US is moving around 9,000 troops aboard ships to Middle East as Trump weighs new attacks on Iran
A group of ships en route to Middle East carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines, bringing US naval presence to unusually high number of more than 20,000 sailors and Marines and hundreds of aircraft.
The US military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a US official has said. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon.
Trump also said on Thursday that early indications suggest that Iran is linked to the co-pilot who stabbed his captain and tried to crash an Israel-bound flight on Wednesday. (Bullshit)
The group of ships now en route to the Middle East together carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines.
It includes the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, which recently deployed with the cruiser USS Chosin, and the USS Makin Island amphibious readiness group, which includes the USS John P. Murtha and USS Anchorage amphibious landing ships.
It could mean that three carriers are in the region as early as the end of October, according to the US official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.
Given the personnel already in place in the Middle East, the move would bring the US naval presence to an unusually high number of more than 20,000 sailors and Marines and hundreds of aircraft.
an unusually high number of more than 20,000 sailors and Marines and hundreds of aircraft.
Trump, in a Time magazine interview published on Thursday, also raised the prospects of new strikes, saying it is “possible” that he will ramp up attacking Iran after the November 3 elections in the United States.
When pressed, Trump said he could not go further in detailing his strategy.
“I can’t tell you that because look, you know, you’re asking, where are you going to bomb?” Trump said.
Asked if the increasingly unpopular war would threaten Republican Party chances in November, Trump at first responded, “It’s possible.” But then he added, “It should help, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”
Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapon- which is why Usrael struck the nation…
From earlier-
Clearly the US is unprepared to relinquish their hegemony- Not willingly anyway- Dangerous times.
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Two posts today… The US walks away..
And the US piles in more troops
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