Partially in agreement with you. Yes, even America can't support Israel 'forever'. No one can. But it is still many years where a few dozen billions of $$ of military aid to Israel will really hurt America. We shouldn't forget: American economy gains by the war-industry! It is not a coincidence that America has been at war for decades. An another point: The rich GCC Arabs buying American weapons! When Trump went to Saudi Arabia, I think he sold $100 BBBBillion Dollars of weaponry to them in just one trip! Imagine how much they not only buy from America but also invest back in America? Finally, American can turn a few acres of trees to suitcases of cash and hand it over to whatever militias and regimes to do the American bidding; that's the power of USD being the global Reserve Currency and that is not going away anytime soon, this forum's wishful thinking notwithstanding!
I'm conflicted on whether there was a response set to be executed or was this Hezbollah responding to widespread strikes. When it was kicking off I was under the impression Hezbollah was responding to Israeli widespread strikes.
One online user said something like: Hezbollah was going to launch an attack at 5 AM local time but Israelis pre-emptively launched at 4:45 am. But who knows.
Any Western embassy in any Muslim country, even without any American diplomatic mission in that country, essentially has a mini-spying base. Lebanon has it all and even Iran has many Western embassies. So Israel has immense resources to help it. A diplomatic mission is essentially a sanctuary--like a foreign footprint in an alien land.
