US B-52 bombers arrived in the Middle East on Saturday as part of a new deployment to “defend” Israel amid speculation over whether or not Iran will respond to Israel’s October 26 attack.
“B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base’s 5th Bomb Wing arrived in the US Central Command area of responsibility,” US Central Command wrote on X.
The Pentagon announced it was beefing up its military presence in the region on Friday, saying Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the “deployment of additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several US Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region.”
The Pentagon said the purpose of the deployment is the “protection of US citizens and forces in the Middle East, the defense of Israel, and de-escalation.” The US also recently deployed a THAAD missile defense system and about 100 troops to Israel.
Iranian officials have been vowing there will be a response to Israel’s attack, which killed four Iranian soldiers and one civilian. Israel launched the airstrikes on Iran in retaliation for the October 1 Iranian missile barrage that was fired into Israel in response to a string of Israeli escalations and assassinations in the region.
Axios has reported that Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is planning to launch a major attack from Iraqi territory and that it could happen before the US presidential election on November 5. However, a report published by The Wall Journal on Sunday said that Iran didn’t want to influence the US election and would likely wait until after.
The Journal report, which cited unnamed Arab and Iranian officials, said Iran has told Arab diplomats it’s planning a complex response against Israel that would involve more powerful warheads and other weapons not used in its previous attacks on Israeli territory. One source said Iran would likely target military facilities again “but much more aggressively than last time.”
Another Axios report said the US warned Iran that if it attacked, the US wouldn’t be able to restrain Israel. “We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back, and we won’t be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one,” a US official told Axios.
And who is going to deploy forces to protect Lebanon?
The B-52 can in no way be considered a defensive weapon, there is no use for it except as an attack platform.
And they're deploying troops and offensive weapons in the service of "deescalation"? George Orwell must be spinning in his grave fast enough to power a generator that could power the entire East Coast.
Peace through strength.
Israel seems to be trying to kill its way to peace, which has never worked once in all of history although it's been tried many times. More violence only leads to more violence.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.” – Jesse Potter
Glad you weren’t Dwight Eisenhower during WWII.
Wow, so reading comprehension was never part of your grade school curriculum? I thought Israel’s educational system was better than that. Guess I was informed incorrectly.
Because defeating Nazi Germany is exactly like beating a country with 1/20 our economy and 1/50 our military spending and who has not initiated a war against any other country in more than 200 years?
Precisely.
So you mean that when Iran funds, trains, arms and directs Hezbollah and Hamas, they are nevertheless off the hook for any aggression that these proxies commit against Israel? In my book they initiated a war with Israel several decades ago.
Aw, that's so cute. So, Hezbollah just up and picked on poor peaceful Israel because, well, they're evil or something? It had nothing to do with being repeatedly invaded and occupied over many years?
As for Hamas, I'd be careful about "funding" and "aiding" accusations … the Israeli govt and its leaders are on the record admitting they set up and funded the group and kept it going. Iran, being Shia, is much more skittish.
No, chief, like it or not, you are on the side of the warmongering ethno-fascists on this one. Good luck with that.
Sure. I’ll just take your word for it “chief”. Interesting that Hezbollah decided to “pick on poor peaceful Israel” on October 8. They had time to stop but Nasrallah thought he could walk a fine line. Now we see the results. It is said that Iran will fight Israel to the last drop of Arab blood. Well that won’t wash anymore. They can’t hide behind their proxies
What a pile of hypocritical nonsense!
Death to the Zionist war mongers.
End all US aid to Israel!
Any other brilliant retorts dummy?
GFY, killer.
Ah, yes, history started in Oct 7 again, yes?
Well, we shall see … for now, we saw what the "like no one has seen before" and "they won't know what hit them" Israeli attack on Iran was like. One more like that and Iran will be forced to surrender, I'm sure …
How does it feel to defend genocidal murderers?
That sounds like a question you should answer.
The numbers tell a diferent story, killer.
You Zionists are always playing the victim, even while killing 10's of thousands.
Death to Zionism!
No, Chief, I think the people defending the Israeli mass killers of Gaza’s tens of thousands of innocent men women and children need to answer. You will never be forgiven. Already, many many Israeli soldiers are suffering the effects of the genocide they have committed and this will spread to the whole society. Some crimes are so evil the taint is generational.
