The Pentagon has ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel to deter Iran or Hezbollah from joining the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to U.S. officials.
A senior US official and a US official told ABC News that the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group will be ordered to the eastern Mediterranean to join the USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group that arrived there earlier this week and is in international waters off of Israel.
“I have directed the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to begin moving to the Eastern Mediterranean,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a statement confirming the deployment. “As part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack on Israel.”
Why is it that never happened during 2004? Israel attacked Gaza many times before, never did the US send this much military. Do the Americans know the amount of damage Iran can inflict on Israel and that’s why they are sending all this? What can Iran do? If not Iran, who?
The severity of the attack on Hamas’ part makes the US (and many others) believe that their response will be much more severe this time than before.
That means if Iran is going to become directly involved instead of through their Hamas/Hazbollah proxy armies, it’ll most likely be a nuclear counter response to Israel. Once nukes start flying it’s going to be incredibly difficult to de-escalate and there’s still a chance that countries like China and Russia will take up with Iran over it.
Mutually assured destruction keeps us safe, but in times like these it’s at risk of not being enough to stop it. So we send what Iran doesn’t have, overwhelming conventional military force to show that we can stop it without firing our own, thus calling Iran’s bluff.
What are you talking about? What nukes? Who the fuck is going to nuke what?