Deployed to the region last week in the ongoing US military buildup,
B-52 bombers are in the skies over the Persian Gulf on Monday, joined by
F-15C and F-35A fighters in what officials are calling “visible patrols.”
Defense officials were quoted as saying the idea was for the warplanes
to make “show of presence’ flights around the Gulf, nominally to “deter”
Iran and “defend US forces” in the region.
The deployment of US forces into the region was an opportunity for
officials to play up the possibility of a war with Iran. Actually
deploying more military forces around Iran greatly increases the risk of
a war breaking out, with one little mistake potentially having
disastrous consequences.
Centcom officials bragged about how quickly they’d transferred the B-52s
from the US and got them into the air, saying they left Louisiana and
were in the skies over the Gulf in “a little over 50 hours.”
Though the deployments are in the Persian Gulf, along the Iranian coast,
Centcom referred to it as the “Arabian Gulf,” in keeping with Saudi
Arabia and other nations seeking to rename the Gulf in a way belittling
Iran.
The US is out of line, acting like New York gangsters, you know put a gun to their head and then negotiate. It wasn’t to many years ago we shot down an Iran airliner and killed some three hundred or so innocents, that makes us less then human, yep it’s a proud day to be an American, real proud. Only a coward picks on a weaker opponent. Right in front of God and everybody.
What’s hilarious is that US citizens supporting this insanity consider themselves “conservatives”….
Keep in mind those B-52s would be necessary to support Israel in another attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon and it’s far more likely that’s the reason they’re there. Flying them around in the Persian Gulf is just propaganda.
Visible F-35 patrols…lol.
I think after the RQ-170 was hacked, captured, and reverse engineered, stealth has been a bit less effective.