Is this what Iran has been patiently waiting for?Report: US sent...

Is this what Iran has been patiently waiting for?

Report: US sent message that ... aircraft carriers can’t stay indefinitely

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-us-sent-message-that-gallant-shouldnt-be-fired-aircraft-carriers-cant-stay-indefinitely/

Posted by: librul | Sep 6 2024 22:05 utc | 119

I see librul is just ahead of me but ZH has a posting up with the title

US Warns Israel That Carriers Can't Stay Indefinitely

the quote

The Pentagon giveth and the Pentagon taketh away. According to Israeli media, the Netanyahu has been put on notice that US warships could soon be ordered home and that they can't stay in eastern Mediterranean waters indefinitely to protect Israel.

Israeli media is reporting Friday that with regards to a potential wider all-out regional war and Iranian attack, a message was sent that tensions need to be reduced at some stage because "the US aircraft carriers will not be able to stay in the area forever."

Currently no less than two air craft carriers — the Theodore Roosevelt and the Abraham Lincoln — along with accompanying warships are in Mideast regional waters. They were deployed there following threats from Iran weeks ago.

The whole region braced for an Iranian response to the Israeli killing of Hamas leader outside Tehran Ismail Haniyeh on July 31st. The US moved warships closer to Israel in anticipation that the US would help shootdown potential inbound Iranian ballistic missiles and drones.

Apparently the guided-missile submarine Georgia, which can fire cruise missiles and transport Navy SEAL commandos, is also in the region.

Did Iran back off its threat for a major attack? It appears so, or else Tehran is just slow-playing the response, anticipating that the Pentagon will eventually withdraw its naval assets and that a willingness to defend Israel will subside.

All of this comes at a moment of rare US-Israel tensions, especially in the wake of Prime Minister Netanyahu declaring that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal with Hamas are essentially dead.

This is what you get when you attempt to project Might-Makes-Right in an unsustainable manner.

Iran, just like Russia is playing the long game against empire and watching empire consume itself of military might.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 6 2024 22:16 utc