While the proxy war in Ukraine continues to run unabated it's often forgotten that the USA is fighting a proxy war of its own, in Iran as the proxy of Israel.
Usually it's the USA waging proxy war at a distance through it's allies, like Ukraine, against countries like Russia.
But in Iran the USA gets to fight its own proxy war as Caitlin Johnstone makes clear in a wide-ranging post:
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said during a conference on Tuesday that Israel “has no interest” in participating in the ongoing military exchanges between the US and Iran, asserting that “the current situation is the best one for us.”
While Smotrich is certainly correct that it is to Israel’s benefit to stand aside and let the Americans do all the fighting and dying in this conflict, this is a noteworthy admission about a war that the US State Department says the White House ordered “at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally.”
Israel has not quite said that USA can fight Iran to the last American but that's the subtext.
Lindsey Graham must be turning in his grave.