The Secretary of Defense says that Washington is committed to maintaining Israel’s military superiority in the region, which, according to the commander of Centcom, their own superiority in the region has been severely challenged by Iran.
Yesterday, the US Secretary of Defense said in a meeting with the Israeli Minister of War that his country is committed to maintaining Israel’s military superiority.
According to the Washington Post, Lloyd Austin told Benny Gantz during the meeting that Washington would be committed to military superiority and the assurance of Israel’s defense power over what he called the Iranian threat.
The remarks come just days after a 12-day battle between the Israeli army and Palestinian resistance groups; for the first time, Hamas and Islamic Jihad used rockets with greater range, accuracy and destructive power than in the past, which also posed a serious challenge to the Iron Dome defense system.
The US commitment to maintaining Israel’s military supremacy seems to be in doubt, but US officials say that just two months ago, Centcom commander Frank Mackenzie admitted that US drones had lost US air superiority in the West Asian region.
Former United States President Donald Trump has acknowledged wasting $ 7 trillion in the region. “We spent $ 7,000 billion in the Middle East, we actually wasted it, most importantly, and many lost their lives. Nearly two months ago, our spending in the Middle East reached $ 7,000 billion,” Trump said.
On the other hand, the United States has accelerated the withdrawal of its forces from the region, and after about 20 years of invading and occupying Afghanistan, it is now forced to leave Afghanistan, while large parts of Afghanistan are still practically It is under the control of the Taliban.
A few days ago, after the attack on the CIA base in Erbil, Iraq, a US official said that “the growing threat of drones is the biggest operational concern of the US military in Iraq.”
Perhaps the last time that American support led to the Zionist victory in the region can be attributed to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. During this battle, US weapons aid to the Zionist regime prevented Syria and Egypt from achieving all their goals, and as a result, the Zionists managed to occupy parts of Syrian territory in the Golan Heights and Sinai Desert.
The regime’s military power has shrunk significantly since 2006 after the defeat of the Israeli army in the 33-day war. It was during this war that the Zionist regime suffered another defeat after retreating from southern Lebanon in 2000, and then failed to achieve its goals in the three wars with Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.
In the recent battle, the Zionist army failed to prevent rocket fire by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, despite widespread airstrikes, and even refrained from ground clashes with resistance groups.
Simultaneously with these events, and especially in recent years, the Resistance Front is increasing its military power and superiority in the region by equipping itself with various weapons, especially UAVs, and a review of the situation on the ground shows that they have been remarkably successful in this process.
Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United States in the region, has not been able to succeed on the Yemeni front despite receiving widespread US support, and is trying to end the war as soon as possible.
Ansarullah’s widespread and accurate drone strikes against critical Saudi centers such as the Aramco oil facility, as well as Al-Saud military bases and the inability of their defense systems to counter Yemeni drones, is one of Saudi Arabia’s serious problems. On the ground, Saudi Arabia has not been able to do anything against the Yemeni forces, despite extensive arms purchases.
In the meantime, the Islamic Republic of Iran has played a significant role in increasing the strength of the Resistance Front and challenging the military superiority of the United States and its allies in the region; This is an issue that US officials acknowledge and claim as a result of Iran’s support that the resistance groups have increased their power, and this has led to more Iranian influence in the region.
Messages of thanks to the commanders of Islamic Jihad and Hamas during the Battle of the Sword of Quds can be considered as an example of Iran’s support for the resistance groups.