Großbritannien „nicht im Krieg“, obwohl RAF Jets in den Nahen Osten geschickt hat, sagt Reeves
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iran-israel-latest-uk-raf-jets-reeves-b2770338.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
Großbritannien „nicht im Krieg“, obwohl RAF Jets in den Nahen Osten geschickt hat, sagt Reeves
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iran-israel-latest-uk-raf-jets-reeves-b2770338.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
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So what she said was:
>We have, in the past, supported Israel when there have been missiles coming in. I’m not going to comment on what might happen in the future, but so far, we haven’t been involved, and we’re sending in assets to both protect ourselves and also potentially to support our allies.
So this is a standard response of „we haven’t done anything, but prepared in the case we need to“ which is probably the reasonable thing to do right now.
I compare Iran to a country being run by the Manson Family, a dwindling number of violent 60s counter culture religious cultists ghouls holding a country hostage: there’s no telling what they might do if they are indeed losing grip. It’s wise to be prepared.
That and they’re launching missiles over a number of allied nations and it’s a good idea to be prepared to shoot some down if necessary.
They shoot down Iranian missiles but not Israeli ones. Israel started the engagement so if UK shoots Iranian missiles down then we’ve joined the war on Israel’s side, if not already.
Maybe not, but we are definitely in a new cold war era now and it seems perfectly possible things will tip into full-scale war at some point.
We’re defending a bully in the middle east that needs to be humbled
A novel idea, let’s stay out of it. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. Haven’t we learned yet?
Do we really want another huge surge of migration from the middle east into Europe and the UK?
The UK was never officially at war with Iraq, Afghanistan or Argentina in those wars either so I wouldn’t expect any other response even if the RAF were carrying out airstrikes themselves in Iran.
Good job we’re not at war, with the amount of undocumented young men piling into the country each year. That would certainly be a problem if there were countries and/or regimes out there that didn’t wish us well.
Do we assume that Israel carried out these attacks in order to change the international narrative on Gaza, in order to take Gaza out of the news cycle ?
We had several of Israel’s allies calling into question their actions, and there appears to be overwhelming evidence of war crimes..
So, do we want to get into bed with a war criminal?
We don’t have to like the authoritarian Iranian government, but it does feel a little tone deaf to try and tell a country that just experienced precision targeted assassinations by Israel, to relax and show restraint, or to not retaliate.
I’m also sick of the ‘special relationship’ crap with the USA, I get there’s a complex interweaving of intelligence etc, but we’re also witnessing the USA go down a dark route.
Conservatives would not have been in any better position but I feel when Starmer says he will do what’s right for the UK, it’s not honest. The USA has a great deal of influence over us, and that seems to win out.
Personally, I don’t think we should be getting involved/taking sides
First things first the forces might be needed if the UK needs to do a mass evacuation of Brits who are currently in Israel so lets make sure our troops are there if needed.
Secondly and here is the really difficult one, helping Israel defend itself might be the least worst option. Despite first hearing about it on Reddit I’ve seen little to no mention of Israel’s so-called Samson Policy, where if it looks like the country will collapse they’ll drop nukes on as much of the middle east as they possibly can. Personally I have little doubt that if push came to shove Israel would do this – I suspect western governments know this as well.