For the third time since November, the US deployed B-52 bombers to the Middle East in a show of force aimed at Iran.
US Central Command said in a statement that two B-52s left from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota on Tuesday morning and flew a non-stop 30-hour mission to the region. The long-range bombers flew over the Persian Gulf, near Iran’s coast.
The provocative maneuver comes at a time of heightened tensions, with both the US and Israel constantly hyping the threat of a potential Iranian attack. With the upcoming anniversary of the US assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, an unnamed US official told Fox News that Iran wants to “avenge the killing.”
The unnamed official said the US is “seeing planning” for “complex attacks” that would require “Iranian assistance in order to be pulled off.” One country the anonymous source said an attack was possible was Iraq, where the US embassy in Baghdad was recently targeted in a rocket attack.
President Trump blamed the Baghdad attack on Iran, but Tehran denied having any role. Iran has every reason to avoid a military confrontation with the US before President Trump leaves office and has even urged its allies in Iraq not to fire on US forces. But some Iraqi militias have rejected the Iranian warning, and there are plenty of factions inside Iraq that have their own reasons to attack the US.
Since the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an apparent Israeli plot, Israel’s military has also been warning of Iranian attacks. Like the US, the Israelis are poised to blame any attack in the region on Iran.
Anyone else does that “show of force” ploy, it’s called “ratcheting up the tensions”
well that proved a lot.
The American Broken record of Gunboat Diplomacy, didnt work in the Twentieth century isnt working in the 21st!
Bullying. Pure, unadulterated bullying.
Where are all the Trump supporters claiming Trump “hasn’t started any new wars”? It’s not for lack of trying. And it depends on what you consider an act of war to be. I’d call assassination and attempted coups acts of war. Ditto bombing a country, invading its borders and seizing its oil fields. And so on. True, when the other side can’t fight back, technically it’s not war. No, it’s something far worse.
If you love wars, you’ll love the historical WAR Party when they take over. By your definition we’ve probably gone 70 years of starting wars.
The war party moving in is just replacing the war party moving out.
Trump fired 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria…….34 of them vanished. This was trumps first military action, it was a failure. Trump after this never attacked another country, he had understood that US air power and superiority was over. The Russian S300-S400 systems had massively escalated the cost of fighting illegal wars to loot nations.
Was Trump testing the waters when he sent 59 missiles? He must of been shocked when 54% of them went missing. Did the S300-S400 systems force Trump to be a President that didn’t start a war? If so they will force Biden’s hand too.
It would appear that the S300-S400’s are an anti NATO/US device in a box.
Biden’s only option is now to send in US troops and take massive casualties to loot nations for corporate America. Or they can just loot Americans which of course they are doing.
“Trump after this never attacked another country.”
I guess your definition of “attack” is different than mine. Those 59 missiles were launched in 2017. We bombed Afghanistan more in ’18 more than at any point during Obama’s years. We bombed Somalia more than Bush and Obama combined.
It would be much cheaper to send a message by snail mail or even email.
More deaths from Covid-19 in the US each day than 9/11 and this clown of an ex POTUS wastes money and resources intimidating other countries.
Middle East or Diego Garcia…?! Lol…!
“Message to Iran” is the language of the belligerent. Who makes these headings?