Here We Go: US Deploying Troops to Israel

Welp.

Reuters:

The United States said on Sunday it will send U.S. troops to Israel along with an advanced U.S. anti-missile system, in a highly unusual deployment meant to bolster the country’s air defenses following missile attacks by Iran.

U.S. President Joe Biden said the move was meant “to defend Israel,” which is weighing an expected retaliation against Iran after Tehran fired more than 180 missiles at Israel on Oct 1.

The United States has been privately urging Israel to calibrate its response to avoid triggering a broader war in the Middle East, officials say, with Biden publicly voicing his opposition to an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites and his concerns about a strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure.

Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder described the deployment as part of “the broader adjustments the U.S. military has made in recent months” to support Israel and defend U.S. personnel from attacks by Iran and Iranian-backed groups.

But a U.S. military deployment to Israel is rare outside of drills, given Israel’s own military capabilities. U.S. troops in recent months have aided Israel’s defense from warships and fighter jets in the Middle East when it came under Iranian attack.

But they were based outside of Israel.

Israel goes on and on about “human shields,” but that is basically what US troops in the Middle East are.

Actually, they’re usually something like the reverse of that: they are “tripwires,” which means they get sent in to get killed so the US can whine about its soldiers being killed.

However, US troops in Israel implies they are going to actually be openly active in the ongoing wars. That was always going to happen eventually, though this is a bit early in the game.