Tensions are high over the possibility Iran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago.

US officials had told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that a major attack on Israel could happen imminently.

Israel has said it is ready “defensively and offensively”.

“I can’t speak to the size, scale, scope of what that attack might look like,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. But he added that the Iranian threat was “viable,” saying Washington was “watching this very, very closely”.

He said: “We are in constant communication with our Israeli counterparts about making sure that they can defend themselves against those kinds of attacks”.

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    7 months ago

    Good. A period of prosperity usually follows a global conflict (Roaring twenties, 1950s American Dream, etc…)

    We’ve been heading down this road for a few years already, all over the world nothing but hatred and bigotry and selfishness seemingly on the rise. Mini conflicts all over the place, and the only super power literally on the verge of electing a fucking dictator. If the eventual result is a global conflict (it is), then let’s just get it the fuck over with so the political systems that remain afterwards can recover like they did post-ww2.

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      7 months ago

      If you want to make seeping, bold, and wrong predictions about the future based on incomplete knowledge of the past, you should try economics.

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        7 months ago

        I was quite literally an Archaeology major with a minor in History. Care to try again?