The US would freak out and escalate the war. But they are going to do that anyway sooner or later, this is a forever war, Israel needs it for their domestic agenda, and the US party, the one fixing elections to stay in power, is all in.
But regardless if they did sink it the administration would try and treat it like Pearl Harbor and use it to escalate tensions more than they have support to do already.
Public opinion is the only thing holding them back now, and they aren’t entirely certain how much they need public opinion still given the elections aren’t reliably fixed yet, at least not back to back fixed. We can still stop them here, but the window to do so is closing.
The US would freak out and escalate the war. But they are going to do that anyway sooner or later, this is a forever war, Israel needs it for their domestic agenda, and the US party, the one fixing elections to stay in power, is all in.
But regardless if they did sink it the administration would try and treat it like Pearl Harbor and use it to escalate tensions more than they have support to do already.
Public opinion is the only thing holding them back now, and they aren’t entirely certain how much they need public opinion still given the elections aren’t reliably fixed yet, at least not back to back fixed. We can still stop them here, but the window to do so is closing.