Thread by @IbnRiad

🧵Thread: Escalation Ladder
The resistance axis have been very gradually escalating operations in the region. But even gradual escalation builds up over time- & this is central to the doctrine of the Escalation Ladder by which they are pressuring the US-Zionist aggression.

As discussed prior, this pressure takes away the one element that the US-Zionist aggression was banking on for their war against Gaza's resistance: time. They will not be allowed a gradual, risk-free operation more akin to a medieval siege than an assault.

https://x.com/IbnRiad/status/1720915480347615604?s=20

Another purpose of the Escalation Ladder is to avoid forcing the US-Zionist enemy into immediate deadly retaliation that leads straight into all-out war.
The below tweet describes how this works very well in the Yemeni context specifically:

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1722707308923285552?s=20

If the nations & factions of the Resistance Axis had conducted attacks from day one at the same level & scale that they are conducting them at today, there is a high chance it would have sparked an immediate regional war.
By gradually building up, this has thus far been avoided.

This also means the US-Zionist faction have an ongoing chance to back down at any point.
For us, this means avoiding the widespread regional (maybe even global) bloodbath that all-out war will result in.
For them, it is a chance to avoid a war that they surely know can end them.

But this is not an indefinite offer - the longer their assault goes on, the higher the price they pay (whether through Iraqi fire against US bases in the region or Lebanese and Yemeni strikes against the Zionist army) - and the closer an all-out confrontation becomes.

The Resistance Axis is not afraid of total war, but want to take every chance to avoid the devastation the US-Zionist faction would cause across West Asia.
But if imperialist arrogance does not take this chance to step down, escalation will continue all thew ay up to total war.

In the context of this equation, we need to understand that every single faction of the wider Resistance Axis is holding back an significant amount of their capabilities and firepower, to be brought to bear in further stages of escalation, and especially in the case of total war.

🇾🇪 This is why Yemen is only sending smaller quantities of drones and missiles than it is capable of, and why they are not yet targeting US or Zionist army ships in the Red Sea - or indeed why they are not yet targeting "Tel Aviv", though they are fully capable of doing so.

🇮🇶 This is why Iraq began only targeting limited US bases at low frequencies - but now target a wider range of bases, with growing frequency, and with more destructive weaponry.
This week they introduced the use of their Aqsa-1 ballistic missile, & will use more as time goes on.

🇱🇧 This is why the Lebanese Resistance started with rockets fired by allies, then occasional ATGM fire - and have thus far escalated to unprecedented ATGM and machine-gun attacks across the length of the border.
A single Burkan was fired as a warning shot - and more will come.

🇵🇸 Even the Palestinian resistance in Gaza has not yet used the entirety of its capabilities - they have only used a modest number of their long-range missiles, and no doubt possess missiles with greater destructive capability, and other surprises they are saving for the future.

Even the means of confronting the Zionist army's ground incursion that the resistance in Gaza has used thus far is far from the full extent of what they have prepared - they have learned to always hold back more, to be used as the time for it approaches.

The homemade Yassin-105 has been incredibly effective, and, being domestically produced is more easily replaced - but they also have Bulsae-2 and Kornet ATGMs that they have only used sparingly, to say nothing of what drones and other surprises they have in stock.

This is also to say that despite all the Zionist "media victories" (& the occasional worries of some supporters of the resistance), the resistance themselves do not yet see the military situation as advanced enough to warrant the use of the more special arms they have prepared.

The resistance in Gaza, like the rest of the axis, is prepared for a longer, wider war, and have much and more saved up for it.
This is part of the Doctrine of Surprises, famously established by Sayyid Hassan during the 2006 war (see mini-thread below).

https://x.com/IbnRiad/status/1265747610155077632?s=20

Even the resistance in the West Bank has not yet fully mobilized all its capabilities. The Lion's Den has conducted low-key operations and the resistance in Jenin has been on the defensive - but be sure that in the case of total war, the West Bank, too, is full of surprises.

This, as ever, takes nothing away from the heartbreaking suffering of Gaza; the discussion of military doctrine in the wider context of liberation does not mean that Gaza's suffering is acceptable, but nor does it mean that its resistance is not winning.

https://x.com/IbnRiad/status/1718359824415547848?s=20

Ultimately, the responsibility for Gaza's suffering does not lie with the resistance (any resistance), all of whom must function within the framework of sacrifice- but rather with the Zionist monster and the world that has either stood with them or else failed to shackle them.

The martyrs of Gaza, in their tens of thousands, will be an indelible stain upon the myth of the "rules-based world order", and their blood will be the cleansing flood that does away with it, and heralds the beginning of an age where justice is no longer a farcical myth.

God-willing, upon the pure soil of Gaza will the Zionist occupation and its imperialist American master be shattered, broken and buried - for this is the least achievement that the truly legendary people of Gaza and its resistance deserve.

And should Gaza's victory require total war, then so be it: let our blood join the pure blood of Gaza, and add to the tide that does away with this cruel, uncaring world and opens the way for a new one.

To Al-Quds we march, martyrs in the millions.
عالقدس رايحين شهداء بالملايين