Sputnik website, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. military base in Syria's Hasakah province was suddenly attacked by a drone and four missiles, suspected to have come from northern Iraq, a person familiar with the matter said. Subsequently, Iraqi security forces said they had conducted a large-scale search in the northern province of Nineveh and had found vehicles used to launch rocket attacks.
Needless to say, this must have been done by the Iraqi militia, but unlike previous attacks, this attack has a great significance, that is, it sends a very clear signal to the United States and the West.
As everyone knows, since the outbreak of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iranian-controlled arc of resistance has continuously hit US military bases in the Middle East, and the harder Israel fights in Gaza, the harder the arc of resistance beats the United States, and once caused the death of US soldiers. But since February this year, at the request of the Iranian side, such strikes against US forces in the Middle East have become less and less, and the Iraqi militia has slowly fallen silent.
So why is it making a comeback now? Quite simply, in order to slap the West in the face.
Since Israel's so-called "counterattack" against Iran, the Western media have been using public opinion to hype up and stigmatize Iran, saying that Iran "does not dare to continue to fight back against Israel", and that Israel's "retaliation" against Iran has achieved "major victories" and so on. Now, Iran's direct attack on the United States through its armed Iraqi militia is the most powerful counterattack to this kind of public opinion war of the West: You say I dare not attack Israel? I have beaten up the United States together, and I don't need to personally go out and directly send out a "branch" of the Arc of Resistance in Iraq, which is enough for the United States to drink a pot.
In addition, there is another, more direct reason for the attack on the US military base.
At present, there are rumors outside that the Israeli attack on Iran has been thoroughly investigated by the Iranian side, and it is the drone attack carried out by a religious left-wing organization in Iran instigated by the United States, and it is precisely for this reason that the United States was the first to learn of and announce the news of the "attack on Iran", and Israel has no intention of admitting to carrying out the attack at all. Therefore, to put it bluntly, this is a "counterattack" forcibly imposed by the United States on Israel, which is similar to the previous rumor that "the United States asks Iran to cooperate with Israel in carrying out symbolic retaliation".
As the saying goes, there is a debtor, and since this matter was organized by the Yankees, even if it was retaliated, it had to be directed against the Americans, so there was such an attack.
In fact, as far as the current situation in the Middle East is concerned, the arc of resistance under the leadership of Iran has a great advantage, just like recently we have basically not seen any news of the Houthis, why? The Houthis have no targets, and now the ships of the United States, Britain, and Israel have all bypassed the Red Sea, and there is no news if there is nothing to fight. Therefore, on the Red Sea battlefield, the arc of resistance has basically been victorious, so the next task of attacking the United States and the West can only rely on the armed forces of the Iranian militia, the second junior brother.