Comment by llamaimperative
Comment by llamaimperative 2 days ago
Eh, deniability and international response is another reason not to drop bombs from the air.
Comment by llamaimperative 2 days ago
Eh, deniability and international response is another reason not to drop bombs from the air.
Deniability doesn't mean "no one thinks they know you did it." There need only be seeds of doubt (even if it's only motivated doubting) to prevent consensus from forming.
Even the tiniest seeds of doubt can be sufficient to prevent certain parties from being obligated to go to war.
I'm not sure deniability is something Israel is prioritizing here. They know that the world will immediately know that nobody but Israel would/could have done this.
But avoiding civilian harm and managing the international response are definitely interrelated goals here, to say the least.