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Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 3 days ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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"Netanyahu is as close as he has ever been to his ultimate wish: making the U.S. fight Iran on Israel's behalf," wrote one journalist.

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[–] HootinNHollerin 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Adding critical detail: 100 troops to operate a THAAD missile defense system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Troops or contractors/mercenaries? I did not read the article (bc I doubt it would say) so I'm mainly agreeing with you that clickbait issues aside, we still are not "informed" about what this all means.

[–] MutilationWave 3 points 2 days ago

Everything I've seen says that these are official US armed forces troops.

[–] FlashMobOfOne -1 points 2 days ago

Or so we're being told.