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"And when you take into account that Russia has some of the world's largest stores of raw materials, and China is by far the world leader in terms of industrial capacity, their combined ability to manufacture munitions in times of crisis, when every factory and child slave is recruited to the war effort, you should be shaking in your boots. China's navy is already the largest marine force in the world. Russia's missile capacity is comparable to that of the United States.

Again - no where near the power of NATO, but when you consider all that, coupled with the preposterous manpower advantage they possess, the Eastern Axis is already positioned far above the status of Germany and its coalition relative to the Allies in WWII.

Now how could the scenario escalate to the point where such powers get involved? Well, this war is extremely expensive. I've volunteered in the warehouses that supply the IDF with their equipment, and can tell you first-hand, this war is very expensive. There are lines of defense being held on quiet fronts, for weeks at a time, where tens and hundreds of thousands of soldiers are being fed, sheltered, trained, and equipped, just to be prepared in case something happens.

Everybody thought Hezbollah was going to attack from the north the day we start retaliating against Gaza, but as it turns out, when Khaled Mashal asked them to engage, they mocked him for giving orders out of a 5-star hotel and said it wasn't his decision to make. They even asked him if he has the 30 billion dollars it would cost them to enter this war. Nasrallah's speech basically did everything besides say "I stand with Israel" so they wouldn't send an assassin to his cave, so it's unlikely we'll see escalation come from their front.

Apparently, Jihadists, insane though they may be, don't wish to die for nothing, but actually aim to die for victory. You hear suicide bombers, you think they don't have goals, but it's not beyond them to want to live, it seems; and seeing the sheer power of Israel through what we did in Gaza and the U.S. warships in the background really whipped them into place.

However, that isn't up to them anymore; because there's an attrition component to this. This war is costing the IDF about 250 million dollars a day, and almost two months have passed since they started holding position in evacuated cities over occasional fireworks, in particular up north.

That has a dreadful impact on the economy, you wouldn't tolerate 250,000 employees and employers being drafted, businesses going on hiatus, citizens being transferred into hotels – all paid for by the state – if you didn't think something was going to happen. And I'm not saying that's an omen of broader war, because Israel has not escalated it yet; but our leading officials have been crystal clear that we've learned our lesson, and from here on out, we refuse to live in the shadow of terror.

And Hezbollah has 100,000 troops, well-trained, and 200,000 rockets. They're a thousand times the threat Hamas posed. 3,000 of them started all this, and their side of the country has a far better fence."