Admiral Stavridis: Israelis Strike on Iran Was ‘Limited’ to Show They Can Penetrate Iranian Air Defense

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STAVRIDIS: "I think it was indeed a muted strike, a limited strike. Clearly, Israel, as we talked about earlier in the week, Joe, had a basket of options here. They could have gone big. There were certainly voices in Israel calling for that. They could have simply left it as cyber, non-kinetic kind of operation. They chose, as you and I talked about a few days ago, kind of in the middle. I think what they sought to do, and they accomplished, was to show that they can penetrate Iranian air defenses. We’ll know a bit more here over the next 24, 48 hours as battle damage assessments come out. But I, for one, believe that we’re now in a 90% probability that this will settle down, go back into the shadows, follow a path of de-escalation. I think there’s still a 10% chance it could flair up in a bigger way.”