Locator: 48662MIDEAST.
I've blogged about this several times since the 12-day war.
By the way, I'm getting tired of calling this the 12-day war, except that it will be the best way to remember one of the most important events ever in the history of the never-ending Mideast story. I guess most stories involving decisive Israeli military successes are framed in days -- Six-Day War, Twelve-Day War.
Compare with the American war preceding the big one: the Seven-Years War.
Or the European 100-Years War.
But for the US, this "event" --- one can hardly call it a war, was measured "in minutes and hours," and in deaths less than one.
- 36-hours, non-stop, flight
- three (or maybe it was six, more or less): B-2s
- 35 minutes over Iran
- American casualties: 0
- Iranian casualties blamed on the US: also, zero
- friendly fire casualties: also, zero
- cost to the DOD: $0 -- the DOD will be reimbursed by the US State Department
But, back to the blog -- Israel and Trump are re-drawing Mideast maps and alliances. Examples follow.
Saudi Arabia:
not yet being reported by The NYT -- at least when I first started looking for this story last night:
Trump, while up all night pushing this OBBB through the US House, met secretly with the Saudi Arabian minister of defense; they saw eye-to-eye on absolutely everything; this link to Axios. Unfortunately after reading it last night, it's now behind a paywall. We'll find plenty of links later on. The link to Fox News is still the best, but Google's blogger app won't allow me to post it.
