[JonPreston]

“Do the name Gulf of Tonkin ring a bell?”

[Leaning Right]

I get that the sea lanes must remain open. I also get that failed leaders (like Biden) like to start wars to distract the populace. So a Gulf of Tonkin event is a real possibility.

[hardspunned]

People need to remember what we’ve been told. Once the Russians win in Ukraine (check), the revanchist Soviet Union will be on the march. We need these ships in the Baltic in order to save Europe.

[srmanuel]

I posted about this yesterday, we have an election next year, 2024 is only a few days away and Biden is struggling in the polls, it would a perfect justification to get into a full-scale war with Iran if a US Navy ship was severely damaged or sunk taking a large number of Americans with it.

You can never underestimate what desperate things the Democrats combined with the Military Industrial Complex will resort to in order to stay in power.

[srmanuel]

I posted about this yesterday, we have an election next year, 2024 is only a few days away and Biden is struggling in the polls, it would a perfect justification to get into a full-scale war with Iran if a US Navy ship was severely damaged or sunk taking a large number of Americans with it.

You can never underestimate what desperate things the Democrats combined with the Military Industrial Complex will resort to in order to stay in power.

[Wuli]

An orchestrated distraction from something else about to happen somewhere else in the world? Maybe.

[rmlew]

“Do the name Gulf of Tonkin ring a bell?”
Sure, but that's not what is going on here. The Biden administration desperately wants a deal with Iran. They even delisted the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist organization. If the goal had been to start a warr we already have a casus belli thanks to the attacks on our destroyers. Biden could return the Houthis to the terror list and immediately launch strikes on them whenever he wants. He doesn't want to