The US military said Thursday that additional F-15 fighter jets arrived in the Middle East as part of a buildup meant as a threat to Iran as Tehran is vowing it will respond to Israel’s October 26 airstrikes on Iranian territory.
“Today, US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England, arrive in the US Central Command area of responsibility,” US Central Command wrote on X.
The Pentagon announced last week that it was sending additional military assets to the region for the “defense” of Israel. CENTCOM said that B-52 bombers arrived in the region on November 2.
According to flight and satellite data, six US B-52 bombers are at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Haaretz reported that the US F-15 fighter jets were being sent to Jordan. The Pentagon said it would also be deploying additional US Navy destroyers and tanker aircraft to the region.
Before the latest US deployments, the Pentagon sent a THAAD missile defense system and about 100 troops to Israel. The US assets in Israel and elsewhere in the region could become potential targets of Iranian missiles since the US is vowing to defend Israel.
Recent media reports have said Iran is planning to launch a major attack on Israel from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has denied the rumors, saying they’re “false pretexts” to justify aggression against Iraq.
The genocide in Gaza would be impossible without American help.
Same for the war in Ukraine.
But hey, War is a Racket, just as Major General Smedley Butler said.
Recipient of TWO Congressional Medal of Honor for actions as an infantryman during WWI.
"War is a Racket" – not necessarily. Wars could have different motivations. For example, Germany started the war against USSR in 1941 mostly for Lebensraum (the same as current Israeli war against Palestine), while other European countries supported it as crusade against Bolshevism which really was dangerous for Europe.
U.S MIC and U.S. corrupted politicians are interested in wars because it is a lucrative business. They are making money from U.S. taxpayers. It is rather a cheating than anything else. People are thinking that their huge military budget serves somehow to their country's interests, but it does not; it makes only their lives more poor and more dangerous.
When you tell most Americans that the Pentagram spends more than the next 10 countries COMBINED (8 of which are our allies) they don't believe you. Almost all will tell you that Russia and/or China spend just as much, even though we could reduce or military spending by over 50% and still be wasting more than both of them combined.
The USSR never invaded Germany, the Arabs invaded Israel in 1947,,1973,and 2023. Meanwhile,the USSR had no problem in raping Poland and Finland.
Not possible for the Arabs to invade Israhell in 1947… it did not exist. From 1948-1949 Israhell was busy ethnically cleansing Palestine of ~ 700,000 Palestinians which is fact was ~ half the population of Manditory Palestine. The 6 day war in 1967 was started by Israhell, not the Arab nations purely for lebensraum.
Excellent read, that one. Also he lays out neatly, the logistics Germany would have required in WW1 to launch a successful invasion of North America.
Suffice to say, most of Europe COMBINED didn't have what Germany would have needed.
Particularly as we approach Remembrance Day (as it used to be known in Canada – now the name's the same but it's effectively "Hooray For The Military Day" since 2001) it's worth noting that Europe would've been better off if the USA hadn't joined the Great War and if Germany had won.
https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket/
(free download)
'War is a Racket' by General Smedley Butler, 1935
What exactly are seventy-year-old bombers supposed to do? Flying missions against modern air defenses?
They can launch cruise missiles and glide bombs. They can also do high altitude carpet bombing. How much good any of that will do is problematic since most useful Iranian facilities are underground, and US cruise missiles are easily jammed and shot down by Iranian air defense. Some might get through, however. There are always "leakers", as Andrei Martyanov says.
North Vietnam shot down 10 of them using ancient Soviet air defenses during the Vietnam war.
However, their most important use is likely in bombing southern Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq where the air defenses are weak. The US can't do anything effective except kill civilians – just like Israel.
If the real war starts, I would imagine Iran could hit them while they are on the ground, or, as they are detected leaving their bases.
Hypersonic missiles could take them out as will as the base runways.
If Iran has missiles that are capable of doing it, Iran could take out U.S. satellites. China has demonstrated its ability to do it.
What I am saying, is the idiots in D.C. are playing with our lives.
Satellites are easy targets. The US took out one of its own spy satellites in the '80s by accident by focusing it at an especially intense forest fire in Siberia, now several countries have developed laser satellite blinders. Explosive killer satellites, like China experimented with, are a really bad idea unless your goal is to actually create a Kessler Syndrome situation.
The US, and undoubtedly Russia and China at a minimum, have a "smart bullet" system, a bullet which can be directed in flight. This could be used to destroy the power supply or communications array and kill a satellite without a lot of dangerous shrapnel flying around. They weigh almost nothing and could be attached to pretty much any satellite.