Believe me, I know many Americans who are still paying for the evil done in Vietnam. Generational payback not yet completed.
What a stupid comparison. American soldiers in Vietnam had no idea what they were fighting for. Israeli soldiers have no doubt that they are fighting for the lives of their children. I follow Israeli media closely. You clearly do not. There is tension in Israeli society (as there always has been) but most is related to the hostages. The vast majority agree that this war was a necessary and inevitable response to October 7.
Then the vast majority are evil, genocidal killers.
The vast majority agree that this war was a necessary and inevitable response to October 7.
And at no point, they, and apparently you, didn't think the response was just a bit over the top, brutality wise?
"I follow Israeli media closely."
I think that is fairly obvious. You seem to be swallowing their lies hook, line and sinker.
The lives of Israeli children are not at risk from 5-year old Gazan boys and girls … or any other civilians.
This is a very simple test: if Israel was interested in catching the actual people who committed the Oct 7 attack, they would have approached it as a large-scale criminal matter: search Gaza house to house, building to building, hospital by hospital, and catch or if necessary kill the people responsible. Gaza is not large. The whole thing would have been done by now and the hostages released too.
Aerial bombardment is NOT a morally acceptable response to a criminal act. That is an act of a genocidal nation set on ethnic cleansing. Defenders of such have no defense.
This is not a “criminal act” but an act of war. Israel has made great efforts to reduce civilian harm. Sadly Hamas wants Gazans dead. Especially children. This sells well in western media. The fact that they have been unable to recover more than a handful of hostages tells you how well your proposal would work.
Make up your mind, chief: either Hamas is a military force, which means they can declare war (but are due all the courtesies due between soldiers upon capture) or they are terrorists who commit crimes. The latter one tests better for your propaganda purposes.
Either way, mass killing of civilians is illegal and immoral. As for the hostages, as the soldiers would diligently be searching house by house w/o bombing all buildings down and creating endless chaos and hiding places, they would have a MUCH better chance of (1) not inadvertently killing hostages, (2) finding them, and (3) negotiating for their release in exchange for arresting terrorists i/o killing them. But that of course depends on wanting to preserve life over committing ethnic cleansing, so it was not to be.
Hamas is a terrorist organization with an army (or at least it was). This is an urban war where the enemy purposefully embeds itself among civilians. The blame belongs with Hamas. No nation on earth would respond any differently and the majority would be much more ruthless.
Utter nonsense and I notice you have no rebuttal re the hostages …
I believe that you are here to stir the pot, but are lacking in any real conviction. Israeli society as a whole needs to be re-educated, and possibly evacuated from Palestine before real harm comes its way. You can only act like the devil for so long before you land on your sword. Sadly good Israeli's will be caught up with the bad ones…
The IDF and IAF are mere cowards in the face of real fighting men…What has Israel gained? its economy is in tatters, Hezbollah are thankfully laying waste to these creatures on the Lebanese boarder, and all Israel can do is kill woman and children from the air, and on the ground when they are not being terminated by Hamas and Hezbollah . They are thankfully close to being booted from the UN since they hate law and order and embrace chaos and mass murder instead…The resistance needs to save Israel from itself…
They don't need to…the last attempt of Israel to strike Iran was weak, and did no real damage versus what Iran was able to accomplish on October 1st. Hmmm? I wonder why those F35's didn't dare Iranian airspace?? and then went home…Israel can definitely use a nuke, but so can Iran…Israel is a one bomb state..one nuke and it is over.
I think you are woefully misinformed. Israeli jets were flying in Iranian skies for 4 hours unmolested. They had taken down all of the Iranian S300 batteries and were able to act at will after. Are you getting your information from Iranian media? Yes Israel is a one bomb country. All the more reason to remove the Iranian nuclear threat
Lol…wait..lol…any israeli jet who would have attempted to infiltrate Iranian skies would have been dusted…I was hoping for this, but the IAF were too chicken, and actually called off the attack after their first wave per se’ You must get your news from the laughable Zionist sources who take lying to a new level….beheaded babies…heads chopped off….BTW Iran has multiple batteries of S400’s which would take the F35’s and alike to the ground….
