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Posted on 08/01/2026 1:26:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, sent written notification to senior Pentagon officials saying that without another Navy destroyer he will be forced to choose defense of the United States “homeland” over that of Israel, said the officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the correspondence.
A U.S. defense official said Grynkewich’s notification appears consistent with past outreach to the Pentagon from the military’s top generals when they see certain risks that require Washington’s consideration. This can occur, the official said, as commanders compete for finite resources and weapons.
The Pentagon declined to comment. U.S. European Command did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment.
The general’s warning comes at a tenuous moment in the five-month conflict, as near-daily attacks have resumed following the collapse of peace talks between Washington and Tehran and the operation’s intensity has drained U.S. supplies of key defensive weapons.
The Navy has been particularly taxed, as the Trump administration has directed a blockade of Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The standoff has stymied the movement of Middle Eastern oil and other commodities through the narrow waterway, upending the global economy.
U.S. naval destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have been employed as a part of Israel’s defense for many years. The vessels, equipped with powerful radar and armed with an array of missiles, have downed missiles aimed at Israel not only by Iran, but by Houthi militants in Yemen that are equipped by Tehran.
European Command is central to this mission, as it coordinates military operations in the Mediterranean. At the same time, its forces must remain ready for any Russian incursion into territory protected by...
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Wow! With just one more boat they can defend an entire country!
I’m curious how many FReepers would elect to protect Israel over the United States if faced with the choice.
How did the Post learn this?
Canary Trap leak?
Yes, we position Aegis destroyers off of the Korean Peninsula in order to target ballistic missile threats to the U.S.
We’ve already relocated radars used to monitor for ballistic missile threats from the Korean Peninsula to the Middle East to replace systems destroyed by Iran.
Do you think Pat Buchanan would rather use US destroyers to protect the U.S. or Israel?
Next—The retired General has decided to spend a lot more time with his family. Along with MS Now panel assignments.
In before Fake News claims.
What is our exit strategy? Wait for Democrats to defund it all?
This is either bovine excrement or the General’s retirement letter.
Israel can defend Israel.
How they will do it might be unexpected but they’ll get it done.
“What is our exit strategy? Wait for Democrats to defund it all?”
Well the Dems do want to defund ALL of our military. Well, not quite all, they want to keep the part fighting Russia, since that’s their war.
“I’m curious how many FReepers would elect to protect Israel over the United States if faced with the choice.”
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A bunch.
"Unexpected" will give the green light to every other nuclear country to do the "unexpected."
This general might be speaking the plain truth.
But to be fair, I’ve never heard a general or admiral say he has all that he needs.
I'm curious as to how many Jew-haters we have now on Free Republic.
The right does not need to be associated with Jew-hatred. The left already calls us "Nazis", even though "Nazi" means "national socialism."
This story was obviously fabricated to feed into the Jew Hatred we are seeing all over the internet nowadays.
ONE Navy destroyer?????????????????????
LOL
“Israel can defend Israel.
How they will do it might be unexpected but they’ll get it done.”
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Why would you believe that? They’ve never done so before. Every military action by Israel has needed US backup.
How many countries on earth have been forbidden by their own laws to activate their own military to protect their own citizens against all enemies foreign and domestic? How many of those countries have been infected by the dual disease over the course of their history of being forced to engage only in conflicts which have benefited a foreign power on foreign soil? I can think of only one which fits both descriptions.
That’s for sharing with the world.
You can criticize Great Britain without being a Limey-hater, you can criticize France without being a Frog-hater, you can criticize Germany without being a Kraut-hater, you can criticize America without being a Yank-hater, you can criticize Australia without being an Oz-hater, you can criticize Belgium without being a Waffle-hater, but if you criticize Israel you are a Jew-hater.
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