It's nuclear threat (potentially). The USA has been dealing with the problem of its aircraft carriers becoming "sitting ducks" vs land-based missile/dron attacks (USS Eisenhower got hit by Yemen months ago and that's the destiny that awaits to any US fleet in the area should all hell break loose, as it's likely). Having bombers and jets in underground hangars in a suppossedly "neutral" state as is Qatar, makes the US deployment much stronger (and Qatar much more exposed to Iranian anger).
Stratospheric carpet bombing is probably impervious to any sort of air defenses that is not actual jets scrambling up there, and that's why the F-15 have been deployed: to escort and protect the B-52.
"USS Eisenhower got hit by Yemen months" That did not happen.
It did happen: Yemen reported it and simultaneously the USS pulled it out to Saudi Arabia and then to Europe for emergency repairs, it never returned. Join the dots or believe blindly the lies of the White House / Pentagon.
standoff release of cruise missiles is probably the only thing that makes sense
Fire stand off weaponss from 1,000 miles away.
The ultimate question remains… WHY?!…
Why what? Why the Gaza genocide? Because Trump, Netanyahu, Bin Salman and Al Sissi agreed to destroy Gaza to the last person in order to build a canal (revelations of Bin Farhan, June 2017, Middle East Monitor).
That overall plan for the ME goes back to the 50s at least if you listen to Michael Hudson and later Wesley Clark.
I listened to the interview with Hudson. The glitch in the plans has to be the prospect of nuclear war. An unwinnable war.
The country that "wins" will have its population die just like the population of the "enemy".
When I was a high school senior, I read On the Beach during one study hall hour. Scared the sh*t out of me. Saddened me as well.
The movie of the same title, starring Gregory Peck, did likewise. Such a sad ending, Ava Gardner watching the nuclear sub, captained by Peck, descend into the ocean for its last voyage. "The world will not end with a bang, but with a whimper".
I haven’t seen that but will look for it.
Maybe but there have been forths and backs and, for example, when the Oslo Accords were signed there was at least a partial true intent to actually end the conflict: that’s why both Rabin and Arafat were murdered. In any case the suppossed “Greater Israel” from the Euphrates to the Nile is a total unrealistic rant, what they’re trying to do is more limited: to eradicate the Palestinians in Palestine (they’re even passing racist laws against “Israeli Arabs” to be able to arbitrarily deport them on grounds of “treason”, laws that won’t apply to the privileged “Israeli Jewish” citizens, no matter what they do). They’re bound to fail IMO but the suffering and actual genocide by famine, etc. is very very real and is happening now.
Yes, but they are extending it into Lebanon and hoping for Iran too.
The empire and Israel together are full of lunacy and psychopathy.
The Lebanon part may be somewhat real and even with a stretch “realistic”, but in Iran all they hope for is regime change: they’ve been even talking of a return of the sha (a descendant), as if that could be even possible.
Crazy.
Why would they need to destroy Gaza to build a canal?
Because Gaza would be one of the end points of the canal (the other would be Eilat of course) and they want not to “destroy” Gaza but to genocide it, to remove every single Palestinian Native presence. They want that canal to be secure and 100% under Israeli control. At least that’s how I understand it.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/05/736667/Netizens-erupt-in-outrage-as-Israeli-company-streams-genocidal-flattening-of-Gaza
I'm so disgusted and angry. I can't take it anymore.
Ditto that mercy, ditto that.
So much. Cosigned.
We fund it. We allow it. We are quite immoral. Sickening.
There are lies we have been fed. Many lies.
Who funds Hamas and Hez?
Not the superpower obviously. Otherwise, Israel wouldn't be killing with impunity.
I've said before – if the USA didn't deserve the first 9/11, they sure as f**k deserve their next one.
They deserved the first one too.
So a bunch of peopple going to work to make a living deserved"it"? Really!
Didn't say that. The US deserved to be attacked. Really.
Just how badly to you hate the USA to take joy in the deaths of 3,000 Americans?
Where did I say I took joy? The US deserved to be attacked. 9/11 was blowback.
Yeah, tho would that it would’ve been exclusively military targets. Pentagon, and the White House like in the parallel universe in “Fringe”.
And by "they", I certainly didn't mean the innocents that were killed that day. And if the pentagon or White House had been hit, I would have hoped they were vacated prior to being hit also. The genocide has affected me to the point of wanting things I didn't want before. I've got to clean that up.
And by "they", I certainly didn't mean the innocents that were killed that day. And if the pentagon or White House had been hit, I would have hoped they were vacated prior to being hit also. The genocide has affected me to the point of wanting things I didn't want before. I've got to clean that up.