Good one. As a matter of fact, some pathetic Iranian air farce jets took to the sky but quickly landed when they realized that they wouldn’t last 5 minutes. I know it’s hard for you to accept the sad performance of Iran against Yahudi armed forces, but that’s just the truth.
Sad performance? you mean the brutal performance on October 1st…all of those hypersonic missiles hitting Zionist bases….yeah….Iran does not need aircraft to decimate the Iron Dome, or any of Israel’s sub par defenses. The IAF and IDF are only good at fighting defenseless people without aircraft defenses. The latest Israeli attack was a brutal failure and exposed the utter weakness of the IAF in the face of a real military.
How about we wait a few days. I doubt that Iran will respond to Israel’s attack because they are aware that the consequences will be severe. But if their “honour” compels them to do something stupid, we will see how effective their air defences are
Pray for Israel…the world has no empathy for them..they are a cowardly war criminal state. If Israel strikes again, Iran will make sure that Israel looks like Gaza.
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"So YOU mean that when the USA funds, trains, arms and ignores IDF genocide and war crimes, they are nevertheless off the hook for any aggression that these proxies commit against Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, West Bank ?"
Do you see how your argument so easily backfires ?
Why can't I block this guy? The three big dots don't show next to the 3 small ones at the upper right of his post.
I love you too
Weird, they do on mine …
But I'd suggest not blocking "Odele" … reading his stuff is like reading the NY Times ,,, it lets you know what the latest talking points of the system are … very useful.
LOL
Hey Cal, interesting article someone linked on x. It adds context to the nyt propaganda:
All the Consent That's Fit to Manufacture"
Why Does The Times Own a Stolen House?
https://newyorkwarcrimes.co…
Ghada Karmi returns to Qatamon
A photo from an Israeli mapping website shows the Qatamon house where Ghada Karmi grew up. The original house was only the ground floor. The two upper levels, bought by The New York Times in 1984, were built around the late 1970s.
Ghada Karmi
2015
In this excerpt from her book Return, the writer and physician Ghada Karmi describes visiting her childhood home in Jerusalem, which was confiscated by the Zionist state in the 1948 Nakba. The house is now "owned" by The New York Times as a residence for its Jerusalem bureau chief after it was acquired by Thomas Friedman in the early 1980s.
https://newyorkwarcrimes.co…
Let him have his say, we all need to be able to express ourselves even if sheer evil is supported by some.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "not only tolerated" years of monthly cash payments from Qatar to the Gaza Strip, up until Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, "he had encouraged them," The New York Times reported Sunday.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas…” Netanyahu said in an address to the Israeli Knesset. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank… It’s impossible to reach an agreement with them … Everyone knows this, but we control the height of the flames.”
So you mean that when the US funds, trains, arms and directs Al Qaeda aka as ISIS they are off the hook. Israel initiated war in the Middle East in the 1940s.
Iran knows the agenda of Israel and Wash. to destroy it and seize their oil in the 7 countries in 5 years plan exposed long ago. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=7+countries+in+5+years+clark&ia=web
What about all of israel's terrorism since they were created out of thin air on Palestinian land?
LOL. You tell funny lies.
Israel started the war in 1948 when it drove over 750,000 Palestinians from their land. They were barred from returning on pain of death.
Israel's 17 year long blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
In the 15 years prior to 10-7-23, Israel killed over 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
A Gazan child born in 2000 has already lived through at least six massacres (Operation Summer Rain [2006], Operation Hot Wind [2008], Operation Cast Lead [2008/09], Operation Returning Echo [2012], Operation Pillar of Defense [2012], and Operation Protective Edge [2014]), along with innumerable cross-border shootings, and the suppression of non-violent resistance like the Great March of Return.
Until the 1960s and the first wave of successful anti-colonial independence movements, Zionists were not ashamed to call their project colonialism. Established with the aim of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, their institutions from 1897 onward included the Jewish Colonization Association, the Society for the Colonization of the Land of Israel, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, and the Jewish Colonial Trust.
Death to Zionism!
