What a shitstorm. This mess is a great example of why you'll be able to count down the life expectancy of Israel in weeks once the US Navy can no longer credibly project power to the Middle East.

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🇮🇱🇯🇴🇸🇾 Despite the general focus on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Syria has been and remains one of the main hot spots in the region. That night, Israeli troops located in the occupied Golan Heights launched an artillery attack on Damascus province.

According to the press service of the Israel Defense Forces, the attack was carried out in response to the launch of four munitions from Syria, which fell near Israeli positions. There are no reliable data on losses and results of strikes.

🔻But more interesting is what happened on the border of Syria and Jordan. On the night of 19 December, five Jordanian Air Force F-16 fighters from Al-Salti Air Base crossed into Syrian airspace and struck several targets in As-Suwayda , Bakka and Dibina .

As it turned out, in the last three days, smugglers, taking advantage of the instability in the region, were intensively making their way south through the border areas with Syria. It even got to the point of armed clashes with Jordanian border guards, who suffered losses because of this.

For this reason, aviation was called in, which attacked the warehouses of drug dealers and their drug laboratories, and border guard detachments, in turn, detained nine people with contraband and weapons.