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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Bring in some USMC LCACs drive it right on up the beach.

And fucking dare Israel to.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dare them to do what, the US supports them. The US isn't staring anyone down here, they're watching a genocide and selling the gas for the chambers.

Absolute fantasy that they're some saviours here, they enabled this and are getting enough push back to make the barest effort to appease critic in an election year.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.

One of the big differences between now and USS Liberty is by how much coverage these things get. It would be hard to keep it out of the media.

Besides which, LCACs have been used before in exactly this role. (They’re hovercraft designed to drop off tanks in a beach. IIRC, they were used in Africa?)

[–] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.

We had citizens in the war zone for a month until Egypt made a corridor. NPR was talking directly to them as they begged the US government to help them get out.

The US isn't going to stare down the IDF at all

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Well… no.

But we should. Or at least, something… I dunno.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not like the US would retaliate.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like when This happened and we did nothing

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The uss liberty incident didn’t have the real time eyes that the public has in Gaza.

They won’t put troops on the ground because they don’t trust IDF to not fuck that up, but if they did…

there is zero way that it’d be as contained as the Liberty was (we’re all gonna know about it roughly five minutes after it happened,) and no way that Biden won’t be forced to respond- aggressively- when everystarts blasting videos of IDF missiles hitting American marines/sailors/soldiers/airforce.