Once must applaud Iran for funding a resistance to a state like Israel who has no humanity, no principles, and no right to Palestinian land post 1967. The war was initiated in 1948 at the hands of terrorist gangs the Stern and Irgun…Should Palestinians not fight for what is theirs by any means necessary since illegal squatters and the IDF are initiating terror against them daily…
Iran is threatening, attacking, and at war with a US ally. They support Hamas, which murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7. They support Hezbollah and the Houthis, who are at work with both Israel and our allies in the Sunni world.
Iran provides weapons to help Russian aggressive in Europe, and regularly holds "Death to America!" rallies. Maybe this is news to you.
Yes, how dare we fight back after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor! Clearly the US was asking for it! We should have surrendered and given them Hawaii.
Dickhead!
Sometimes war is the only way. In WW2, the Allies achieved peace only by way of war. There is no negotiation that will bring peace with an enemy that is ideologically bent on your destruction.
The US only entered ww2 when they were attacked. We did not seek it.
As for negotiations, you WILL ALWAYS negotiate with the enemy in the end … that's how wars end. Unless of course, your side simply massacres everyone in the territory first … is that the plan?
Wars may end, a ceasefire may be achieved. But if the ideology that drives the other side is based on religious edicts that are immutable, there will be no peace. I have no delusions of real peace at this point. And anyone who does has no understanding of that part of the world.
The ideology that drives Isreal is racist, genocidal colonialism. There is no compromse with that evil ideology.
The sooner Israel is no more, the betteer.
"Religious edits" such as this land was given to us by a sky God four thousand years ago? Yeah, that is a tough one.
I'm for peace and brotherhood and equal rights. If Israelis are against it, then they are on the wrong side of history and will lose, sooner or later.
Zionism has been exposed as the cancer it is. You're out of gas and time to crawl back under the rock before you get stepped on. Your continual lying doesn't fool anybody here anymore.
Scott Long@scottlong1980
Nov 5, 2023
In the 70s, historian Max Hastings interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu extensively, after the Netanyahu family recruited him to write an official biography of Bibi’s brother Yoni. Here Hastings, in his memoirs, recalls Bibi’s racism and enthusiasm for total ethnic cleansing:
False.
WW2 was a direct result of WW1, itself a folly of imperial hubris and entangling alliances.
There is nothing righteous about Israel's genocidal colonialism.
It bears no resemblance to WW2, killer.
'Killing for peace is always used to justify most wars.' But, people are finally getting a clue that a genocide is the policy in Israel.
You can say “genocide” over and over again. It’s a smart tactic. Works on people who have no idea what it means…like you
According to the UN definition: "According to the Convention, genocide is a crime that can take place both in time of war as well as in time of peace. The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part." https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide%20Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf
And how’s that been going for Israel so far ?
Without the US taxpayer, Israel would cease to exist. Whoever said ‘you will become what you hate the most.’ was right on. Israel has become the new Nazi regime and Bibi is the ‘new Hitler.’ Strange the MSM here calls everybody else that, except Bibi.
You can’t get away with lying anymore. The truth is out, and Israel will become a pariah state along with the US the cancer’s enabler. The cancer is now in stage 4.
How do you conflate “strength” with funding a genocide and unconditional support for the most vile country on the planet, something we call “treason”, as it benefits the US in no identifiable way?
With the figurehead, Netanyahu, getting more than 50 standing ovations while speaking before congress, while calling pro-Palestinians protesters, Americans, "useful idiots".
Netanyahu has said on a few occasions that the American congress is easy to manipulate.
Never forget the U.S.S. Liberty. Ever.
Congress is far more loyal to Israel than to the People of the United States.
Peace comes with diplomacy, intelligent men. That has been lacking since the administration of George W. Bush.
I think "diplomacy" and "intelligent men" were lacking well before G. W. Bush.
This has nothing to do with peace, you vile Zionist liar!
The Israeli strategy has been peace through weakness/killing civilians because it is Amalek, or some other religiosity nonsense that Israel pushes to justify itself…Go BDS.
Still drinking the Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah cocktail? You’re playing right into their hands.
