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So shooting down drones and missiles from one regional power is de-escalatory, while shooting down drones and missiles from a different regional power is massiv

• rainworld 3y ago
  Yes, very different situations. If for no other reason than that in one situation every involved party had consented. Including Iran, tacitly. The reason it was “de-escalatory”: It helped Iran prove what it sought to prove: no AD in the world will stop their missiles from getting through. For Israel it provided the face-saving “99.9%”. Also, the Ukraine situation has no Jordan, Iraq, accessible ocean (ask the Turks about that) to operate from.