive. Israel is not careful nor necessarily capable of planning operations without collateral damage. What I think is that an opportunity for "collaboration" was presented by Hamas or Iran itself, who would see Haniyeh replaced with Sinwar for their own reasons. And Israel took it, having seethed since the Iranian strikes without anything to show for it.
It is in Iran's interest to digest as much foreign aid as possible into its forces, I think that is the biggest factor speaking towards a wider escalation in the middle east being inevitable. Last time Iran striked Israel, Iran was relatively alone or didn't recieve direct aid.