Sure, shall I stand with coward Israeli colonialists who take pride in theft, mass murder? or people fighting such evil? Your side is going to lose…..
We have survived thousands of years and have outlived empires that tried to destroy us. I’m not too concerned
I am all for Judaism thriving and growing…Zionism can die by the sword since it has been a terrorist ideology since its founding.
Well since over 90% of Jews are Zionists, I guess we know where you stand.
I’ll say it again. Stop firing rockets at Israel.
Get out of Palestine…to the 67 boarders or the Zionists “deserve’ what they get. No mercy on these utter fiends…
To the ‘67 borders? Israel offered that right after the war. It was flatly rejected. But what happened to “from the river to the sea”?
Exactly where are “Palestines borders”?
If you need to ask you really should go back to sleep….
All of Palestine…the Zionists never had any real legitimate claim to what is Palestine. They were land thieves then and now.
If they’d stop tossing rockets at Israel, that would be a great start.
The resistance is reacting to unbridled terror and mass murder from the illegitimate ZDC. Cause and Effect….Israel chose this path, and will deservingly fail as it is now…
Israel and the US are both "off the rails" and are in need of a punishment that is on scale for the genocide they have perpetuated in Gaza, and the killing fields of Lebanon. If Iran can deliver with the resistance let them do so..
Israel is by U.S. law a "major non-NATO ally". They have been attacked by multiple countries, including Iran.
Countries defend their allies under attack, or they have no allies and no deterrence.
Countries do not need to aid their allies when they attack all their neighbors at once, that’s not how any of this works. When your ally is being stupid you tell them so, not just automatically join them.
So, Israel is being "stupid" because they seek to attack a military organization (Hamas) that actively seeks their destruction? And they are "stupid" to fire back at Hezbollah, which is attacking their cities? And – according to you – the non-stupid response to Iran's missile attacks is – what? Do nothing? That is a rather unique military strategy.
Yes.
Big Deal…!
Part of me must resist yawning. The rest of me is routinely reflexive. Strategic bombing aircraft vs a more-powerful/asymmetrical "enemy"? C'mon, man! Have our fruit-saladed chests/scrambled-egg hatted commanders learned nothing at all? Asked and answered.
C'mon Marcus, we are using 1950's tech (carriers and B52s) … it can't possibly fail.
“ Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people… Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid?
What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
–Aaron Bushnell, February 25 2024
REMARKABLE!!! He was too good of a person for us!!! I don't even know how he happened in this country!? Anybody has ideas!?
A true compassionate American.
I'm glad Nelson Mandela was never unhinged enough to set himself on fire during apartheid.
"The US warned Iran that if it attacked, the US wouldn’t be able to restrain Israel. 'We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back, and we won’t be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one,' a US official told Axios."
Gee, that sounds a lot like the old 'Good Cop / Bad Cop' game, with the US playing Good Cop. Like, "I don't want any harm to come to you, but my buddy over there, when he gets steamed, there's just no telling what he'll do and I can't hold him back." Said the gorilla, pointing to the capuchin monkey.
I should've read your comment before I made mine. Great minds think alike. I particularly like the "Said the gorilla, pointing to the capuchin monkey." Excellent. Be careful. I might "Biden" it. LOL
I always enjoy your wry sense of humor NA!
I enjoy yours too
This is just for our electorate that is uncomfortable with genocide. In reality, Israel has created a with-us-or-against-us situation, and we are trapped.
A classic zugzwang. Whatever decisions we make will likely be a bad one yet, we cannot avoid making decisions.
Zugzwang?!
;-}
A chess move that will worsen a player's position.
B52s are slow and certainly not stealthy…. Whom are they going to bomb with these? Probably easy targets with S300s from Iran.
So whom are they threatening? Lebanon?
They can carry heavy bombs and tactical and strategic nukes and fire from out of range …
What S300s?
I am also weapons illiterate! ;-/
me too.
I do think they are not as nimble like fighter jets because they carry heavy cargo, maybe, I don't know.
“We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back…" WAIT!? ARE WE PLAYING "GOOD COP!?" …….So obviously obvious. …We are paying good money to whoever is coming up with drivel!? …You. must. be. $hitting. me!
