US president reiterates support for Israel in call with Netanyahu amid reports that he is also opposed to counterattack.

US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles.

Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not been hit.

The US president said he reiterated the “ironclad” support for Israel’s security in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has had strained relations over Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said.

“And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people,” he said.

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  • Cypher@lemmy.world
    199·
    8 months ago

    This is why I was cheering when North Korea got nukes.

    North Korea is a horrific shit show but war against North Korea would almost certainly end in direct conflict with China.

    Now that NK has nukes there is zero risk of the West initiating a conflict. The risk is too high.

    Any change in NK will need to happen internally or by pressure from their allies. Which sucks for the NK people but is probably still less horrific than war.

    • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      237·
      8 months ago

      The current problems in the DPRK stem from the brutal sanctions. Prior to the USSR’s overthrow when the sanctions had far less effect, the North was developing and urbanizing faster than the South, even with 20% of its population killed, and all its infrastructure destroyed, by the US.

      Agree with you on the nukes of course. The DPRK would’ve ended up like Libya is right now and the US might have been at war against China if they didn’t develop their nuclear deterrence.

      • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        112·
        8 months ago

        The highest managerial authority under the Taean system is the party committee. Each committee consists of approximately twenty-five to thirty-five members elected from the ranks of managers, workers, engineers, and the leadership of “working people’s organizations” at the factory.

        Workplace democracy in action.

      • livus@kbin.social
        915·
        8 months ago

        Well this has got to be one of the least persuasive things I’ve ever read:

        A measure of the success of the Taean Work System is its longevity and its continued endorsement by the leadership. In his 1991 New Year’s address marking the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the system, Kim Il Sung said that the "Taean work system is the best system

      • Pascal@lemdro.idEnglish
        62·
        8 months ago

        Notice how you don’t address anything they said because it’s true.

        The US has been the only country genocidal enough to use a nuclear bomb on actual human beings, and they did it twice at that. Having a nuclear deterrence to keep such a war-mongering country out is important. And it’s been working as we can see.