Keep in mind that we once had many battleships in the fleet. They were rendered obsolete by the airplane.
Battleships are very fat targets in this age.
Bismarck and Musashi were eventually sunk by bombs. Then there was the near-successful attempt sinking USS Cole reflecting the potency of asymmetric warfare, and of course current drone technology which, if Ukrainian boat drones are able to sink large Russian missile cruisers, what more with a battleship about the size of an Iowa?
He’s in it mainly for the belief he wants to show a bigger e-peen.
I’m no conspiracy guy, but there’s no way I believe that one of, if not the, finest intelligence groups on Earth had no idea October 7th was coming. Defending against hostile neighbors is the very raison d’etre of the Israeli intelligence apparatus.
Now that I said that out loud, I hate it, but I still believe it.
They had all the information, but chose to ignore it. Whether the decision to ignore the many warnings was due to incompetence or malice is less certain. Personally I believe the latter, mostly because Netanyahu has been blocking a proper investigation for years now.
*“Israeli officials had obtained Hamas’s plan for an unprecedented attack on Israel over a year in advance, but had deemed the scenario to be aspirational”
“In July, however, an analyst from the elite signals intelligence Unit 8200 warned that Hamas had just conducted a military exercise that in many respects resembled the “Jericho Wall” document’s attack plan.”
"the Israeli army turned a deaf ear to repeated warnings from women soldiers posted as spotters on the border with Gaza in the days leading up to the October 7 Hamas attack. "*
Quotes from https://www.lemonde.fr/en/israel-palestine/article/2023/12/01/new-york-times-investigation-reports-israel-knew-about-hamas-october-7-attack-plan_6305821_139.html
The only way it makes sense otherwise is if they did a 9/11 intel situation where some parts of the apparatus knew but nobody who could use that information got it in time. In 2023. On one of the most aggressively monitored land borders on the planet.
The conspiracy theory is that they didn’t know.
What makes sense to me is that Netanyahu was under massive pressure due to the corruption scandal, etc. Because of that, a lot of the state’s surveillance apparatus was turned inwards.
I’m in the same boat.
Given how aggressive Israel has been in Gaza and how desperate Bibi has been to not go to court, all signs point to Oct 7 being permitted as an excuse.
We are in a seriously dark timeline