Yes, us and most of EU are the good cop to Israel's head breaker cops … and the citizens of the "west" swipe right and laugh at the funny kittens and puppies …
The world is not with the genocide, even the west:
PALESTINE ONLINE * @OnlinePalEng
With tears full of solidarity feelings, people emotionally reacted as they passed by a pro-Palestine protest in Oslo, Norway.
Video
https://x.com/OnlinePalEng/…
Thank you.
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https://x.com/YasasinSeriat…
Anybody else remembers the tension rising against Iran before the last elections with Trump trumpeting how he was going to destroy Iran!? I mean guys. The election season is already disgusting enough for God's sake.
For good measure, he pulled out of the JCPOA, simply because Obama agreed to it.
Exactly. Keep the agreement the same in principle, change a few insignificant words and put Trump's name on it and Trump would have been bragging to the world how he got Iran to agree to the NPT on steroids.
And Biden did not change as much as a comma on the Trump policy, he continued on Trump's path.
Out of sheer and/or morbid curiosity, HAS there been a US election season that didn't inevitably veer into "disgusting" ?
Funny 🙂
I mean, young Johnathan Kerry windsurfing was “embarrassing” more than “disgusting”, but each Presidential tilt starts off promising civility and ends up in a Ba’ath of bickering and recriminations.
Israel is a Lawless State, respects NO Law and will do as it pleases, like committing Genocide, with the HELP of the USA. Past time for Iran and all Arab, Muslim, Asian, African Nations to do the RIGHT thing, shut up and stop the Genocide. Give the Israeli Population 24 hours to leave and then destroy the Zionist infestation. Stall and Kill, helps only the Zionist Netanyahu and his Thugs. Inaction at this time, is helping the enemy.
Logic and facts works well for me…
The US needs to back off of this, immediately!
But logic and facts do not work with mad dogs on the lose.
The US HAS NO FUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT, the same is true for Israel, they are as mad as it can get, worse than Hitler, and he was bad.
Cannot argue with you at all!
Donna it is so nice, we are agreeable.
Those nations connive for their own benefit. They will not come to the rescue of Palestinians.
If the shoe were on the other foot………….
But the Israelis have made all of them their enemy equal to Palestinians, they have to fight if they do not want to end like the Palestinians, like China and Russia. Mad Netanyahu cried how terrible it is to have to fight 7 enemies at once. The mad man acted as if has nothing to do with that, he always wanted to be their friend.
”Peace train, peace train! Come take me home again!”
Another Axios report said the US warned Iran that if it attacked, the US wouldn’t be able to restrain Israel. “We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back, and we won’t be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one,” a US official told Axios.
A bald-faced lie.
Yes, it's like I can't stop my right hand from doing what it wants … sort of like Strangelove's hand:
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=dr+strangelove%27s+hand&&mid=E2EC1F01A3ECDA6BFAB6E2EC1F01A3ECDA6BFAB6&&FORM=VRDGAR
MEIN FUHRER ! I CAN WALK !
I miss Peter Sellers so.
Precisely. We could "hold them back' by denying Israel more weapons. Full stop.
More accurately, "we won't pretend to try to hold them back".
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
“Those who wax eloquent about ‘threats to our democracy’ are really worried about the threats to our bureaucracy.”
Well said
@VivekGRamaswamy !
8:58 AM · Nov 4, 2024
Truth, right there.
Targets for Iran.
I always enjoy healthy cynicism HD.
The U.S. has also deployed stealth bombers. The B-52 is good for attacking areas that do not have anti-aircraft rockets. Just a show of force, I imagine.
The stealth bombers will be used. Doppler radar can recognize them.
During the second Gulf War, I cannot remember which country it was, but one country detected the bombers coming and going.
What are they there for? Carpet bomb Gaza, Lebanon, Iran?
Sure, it is the Biden administration that is behind the lunacy, but it is a bipartisan affair to allow Israel to do what it is doing.
I cannot fathom that representatives of "the most powerful country in the world" are so afraid of that speck known as Israel that they risk a conflagration that will continue to expand.
There is also a risk of losing the hegemony of the dollar as well as trading might, if one pays attention to what transpired at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia a few days ago.
