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Israel has taken advantage of the chaos in Syria to destroy much of that country’s military capability — 12 Comments

1. ChatGPT – how much military equipment did biden leave in the afghanistan withdrawal:

   During the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, approximately $7 billion worth of military equipment was left behind. This included:

   • Over 40,000 military vehicles, such as Humvees.
   • Around 300,000 weapons, including rifles and machine guns.
   • Specialized equipment, including night vision, surveillance systems, and biometric devices.
   • Aircraft valued at $923 million, though many were demilitarized to render them inoperable.
   • Ammunition, air-to-ground munitions, and communication equipment.

   The equipment was initially provided to Afghan forces during the U.S. mission but fell into Taliban hands following the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. Efforts to retrieve or destroy the remaining equipment have been deemed unfeasible by the Department of Defense, given the current lack of U.S. presence and relations with Afghanistan under Taliban rule

   Biden should’ve hired Israel to ‘destroy the remaining equipment’…

2. Except that “Biden” wanted the Taliban to have it.
   Gift giving.
   You know, “Peace on Earth, goodwill, etc.”…well, a few weeks late.

   Remember, the operation was a great success!
   And besides, it was all Trump’s fault, anyway….

3. My Israeli cousin was visiting yesterday, and I showed him an X post detailing some of this, which brought raised eyebrows and a big smile.

4. Finally, Israel under Netanyahu is acting proactively. Which necessitated a non-verbal but implicit message to ‘Go Pound Sand’ to the Biden administration.

5. Alas it took a while for Netanyahu to deliver that “Go Pound Sand” message. (And it was a message that “Biden” sent at various additional stages along the way. It will continue being sent until January 20th enclosed in tasteful, gift-wrapped strong-arming.)
   – – – – – – –
   “Biden”’s gift-giving, continued:

   We saw what “he” gave the Taliban.
   And “his” Uber-generosity to the mullahs and their buddies (not to mention “his” extremely generous gift to the Biden crime syndicate)!

   Here’s “his” gift—one of many to come, actually—for Trump:
   “Government Spending Shock: US Budget Deficit Soars In Worst Start To Year On Record”—
   https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/government-spending-shock-us-budget-deficit-worst-start-year-record

6. Given that one of the leaders of the Rebels now in charge in Syria said “now let’s go for Lebanon and the Jews” it makes perfect sense that Israel (and any other country under such a threat) should destroy the very weapons that would be used to “wipe them off the map.”

   Bravo, I say, Bravo!

7. Israel punches above its weight. And thank goodness it does. Destroying those weapons will blunt the rebel forces’ abilities to create more havoc and suffering in Syria.

   For those who are willing to learn, there are lessons being taught by the IDF. Is the Pentagon paying attention? My guess is, not yet. Buty come 1/20/25 that will change.
   Onward.

8. @ Neo > “One thing we’ve learned since the terrible events of October 7 and Israel’s unpreparedness for that day is that Israel has some remarkable capabilities that it’s been demonstrating ever since.”

   It’s been clear since about Oct 8, 2023, that the failures in Israel’s defenses were politically-driven, not a lack of military ability.

   This is, after all, the country that exfiltrated an entire warehouse of Iran’s nuclear secrets, assassinates opposing leaders at will, puts two or more years into a covert op to detonate enemy communication devices, and can drop munitions on a single apartment of a building without unduly damaging the remainder.

   All they need is commanders willing to give the go-ahead.

9. @ Geoffrey > “Which necessitated a non-verbal but implicit message to ‘Go Pound Sand’ –”
   The message was sent to other administrations in the past:
   https://www.jns.org/if-israel-had-listened-to-the-state-department-on-syria/

   As chaos envelops Syria—with one gang of terrorists overthrowing the other gang of terrorists who ran the government—the question needs to be asked: Can you imagine the danger Israel would now be facing if it had surrendered to U.S. demands in the 1990s to give up the Golan Heights?

   This isn’t some theoretical what-if scenario. During the first Clinton administration, a team of State Department negotiators led by Dennis Ross spent several years trying to pressure Israel to give over the Golan to Syrian dictator Hafez Assad (father of the recently deposed dictator Bashar Assad, his second-oldest son).
   …
   Assad was the man who twice tried to annihilate the Jewish state—first as Syria’s defense minister in the 1967 Six-Day War and then as Syria’s president in 1973’s Yom Kippur War. The man who daily ranted against Israel and Jews. The man whose schools raised entire generations of young Syrians to become antisemitic fanatics. The man who, at the very moment he was negotiating with Ross, was feverishly developing chemical weapons with which to slaughter millions of Israeli Jews. Assad literally aspired to finish Hitler’s job by asphyxiating millions of Jews with poison gas.

   The only thing that stood between Israel and Hafez Assad’s chemical weapons was the Golan Heights. The same is true for Assad’s equally monstrous son, the deposed dictator Bashar Assad. If Israel had been foolish enough to follow along with Dennis Ross and his State Department colleagues, the Assads would have had the Golan—and their guns and poison gas would have been trained on the families who live in Israel’s Galilee, Jewish and Arab alike.

   Today, Dennis Ross is again dishing out “expertise,” hoping that nobody remembers the awful advice he gave Israel about surrendering the Golan Heights. But Israelis, who are watching the unfolding chaos on their northeastern border, have not forgotten. They know just what the consequences would have been.

10. AF, I love the photo from the article you linked showing Ross with blue hair lol

11. AesopFan:
    It’s been clear since about Oct 8, 2023, that the failures in Israel’s defenses were politically-driven, not a lack of military ability.
    —————————————
    Not entirely true. We continue to be hamstrung by decades of panglossian generals who pushed the myopic, Tel-Avivi doctrine of a “small, smart” army.

    This is what made the Obama-Biden axis’ betrayal of previous supply agreements so dire.

    Fighting spirit and volunteerism have largely overcome the dithering of the generals. The crisis of confidence and the existential nature of the threat are already leading to political and cultural realignments – and are likely to finally bring the “ultra” orthodox draft dodgers into the army.

    Which leads us to J.J:
    Israel punches above its weight. And thank goodness it does.
    ——————————-
    Well many of us believe that “Goodness” has put a finger on the scales…

    When I talk to my son and to other reservists, and to medical people I know – even the most hardened and irreligious say unabashedly that they have witnessed many thinly veiled miracles.

    We are already seeing the beginnings of another religious revival – and related conservative political shift – similar to the one that came after the Yom Kippur War, which was the last time heedless Leftie know-it-alls led us into an existential war.

12. “When I talk to my son and to other reservists, and to medical people I know – even the most hardened and irreligious say unabashedly that they have witnessed many thinly veiled miracles.” – Ben David

    Thanks for sharing that. We see miracles, and though we can’t prove they are providential, faith whispers in our ear. There are forces at work we can neither see nor completely understand. And that’s where faith in God comes calling.

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