Jesus Christ the opening to that video had me guessing for a moment until I calmed down and realized it's obviously a hypothetical. Given that it's reported that Iranian officials consider their attack "concluded", it would be great if all the players stepped away from escalation into open war. The video I linked talks about the pressure on both Iran and Israel to back down, and here's hoping they do. The world really really doesn't need yet another open war in the Middle East, USA-involved or otherwise.

I have no sympathy for any US soldiers who die defending genocidal states.

I think it would be an incredibly unpopular decision by Biden, and the American people would not support a war with Iran. I also think that it would be a tactical mistake, given how many US assets are within Iranian striking distance right now. The US military is having recruiting issues currently, and a war will not help that.

However, I wouldn't be surprised to see ISIS attacks in Iran start to happen more frequently.

US will play defense unless Iran does something really stupid and launches a large ballistic missile attack of some kind, or directly attacks US military. Even then, proportional response policy would probably mean strikes against missile facilities only.

No amount of drones sent against Israel will result in the US opening an actual war with Iran.

I feel like that wouldn't go down well if the US government tried that.

Maybe I don't understand the average American, but it's certainly seemed like people realized the last wars in the Middle East were a waste of time and life.

And somehow the elected leader of our country is going against the will of the population by supporting israel and dragging us into another massive war.

Related to bargaining, I read the wiki article on Iran’s nuclear program the other day and was surprised at how hard they are trying to do their nuclear program “by the book” while the US keeps blocking everyone else from agreeing that they’re entitled as long as they follow the guidelines (paris agreement etc).

Honestly at this point anybody who needs Trump not to win should be organising their life as if he already has and will come into office next January.

The US has been tied to Israel since its founding.

No matter who (or what party) was in the white house, the US would be propping up Isreal after the Hamas attack.

Just like it has done for decades.

What do you mean? He knows young democrats will just fall in line no matter what he does because he's not trump.

Israel is the US's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. It's strategically priceless for US world domination.

Israel is basically where all of the NSA spyware gets developed.

Money and an influencial foothold in the Middle East. It's a secret because power and money are withheld from you and all of us.