And we have no potential competent leadership to end the holocaust caused by the beastly megalomaniacs in Tel Aviv and Washington DC. With all the insane officials on the lose it looks bad for the world, neither one of the two candidates for president appears to even notice. We have no really legitimate president with a clean bill of mental health in government. How can it be explained to keep supporting the war in Ukraine, a country without a legitimate head of state, a little clown whos term is over still throwing Ukrainian men in the meat grinder for American interests and his personal wealth.
I am all for Defunding Israel!…
;-/
I absolutely agree with Israel's right to defund itself.
Plus an active war crime tribunal, with Netanyahu and Biden at the top, and all their war criminal partners with them, the deceptive, lying journalists are just as guilty and must be included and held to account.
Biden and Netanyahu and their close advisers must be insane, normal people can't do what they are doing. They beat Hitler.
They believe they will win any war, all they have to do is bomb the enemy nation to hell. That is all it takes, see Israel and the annihilation of Gaza and Lebanon, they can't lose when all they have to do is to bomb and kill women and children, the USA is good at that, remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Libya, Cambodia and Laos, Panama, and little Grenada, the bombing of the withdrawing Iraqi army after the Gulf war , and the carpet bombing of Germany like a Tag Team US and UK when they had already won the war.
Touché ole!
"B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base’s 5th Bomb Wing arrived in the US Central Command area of responsibility,"
Based on the photo that is a flying fortress. It provides a big exposure to be hit, not like drones. What planes do the Israelis use to bomb Gaza with 2000 lb. bombs?
No US war for Israel!
End the Zionist control of America!
The B-52 can be used both for targeted attacks – like JDAM bombs directed against, say, an Iranian military facility – and mass bombing attacks, directed against, say, southern Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah (and many civilians) a la Vietnam.
They're there because the US expects further escalation and is preparing to directly attack either Hezbollah or Iran or both (probably including Iraq and Yemen.)
Just another step to the inevitable Middle East war.
Watch Iranian air defenses against Israel and imagine giant B-52 evasion tactics.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/223528/VIDEO-Air-defense-systems-activated-in-Tehran
Aircraft carriers were brought home for the same reason. Iran hit an oil platform in the Mediterranean Sea and could do the same to a big ship,
US weapons are old -fashioned because much of the borrow and spend weapons program goes to buy votes in congress and students are struggling with bankster debt and have little time to invent.
Iran wants to de-escalate too. That's why "peace thru strength" is their motto?
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/04/netanyahus-imaginary-war-narrative-strategy-if-it-works-fine-if-not-no-big-deal-well-try-something-else/
Alastair Crooke
Israel is continuing to destroy through bombing and demolition homes and entire villages in Lebanon. This is not about a 'buffer zone,' it's really about the Zionist plan to annex No. Lebanon into the greater Israel project. And, what is Wash. doing? Nada! The Zionist cancer has now spread into stage 4. Check out the greater Israel maps here: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=greater+israel+maps&iax=images&ia=images So, now you see why Israel's neighbors don't like them.
Israel has no interest in annexing Lebanon. But they want to make it safe for Israelis in the north to return to their homes. Southern Lebanon was lousy with Hezbollah tunnels and arms stored in almost every home. So, too bad.
More lies. See my post on the greater Israel agenda which includes No. Lebanon. And, taking another neutral country’s land for that agenda is simply theft, which is something Israel is good at. And, never mind the people there, they must be considered ‘der untermensch’ because they are being killed along with their homes destroyed.
Well as much as I trust your sources why don’t we wait a few months to see if Israel withdraws after there is a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
They don’t? See maps of greater Israel here. See greater Israel map here and notice Lebanon. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=greater+Israel+map&iax=images&ia=images
We know what Israel wants. But "ya can't always get what ya want"
I doubt you know anything about Israel that you haven’t read on Al Jazeera
Warped people end up dying of the rage that has consumed them.
The Pentagon said the purpose of the deployment is the “protection of US citizens and forces in the Middle East, the defense of Israel, and de-escalation.”
US forces don't belong in the Middle East. Israel doesn't belong anywhere and in American lingo desolation means "let the fox guard the hen house."