The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier and more US air assets to the Middle East, a move that comes amid a US bombing campaign in Yemen and increasing US threats against Iran.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the USS Harry Truman and its strike group will remain in the Middle East and will be joined by the USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying warships, which are traveling to the region from the Asia Pacific.
Parnell said Hegseth also “ordered the deployment of additional squadrons and other air assets that will further reinforce our defensive air-support capabilities.”
Last week, the US sent at least five B-2 bombers to its base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which could be used as a launchpad to bomb either Yemen or Iran. The Biden administration used B-2s to launch heavy airstrikes on Yemen in October 2024, an attack the Pentagon made clear was a message to Iran.
The US has been bombing Yemen every day since launching an initial round of airstrikes on March 15. President Trump has signaled the airstrikes could intensify, warning that if the Houthis don’t stop their attacks, the “real pain is yet to come.”
President Trump also recently threatened Iran with a “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if a deal is not reached on Tehran’s nuclear program. The threat came after Trump’s intelligence agencies said in a threat assessment that Iran was not working toward a nuclear weapon.
How much is all of this open ended deployment of the military costing the tax payer ? It has to be significant
No problem. Borrow and spend.
It's Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in action. According to MMT we will never run out of money, because we can print as much as we need.
(Of course MMT fans don't notice that it only works as long as your creditors trust your currency. For now, US dollars are trusted across the world. But for how much longer?)
Don't worry, Doge cut many domestic programs so that the elites can have their war games and toast each other about how many they killed that day.
Glorious USA. The Writing was on the wall during Trump's first term. Him yelling all over how much of a peace president he was, was the con artists trick for war mongering and killing people. I saw the light back then but it was hidden. MAGA still insists today that killing people will bring peace to the world.
A lot, but no problem, the new tariffs will pay for it. Oh, and who will pay for the tariffs? You and I.
Hey guys, are we really doing this?
Soon the real David and Goliath battle begin between the carriers of the USA the might Nimitz class against drone carriers of Iran.
It will quiet a sight to see when a Nimitz class sinks .
I hope you are not rooting for the sinking of a carrier. In addition to deaths of those sailors, the demand for revenged would make Gaza look like a picnic.
As if you care for those sailors.
"It will (be quite) a sight to see when a Nimitz class sinks."
With you there ! Wonder what the total price tag, including aircraft & munitions on board, will come to. What IS the Kelley Blue Book on a high-mileage 1980 Nimitz-class, no accidents or frame damage ?
Victory @ Sea?!….?…. …. …..
Of course… one aircraft carrier is not enough to confront Houthis… Or USSHT is on its way to Virginia…!
If you really think about it, U.S. only has those carriers and few hundred missiles. It doesn’t have infinite ammo or lives.