• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    I can think of two possibilities:

    1. They’re copying Nixon’s “Madman Theory”, where by being violent and unpredictable they can extract greater concessions from their opponents. This is your “De-Escalation through Escalation” they were talking about a while ago.
    2. Israel now views this as an existential conflict and is trying to disable their opponents while they still have enough munitions to do so.