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40 reported killed in US attacks in Iraq and Syria. Unclear if they were all combatants. 🤷♂️
Strikes featured use of B-1 long range bombers deployed from mainland USA. A real ‘reach out and touch (you)’ message to everyone who missed them on their radar.
Seems Biden and team have decided that striking proxies is enough this time. Time will tell if Iran got the message, but their reactions definitely conveyed a sense of wariness that their trainees had gotten them into a fight they didn’t want. All of this seems like a positive thing as even the NYT had a piece calling for direct strikes on Iranian assets inside Iran, a la the 1980s when the US sank 6 Iranian warships; such an action now probably would’ve pushed Iranian leaders into striking back directly, and who knows where it goes from there.