The US government is going to try their hardest to pass this current crisis onto the next administration, if only because they are hiding Joe Biden as much as possible.
However, with the speed at which things are moving in the Middle East, we are quite a ways away from January 20th.
The White House promised Tuesday that Iran would face “severe consequences” for its ballistic missile attacks against Israel Tuesday — but refused to detail what those might be.
The US helped Israel successfully counter the roughly 180 missiles Tehran lobbed at the Jewish state, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters, as the Pentagon noted that the American destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley launched about a dozen interceptors at Iranian projectiles.
“This attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective,” Sullivan emphasized.
“We are proud of the actions that we’ve taken alongside Israel to protect and defend Israel,” he went on. “We have made clear that there will be consequences — severe consequences — for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case.”
Oh, you’re going to work with the Jews?
That sounds like a brilliant and innovative strategy.
But how many times can you say the word “significant” in one sentence?
Sullivan added that Tuesday’s attack was a “significant escalation by Iran, a significant event, and it is equally significant that we were able to step up with Israel.”
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris monitored the attack from the Situation Room, the latter said in brief remarks Tuesday afternoon.
“Iran is a destabilizing, dangerous force in the Middle East, and today’s attack on Israel only further demonstrates that fact,” Harris said. “I fully support President Biden’s order for the US military to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting Israel, just as we did in April.”
Biden, meanwhile, said the “defeated” strike’s relative lack of impact was a “testament to Israeli military capability … [and] intensive planning [between] the United States and Israel to anticipate and defend against a brazen attack.”
“Make no mistake, the United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel,” he said.
Yeah, we, um. We’re not going to make that mistake. Don’t worry.
We understand the thing.