The US is sending more warships and additional fighter jets to the Middle East as part of a deployment that’s “entirely focused on defending Israel,” a White House official said Sunday.
The Pentagon announced Friday that it’s sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which has been operating in the Middle East. The US is also sending additional US Navy cruisers and destroyers and bolstering its land-based missile defense systems in the region.
A Pentagon official told Air & Space Forces Magazine that a US Air Force squadron of F-22 Raptor fighters jets is also headed to the region.
The US and Israel are expecting a major attack from Iran and its allies in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran and a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut.
White House Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer claimed the purpose of the new military deployments was to reduce tensions in the region even though US military support has only emboldened Israel to escalate.
“The overall goal is to turn the temperature down in the region, deter and defend against those attacks and avoid regional conflict, which has been our goal really since October 7,” Finer told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
While the Biden administration has claimed its goal has been to avoid a regional war, reports as far back as November 2023 said that the US believed Israel was trying to provoke a major conflict, and the US continued supplying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with weapons and political support.
The US pledge to defend Israel also makes it more likely that US assets in the region could be targeted in any reprisal attacks. Iran’s allies in Iraq and Syria could target US bases as a way to distract the US from any Iranian missiles fired toward Israel, or the Houthis in Yemen could ramp up attacks on US warships.
Our own military is used to defend not us, but Israel, lovely. Using our own tax dollars and solders' lives to defend the most prominent genocider of the 21st century, Netanyahu. We sure have our priorities straight!
Not heard? US capital moved to Tel Aviv years ago.
The Knesset is our parliament, of which our brain dead congress is a part of.
Rigged elections have consequences. It is now dawning on millions of Americans that we are hurtling absent-mindedly into another Middle East War and nobody really knows who is actually in control and making the decisions in this White House.
“Ask half the country and they’ll tell you without reservation that former and quite possibly future president, Donald Trump, should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors. Ask the other half of the country and they’ll argue just as ferociously that it is the outgoing convalescent-in-chief, Joe Biden, who should be strung up in ill-fitting manacles and hung out to dry on Devil’s Island for his sundry presidential sins. The uncomfortable truth is that both halves of this divided nation are right, though all too often for all the wrong reasons, and both of these partisan tribes are dead wrong for failing to see that both of these ancient creeps are veritable mirror images of one another.” — Comrade Hermit
Politics is a disease worse than drug addiction.Individual politicians rarely count,it is issues of war and peace, and keeping this planet alive and green that count.
Politics is a disease that is part of the disease of war. The War Racket. Major General Smedley Butler was so right.
Suddenly Jake is an Enviromentalist!!
I guess any distraction well do to hide & obsfuscate the terrible toll of innocent women & KIDS his home team Israel has up on their GENOCIDE scareboard: 39,000 at least. We will have to wait till their rampage is over to HOPE TO GET an honest number of just how many perished IN THIS EPISODE OF Israeli lawn care!!! Not so much mowing the grass BUT PULLING IT OUT WITH THE ROOTS!
Wipe out peaceful Israeli villages,and incur the wrath.
"Onward Christian Soldiers!" bibi's favorite hymn.
No, no, no. It is "onward useful idiots!".
The end of the American empire is near.
Already here. No hypersonics, no super nukes & a flock of CHICKENS our NATO ALLIES. Only two nuclear bomb states in the Alliance and both second tier military powers. We have layed ourselves into a corner. As in We are Cornered by the China Russia duo.
"The White House claims the deployments are meant to ease tensions but US military support has only emboldened Israel to escalate." That's what I call, "The Audacity of Hubris."
One of the most oxymoron statements I have ever heard. And at 80 I have heard a lot of them.
I like that "The Audacity Of Hubris" but perhaps more like the folly of hubris, or "Falicous Strength" of HUBRIS.
I was inspired by Obama’s “Audacity of Hope,” which ended up as the “Audacity of Bull $hit.”
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Israel made its own bed- let them sleep in it.
Didn't do it on their own. Thank the U.K. and the U.S.
So, it is not "Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself" anymore…!
It's more like "US Has the Right to Defend Israel"…!
Without US, Israel would be defeated….! When that happens the empire starts dying….!
I just love having my president and congressional representative spending my tax dollars in this manner. /s
Why are they defending GENOCIDE???
They should be sending OUR military to Gaza to defenf the innocent Palestinians FROM the Israeli GENOCIDE. Biden should go to the HAGUE to be charged.
Wrong!!! Our military should be at both our northern and southern borders period!!!
You’d be better off sending your military home to get them off the government workfare teat and back into the productive sector.
"To sustain and suppport this GENOCIDE of Palestinian women & CHI:DREN…!!!!!!!!" Me TOO..!!
US Aircraft Carriers and Fighter Jet Squadron will be a non-factor in this type of warfare.
Yeah, they were relevant in 1943 – not anymore.
Not only do they have no role, but our enemies also know how to blow them out of the water. Or at a minimum cripple them.
The US Navy has admitted that its surface vessels have no defense, not even a theoretical one, against hypersonic missiles.
DIE EMPIRE DIE BEFORE YOU KILL US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s how the old Rome fell.
As I've repeated ad nauseum for months, all of this has been planned from the git-go. The US wants a war with Iran. That's it. End of story.
‘Everything Is Collapsing’: Israeli Reservists Confront Toll of Protracted War
Israel did not prepare itself for a long war; we thought about a big strike of the air force and then a fast maneuver by the ground forces,” said former Israeli National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror. “The longer the time, the more problematic it is to maintain the support and the readiness” of the fighting forces.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/everything-is-collapsing-israeli-reservists-confront-toll-of-protracted-war/ar-AA1ocwr1
The suicide rate by the IDF reservists might be up. Just going around killing women and children or watching fellow reservists do it, would be enough to put their minds around the bend.
Seems MOST THE COUNYRY HAS TURNED DOWN THE GENOCIDE BEND!!!!!!!!! There is no EXCUSE FOR GENOCIDE… NOR FORGIVENESS
OMG!!!!!! THERE IS A GENOCIDE GOING ON IN THE HOLY LAND JOE….!!! WHAT TO DO.. SEND AN ARMADA TO HELP VICTIMS??BUT NO DEMENTIS JOE SENDS THE ARMADA TO DEFEND THE PERPETRATORS…… A DAY THAT WILL DWELL IN INFAMY FOR AS LONG AS THE GERMAN GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS!!!!!!!