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Escalatory tensions and increasing contact with hezbollah across its northern border in lebanon. so dealing with two fronts already and then suddenly this third front, this direct confrontation let s just say it as it is from iran to israel, israel having to respond back, that s surely playing into calculations, too. israel has finite resources, and both sides have previously said, haven t they, they aren t seeking direct confrontation. a confrontation that would not just involve iran and israel but of course allies in the region, too. you ve got british forces in cypress that were involved in that effort to successfully defend israel s territory from the attacks over the weekend. they would then potentially be sucked into any wider confrontation. so it really has been a balancing act of responding but responding in a way hopefully ....
Crimes and i think it is better if we here at the pentagon let them do their investigation and work. it is certainly not the behavior of a responsible nuclear power. just the other day, brie, we in the department of defense, secretary austin, delayed an icbm test launch, just a test launch, one scheduled for a couple of years, because of the tensions right now. the escalatory tensions caused by mr. putin talking about putting nuclear forces on heightened alert. that s what a responsible nuclear power does. responsible nuclear power does not attack a nuclear power plant. if a russian attack on a nuclear power plant, because there are others, spreads radiation to a nato country, will that be considered an article 5 violation? yeah, look, again, that s a question for the alliance to make specifically i would remind that article 5 makes it clear that it is an armed attack on a nato ally, triggers article 5, an armed attack. but how that s interpreted, that ....