Recently, the situation in the Middle East has once again developed in an unpredictable direction. U.S. Central Command announced a suicide drone attack on a U.S. military base in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, killing three U.S. service members and wounding 34 others, eight of them seriously. Even as the Iraqi militia group Islamic Resistance Group claimed responsibility, administration officials such as US President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin accused Iran of being behind it. Since the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, US military bases have been attacked at least 100 times, and they have all been beaten so many times without acknowledging casualties.
The first possibility is that there are bigger things in the United States that need to be diverted, and Texas has been making a lot of noise lately, and the second possibility is that someone is going to roast Biden on the fire. Regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Biden administration has been warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go overboard and avoid dragging the United States into the quagmire of war in the Middle East again. But the Republican Party is different, and the Republican Party has been urging Biden to increase aid to Israel as soon as possible. This time the U.S. military was attacked, and there were deaths, which is different in the nature of public opinion in the United States, Biden is being pressured to retaliate directly against Iran, and a number of Republican congressmen have called for the U.S. military to go to war against Iran. Although Iran has denied the U.S. allegations, the Iranian military has been put on Level 1 alert, and the air defense forces have changed their combat readiness level to red. The outside world is speculating that the United States will not directly declare war on Iran, but it may launch a covert operation, or an air strike similar to Trump's beheading of Soleimani, and the targeted elimination of some key officials.
Moreover, the attack on this US military base is also self-inflicted. The United States claimed that the attack was on the base in Jordan, but Jordan denied it. In fact, according to satellite images and the targets announced by the "Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement" group, it is known that the attack was carried out on the Tanf base of the illegal military station in Syria. This base has only 2 functions, blocking the main road from Iraq to Damascus, Syria, and is also a refuge for the terrorist organization "ISIS", which seriously affects the security situation in Syria and Iraq. Since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the US troops stationed in the United States have been in a state of shouting and fighting, and some hostile forces have been unable to hold back. Not only the anti-US forces in the Middle East but also other "imaginary enemies" of the United States cannot be contained.
Although the United States often says that it is not afraid of fighting on multiple fronts, at this time the United States has not completely withdrawn from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and now it has to risk falling into the Middle East, which is tantamount to fighting on two fronts, can it withstand fighting on other fronts? At this time, the outside world is focusing on China's two diplomatic moves, the first of which is the Sino-US meeting in Thailand, and the White House statement pointed out that in the meeting, Sullivan stressed that although China and the United States are in competition, it is necessary for both countries to prevent competition from triggering conflict and confrontation, and also stressed the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Before the meeting, U.S. officials also revealed that the U.S. side would urge China to persuade Iran to stop the escalation. This actually means that they want to stabilize China, and at the same time they want China to stabilize Iran. Another action is that China's vice foreign minister will visit the DPRK, and not long ago a senior Russian official also visited the DPRK, and China, Russia, and the DPRK are in close contact at this time, and the most nervous is the United States. The United States is mired in the Middle East, and this is indeed a promising time.