The death and destruction caused in Gaza is almost beyond comprehension. Over
25,000 people have died at the hands of the Israeli air and ground assault, and
virtually the entire population of the densely populated strip has been forced
to flee their homes.
Few governments have been willing to put up meaningful resistance to Israeli
aggression. One exception is Yemen, whose de-facto government Ansar Allah (often
referred to as the Houthis) has engaged in a blockade of the Red Sea in an
attempt to halt the onslaught.
In response, the U.S. is leading a Western alliance of nations to break the
blockade and support the genocide. Yet joining the "MintCast" today is a guest
who claims that, for all the destruction, Israel's war in Gaza is failing. Greg
Stoker is a former U.S. Army Special Operations member who left the military and
became a committed anti-imperialist. Greg produces content analyzing Western
imperialism and the current wars in the Middle East, and his videos explaining
the situation regularly go viral, attracting an audience of millions of people.
Today, he sat down with "MintCast" host Mnar Adley to discuss Israel, Yemen and
the U.S. role in the chaos. He explained how the IDF is losing the ground war
based upon a number of factors, errors and assumptions it made, including an
overreliance on air superiority and bombing, the assumption that collective
punishment would be an effective deterrent, a shocking lack of training for
Israeli ground forces, perilously little infantry cover for Israeli armor making
their tanks sitting ducks, and an inability to set realistic goals and targets
in the war.
While the Israelis might have all the technology, money and Western backing,
they are fighting a close-quarters ground war with a guerilla foe - a sort of
war they are woefully unsuited for. With no aircraft or even vehicles of any
note, Hamas' focus is hand-to-hand fighting and hit-and-run skirmishes. Once
they hit the Israelis, they can immediately disappear into a myriad of tunnels
or bombed-out ruins, making them extremely difficult to pin down. The IDF has
been unable to deal Hamas a serious blow despite confidently predicting that it
would destroy the group altogether by the end of the fighting.
-- Cont'd (with vid) at https://www.mintpressnews.com/former-us-special-ops-greg-stoker-us-israeli-imperialism/286737/
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