Trump suggests one "Iron dome" on the United States, but analysts warn

Historic encore in the Republican primaries for Donald Trump, who also wins in New Hampshire: for him over 50% of the vote, which puts him one step away from the nomination for the White House. He is the first non-incumbent GOP candidate in modern times to win both Iowa and the Granite State. But the gap to her only remaining rival, Nikki Haley, is less than about 20% of polls the night before, although still in double digits: 54.6% to 43.6%, with 82% of ballots counted. And while we talk about the triumph of the former occupant of the White House, attention also falls on the words that the tycoon uttered last Sunday at a rally in New Hampshire.

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“I will prevent the outbreak of World War III,” he declared. As? By building “an Iron Dome over our country, a state-of-the-art missile shield, all made in the USA,” declared Donald Trump. It is not the first time that this hypothesis has found a place in the ideas of the former US president. “For me this is really very important. We give billions of dollars to other countries to build a dome, but we don't have one. We will have the largest dome ever,” he said a month ago in Iowa, referring to the US system that protects Israel from Hamas rockets in particular.

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However, analysts believe that the defense system protecting the Tel Aviv state is perfect for the small size of this country. As we read in an article in Il Giornale, “Israeli's Iron Dome batteries intercept missiles fired no more than 70 kilometers away, and each of them is capable of defending an area of ​​up to 60 square miles, which roughly corresponds to the territorial extent of Washington.” DC”.