How do US Air Force military personnel behave outside the airbase? An example in Germany:
A US soldier from Spangdahlem airfield kills another fairgoer with a knife at a funfair in Germany in a mutual dispute.
https://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/News/For-the-Media/Display/Article/3933546/us-service-member-acquitted-in-wrongful-death-case/
https://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/293554/52nd-fighter-wing/
https://afngo.net/afneurope/Spangdahlem/radio/Spangdahlem
https://www-swr-de.translate.goog/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/trier/demonstration-in-spangdahlem-wegen-freispruch-us-soldat-im-fall-messerstecherei-saeubrennerkirmes-wittlich-100.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://www.army.mil/article/271394/how_u_s_military_law_works_in_germany
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-669-prosecution-military-personnel
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/military_law
https://jsc.defense.gov/ Joint Service Committee on Military Justice (JSC)
https://vwac.defense.gov/ Victim and Witness Assistance
https://www.afjag.af.mil/Portals/77/documents/Publications/MCL23WEB_r.pdf
https://www.jag.navy.mil/
https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/
https://www.youtube.com/@usarmy
https://www.youtube.com/@USAMilitaryChannel/featured
Excellent sourcing, excellent!
Remember when Trump wanted to move the US bases or part of them to Poland and Merkel begged him not to do it? Well, that. The German political class is largely to blame.
I am sure that Putin was not happy with the prospects of that move.
WOW, Thank you!
Cases like these abound in Okinawa. The main businesses in Okinawa for the Marines garrisoned there are houses of prostitution. One of the worst cases was the rape of a 12 year old girl.
Status of Forces agreements with countries where our military personnel are garrisoned does not allow miscreant American military personnel who break the law to be prosecuted by the authorities of those countries, but be sent home for further investigation and perhaps courts martial.
Dammit – just alluded to Okinawa then discovered you covered it.
Then delete your last two simultaneous comments, or are you engaged in intelligence activities?
Very little I do could be considered “intelligence”. Barely even “smartass”. And I leave my Comments as-is-where-is. My mistakes are frequent (like thinking US voting age was 21, not 18) and it’s best I own them and personally resolve to do better.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/10/okinawa-governor-blasts-us-militarys-lack-of-transparency-sharing-alleged-crimes-troops.html
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/118-criminal-cases-including-sexual-abuse-filed-against-us-soldiers-in-japan-last-year/3309603
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15359835 Okinawa-U.S. military forum proposed after assaults escalate
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240821/p2a/00m/0na/014000c Over 60% of crimes involving US military personnel in Japan took place in Okinawa Pref.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/12/nx-s1-5035032/sexual-assault-cases-involving-u-s-military-personnel-strain-relations-with-japan
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-10-04/okinawa-military-crime-statistics-15398023.html
https://www.cid.army.mil/Media/Press-Center/Article-Display/Article/3668673/okinawa-based-soldier-sentenced-to-240-months-in-prison/
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/us-military-sexual-assault-rates-2-4-higher-govt-estimates-study-says-rcna166490
On the plus side, things have neen JUST FINE in Okinawa…
Seems like the all out war is about to happen, the behavior and declarations from both sides point to that.
Does not matter who is in the White House.
They wanted me to choose between a warmonger and a megalomaniac. But I voted for the Jew with integrity. If more people had voted for Jill Stein, it would have sent a message.
Be careful what you aim for… You just might hit it… This is not a Palestine, we are talking about, this is Iran, fully capable and willing to potentially engage US.
Iran would be very foolish to directly take on the USA.
We're just trying to defend our B-52s from "Iranian aggression," while we're bombing the $hit out of Iran to keep the genoc!de going. …Now. …Get down on the floor, face up, so I can take a dump of "Moral Superiority" on all your faces.
"Today, US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England…"
Boy, isn't THAT the illustration of empire. Proud American jets, stationed in a country not needing external defense support since the 1940s.
I'm loosely reminded of that throwaway joke from The Simpsons, at an airshow : "Get ready for the pride of the United States Air Force: the British-made Harrier Jump Jet !"
Obviously, the action serves to scrap the old war material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Strike_Eagle
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-troops-middle-east-mapping-military-presence
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/10/01/how_many_us_troops_are_in_the_middle_east_1062050.html
https://www.defensenews.com/?source=air-nav
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/3959757/national-guard-soldiers-train-for-middle-east-mission/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/222920/deployment-of-us-troops-in-selected-world-regions/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294271/us-troops-europe-country/
https://www.dw.com/en/us-military-in-germany-what-you-need-to-know/a-49998340
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-where-are-american-troops-stationed-overseas/
Funny line. It ignore the fact the USA Harriers were made by McDonnell Douglas.
And I thought it was the US Marine Corps that used them, not the Air Force.
So when did a B-52 become a "defensive" weapon? An AWACS, possibly, fighter aircraft, sure, but a long range strategic bomber? No fucking way in hell.
Betcha many of the pilots fly back commercial leaving their jets for Israel to have.