The White House claims the deployments are meant to ease tensions but US military support has only emboldened Israel to escalate
The US is sending more warships and additional fighter jets to the Middle East as part of a deployment that’s “entirely focused on defending Israel,” a White House official said Sunday.
The Pentagon announced Friday that it’s sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which has been operating in the Middle East. The US is also sending additional US Navy cruisers and destroyers and bolstering its land-based missile defense systems in the region.
A Pentagon official told Air & Space Forces Magazine that a US Air Force squadron of F-22 Raptor fighters jets is also headed to the region.
The US and Israel are expecting a major attack from Iran and its allies in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran and a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut.
White House Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer claimed the purpose of the new military deployments was to reduce tensions in the region even though US military support has only emboldened Israel to escalate.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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