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As U.S.-allied Israel opens up another Western-backed war against Hamas in the Middle East, the White House has assured that no American boots will end up on the ground even in a peacekeeping role. Israel is Uncle Sam's guy in the Middle East, so who will come to the rescue if needed, particularly as the conflict risks regional enlargement?
For now, at least, the Pentagon has been able to settle for just parking warships in the Middle East and cheering on Israel from the sidelines while occasionally calling an offside when bombs take out innocent Palestinians. Meanwhile,
Canada's elite special forces team, the Joint Task Force 2, is already on the ground in Israel according to Canada's Global News.
And they're probably not the only covert Western operators present. That's how things are done these days. Washington at least tries to give the appearance of non-involvement in conflicts from Syria, where the Pentagon and CIA discreetly trained "Syrian rebel" proxies, to Ukraine where the people of that country have been serving as a battering ram for Washington's interests against Russia. If they're on the ground, it isn't on the front line, but rather in a "training" or "advising" capacity.
But now that the U.S. is running out of front-line proxy fighters everywhere, something's got to give. Either there have to be fewer wars or more proxies, with the former being easier to attain than the latter.
Now the West wants to wrap things up in Ukraine because they lack the proxy fighters to saber rattle on that front in the same way that Israelis as a result of the country's long-standing mandatory military service and reserves.
So who's going to pick up the slack when U.S. allies run out of cannon fodder?
The minority 48 percent of draft-age Millennial and Generation Z Americans who can barely bother to even voice public support for U.S. backing of Israel, according to a new Marist poll?
Even if they wanted to go fight the elites' foreign wars, 77 percent are unfit to serve because they're too out of shape, too stoned, or too mentally ill - with many of them bringing a whole combo plate of several disqualifying issues to the table, according to a Pentagon study from earlier this year.
Some Americans are even suffering war wounds in the trenches of their basement as they ride into battle every single day on their ergonomic recliners.
So unless the robot warriors are ready for deployment, and it wouldn't also involve the robot operators claiming PTSD like drone jockeys have, then maybe it's time to dial back on the foreign wars.